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The University of British Columbia ’s Education Faculty has partnered with a homosexual advocacy group to train all of its faculty in LGBT “inclusion,” with hopes to take the program to the rest of the university faculties. DailyXtra reported last week: “Starting in September 2016, every faculty member, staff person and student in UBC’s Faculty of Education will get training on every level: from bathrooms to teacher-training to policy inclusion and climate within the faculty, all the way to the dean, says the faculty’s senior associate dean , Mary K Bryson.” The rest of UBC, Bryson adds, will gradually follow her school through the process to “create and maintain an LGB/T2/Q inclusive curriculum, culture, work place, and learning environment.” Constitutional lawyer John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms warns that the program could violate faculty or staff employment rights, if people are required to subscribe to beliefs or attitudes. “As a gener...

Will same-sex marriage cause harm to opposite-sex marriage? It’s one of the most enduring questions surrounding state and national legal decisions about marriage. But the question itself is empirically unanswerable any time soon. We are arguably years away from gathering quality longitudinal, nationally representative data on the matter. And even then, assessing—let alone agreeing upon—causation will remain difficult. Same-sex marriage may, after all, be a later-stage symptom of the general deinstitutionalization of marriage rather than, as many assert, a cause of it. So the question remains less an empirical one than a theoretical one at present. And yet we can build plausible hypotheses about the broader influence of same-sex marriage by looking around the neighborhood—that is, at what we already know about gay and straight relationships, about what’s happening to marriage, the mating market, and how institutions change. In the simplest sense, of course, same-sex...