The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Supreme Court gives go-ahead for gay marraige

Henry,

From what I understand on this matter in regard to the Supreme Court ruling, it has "no teeth", i.e., it is not binding because it isn't "law". In other words, the few Provinces who don't have "Gay Marriage" laws (I think there are only 3 that don't out of the 10) it doesn't apply. To make Gay Marriages the "law", i.e., every Province, region, city and town MUST allow and recognize and them and the relevant government agents who perform marriages cannot refuse to marry Gays, it has to come from the Legislature. In other words, like the U.S., the judicial branch of the government cannot create laws, although too often they have done exactly that with their rulings, <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" /> but rather bills are created and must pass through the legislative branch, which if passed become law and to which the courts then must uphold.

Sadly, I doubt you will find many churches, pastors or even professing christians in Canada raising much of a protest over this never mind refusing to abide by ANY ruling that would force them to accept Gay marriages. They really need to change the national anthem to "Oh Gomorrah"