Canadian Court force Christian marriage commissioners to marry Homosexuals
Image via Wikipedia The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal declared this morning that proposed legislative amendments that would have allowed Saskatchewan ’s marriage commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages” on religious grounds are unconstitutional. The Saskatchewan government had proposed two potential legislative options to deal with situations where some marriage commissioners were called before the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission or the Courts for refusing to perform same-sex “marriages”: one amendment would have permitted marriage commissioners appointed before November 5, 2004 to refuse to solemnize a marriage contrary to their religious beliefs, and a second would have allowed any marriage commissioner, no matter when they were appointed, the same right. The court said that its decision was based on section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which prohibits discrimination based on characteristics such as race and sex. Though the Charter makes ...