Ian Scott's legacies.Toronto -- Ian Scott
Ian Gilmour Scott, OC (b. July 13 1934, Ottawa - d. October 10 2006, Toronto) was a former politician in the province of Ontario, Canada. , Ontario Attorney-General from 1984-1989, died in Toronto at age 72. He was given a Catholic funeral at St. Michael's Cathedral on October 13, 2006. Scott has several legacies. One is that he helped bring about full-funding for Catholic Schools in Ontario by 1986. A second legacy is that he extended support in the 1980's to Morgentaler's illegal abortion mill at Harbord Street, Toronto, an affair that cost the lives of many babies, the City of Toronto $1 million a year for 24-hour police protection; and immeasurably strengthened the abortionist's legal case before the Supreme Court. A third legacy was the legal protection and promotion of homosexual rights and benefits including the addition of the (undefined) concept of sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. to Ontario's Human Rights legislation. What is of particular note is that Scott was an active homosexual while being Attorney-General, a fact which he kept secret so as to have more freedom to change legislation in favour of his predilection. He deliberately deceived persons such as Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, CC (March 1, 1912 - April 6, 2003) was the Archbishop of Toronto. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was ordained as a priest in Montreal in 1937. He was Bishop of London, Ontario from 1964 to 1978, when he was appointed Archbishop of Toronto. whom he told he was pro-life while writing a constituent that he was pro-abortion. Getting caught in his own web of duplicity DUPLICITY, pleading. Duplicity of pleading consists in multiplicity of distinct matter to one and the same thing, whereunto several answers are required. Duplicity may occur in one and the same pleading. , Scott addressed the Catholic Lawyers Guild on the subject of St. Thomas More, whom he portrayed as a model for himself. In the Ontario legislature he took the stand that his (distorted) views on abortion and sodomy sodomy Noncoital carnal copulation. Sodomy is a crime in some jurisdictions. Some sodomy laws, particularly in Middle Eastern countries and those jurisdictions observing Shari'ah law, provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the were actually all right with the Church, a position which in recent years has found many imitators. This is what he said: "We must regard moral questions as personal matters ... I say that particularly as a Roman Catholic ... I do not believed that in a pluralistic society, no matter how important our own moral values are, no matter how firmly we hold to them and no matter how they regulate every aspect of our lives, we can permit this Legislature to enact the moral values of anybody, no matter how firmly they are held." The funeral Mass was preceded by a 15-minute eulogy by the non-Catholic Chief Justice of Ontario, Roy McMurtry, the very one who in June 2003 (then as a justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal The Court of Appeal for Ontario (frequently referred to as Ontario Court of Appeal) is headquartered in downtown Toronto, in historic Osgoode Hall. The Court is composed of 22 judges who hear over 1 500 appeals each year, on issues of private law, constitutional ) ruled that same-sex 'marriage' is a 'right,' and the traditional definition of marriage is unconstitutional. (Edit: Needless to say, moral questions are not just personal convictions; and the pluralistic society may not overrule The refusal by a judge to sustain an objection set forth by an attorney during a trial, such as an objection to a particular question posed to a witness. To make void, annul, supersede, or reject through a subsequent decision or action. the natural moral law.) |
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