Groups Aim to Reverse Ruling for Gay Marriage
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OTTAWA — A coalition of religious groups is going to the Supreme Court of Canada in hopes of reversing an Ontario court’s redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples.
The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops, together with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the Islamic Society of North America and the Catholic Civil Rights League, have asked the Supreme Court for leave to appeal the appellate court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to obtain marriage licenses.
The Ontario court ruled that the traditional definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman was unconstitutional. Similar decisions have been handed down recently by courts in British Columbia and Quebec, but they gave governments a year to implement the necessary changes.
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