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Homosexual "progress" in Canada. (Insider Report).(Marc Hall goes to the prom with his boyfriend)(Brief Article)
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, a 17-year-old with spiky 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 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 ...
- Marc Hall saga over.(Canada)(Durham Catholic District School Board)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Cauchi, Geoffrey October 1, 2005 700+ words
...readers of C.I. will recall the Marc Hall case [see Geoffrey F. Cauchi, "A Catholic Lawyer Takes a Look at the Marc Hall Case," July/August and September...ultimately issued an order permitting Marc Hall to discontinue his action against...
- From David Dooley re Marc Hall. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight October 1, 2002 700+ words
The article "Marc Hall" in the July/August issue described...dignity; in fact, they have treated Marc Hall with more consideration than he deserved...the way to the Supreme Court and that Marc Hall will win. We may ask why the Catholic...
- A Catholic lawyer takes another look at the Marc Hall case.
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Cauchi, Geoff September 1, 2003 700+ words
...in intervening in the case between Marc Hall and the Durham Catholic school Board...Meagher used to justify refusing Marc Hall's request, it seems to me that...lacking jurisdiction to (a) hear the Marc Hall case; and/or (b) order an interim...
- "Marc Hall" case: implications.(Ontario Supreme Court rules gay student and...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Valk, Alphonse de July 1, 2002 700+ words
...with scorn and incomprehension. Marc Hall, too, stomped on this concept by...point that OECTA wanted to make about Marc Hall in the hearings was that the prohibition...more serious blow to the rights of Hall than giving permission would be to...
- Dancing king.(Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story)(DVD)(Video Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Hays, Matthew May 10, 2005 700+ words
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story * Written by Kent Staines * Directed...to come from Canada. Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story recounts the true story of a small...landmark ruling in Canadian law, with Hall's lawyer successfully arguing that...
- From Brian Taylor re Marc Hall and anti-homophobia seminars.(Letters To The...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Taylor, Brian November 1, 2003 700+ words
Geoff Cauchi's splendid paper on the Marc Hall case (C.I., July-September 2003) and Fr. McManamy...also asserts the primacy of parents in education. Marc Hall The Education Act of Ontario, specifying what tax dollars...
- A Catholic lawyer takes a look at the Marc Hall case.
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight Cauchi, Geoff July 1, 2003 700+ words
...Witness, in Toronto, on May 17, 2003. Editor In 2002, Marc Hall was a graduating student at a high school in Oshawa, Ontario...present at the function. Well in advance of the prom, Marc Hall sought the permission of the principal to bring his "gay...
- All dressed up, no place to go? (Canada).(Canadian high school senior Marc Hall...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Hays, Matthew May 14, 2002 700+ words
Marc Hall wants what every high school senior wants...that the 17-year-old attends have barred Hall from going to his prom if he brings his boyfriend as his date. On April 11, Hall sued the principal and the school board...