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Judge Rivard imposes his opinion.


Toronto -- Judicial activism manifested itself again on June 6, 2006, when Ontario Superior Court of Justice Paul Rivard ruled birth registry provisions of the Vital Statistics vital statistics, primarily records of the number of births and deaths in a population. Other factors, such as number of marriages and causes of death, by age groups, are regularly included. From these records can be computed birthrates and death (or mortality) rates from which trends are determined. The earliest known system of vital statistics was in China. In England the clergy was required as early as the 16th cent. Act "discriminate" against lesbian "co-mothers" on the basis of sex, and infringe their "right to equality" under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Judge Rivard gave the Ontario government 12 months to change the law that today prevents both partners in a lesbian relationship from being registered as parents.

He also said the requirement to list only natural parents causes lesbian couples unjustified "pain and hardship" and would leave the impression that "there is something wrong or unnatural about their families."

Lawyers representing the women, feminists Martha McCarthy and Joanna Radbord, said the ruling represents a last frontier for the homosexual agenda. The case involves an application by four lesbian couples who conceived children through anonymous sperm donors. Rivard's ruling conflicts with a decision by a London, ON judge who refused to make a similar finding in a case involving two lesbian mothers and a father. The Ontario Court of Appeal is scheduled to hear an appeal of that decision in September (LifeSiteNews.com, June 7, 2006; Tor. Star, June 7, 2006).
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