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Homosexual "progress" in Canada. (Insider Report).


In another triumph for so-called social justice, a Canadian judge ordered a Catholic High School to allow a 17-year-old boy to bring his homosexual boyfriend to the school prom.

Marc Hall For the baseball player, see .
Marc Hall (born 1984) is a Canadian man whose legal fight to bring a same-sex date to his high school prom made Canadian and international headlines in 2002. Court Case
Marc Hall v.
, a 17-year-old with spiky spik·y  
adj. spik·i·er, spik·i·est
1. Having one or more projecting sharp points.

2. Grouchy or cross in temperament.



spik
 bright blue hair, "took his school board to court after officials said he could not bring his 21-year-old boyfriend to the dance." Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert McKinnon issued an injunction permitting the pair to attend the prom, pending a trial to decide the legal issues of the case.

Officials at the school, located in Oshawa, a Toronto suburb, sensibly maintain that they should be permitted to run the school according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. "The exercise of a homosexual lifestyle involving romantic activities such as dating is not consistent with Catholic beliefs and values," observed school board official Mary Ann Martin at a news conference. "It is something we simply cannot condone condone v. 1) to forgive, support, and/or overlook moral or legal failures of another without protest, with the result that it appears that such breaches of moral or legal duties are acceptable.  or promote."

Hall and his allies claim that by insisting on upholding traditional Catholic values, school authorities violated vi·o·late  
tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates
1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example).

2. To assault (a person) sexually.

3.
 the young homosexual's "right" not to have his feelings hurt. According to Hall, he and his boyfriend, Jean-Paul Drummond, felt that "we weren't worth anything to anyone" after they were told they couldn't attend the prom.

Little noticed in the ample press coverage is that the "relationship" between 17-year-old Hall and 21-year-old Drummond could involve sex between a minor and an adult: Although Hall is above Canada's legal age of consent, he is still a legal minor. So in addition to setting a precedent for breaking a religious institution to the saddle of the state, Hall's case has interesting implications for the pedophile pedophile Forensic psychiatry A person with pedophilia; there are an estimated 500,000 pedophiles in the world. See Child prostitution, Megan's law, Pedophilia.  agenda as well.
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Title Annotation:Marc Hall goes to the prom with his boyfriend
Publication:The New American
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Jun 3, 2002
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