At 02:43 PM 7/24/2003 -0400 Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
>I do agree that the laws permitting or restricting marriage should be
>passed by elected officials rather than appointed ones. However, the
>courts have there part to play. With such thorny issues, legislators
>have the bad habit of looking the other way and ignoring them. Ontario's
>courts have made a decision that has prompted the federal governement to
>write and pass a bill on the issue.
In my mind, this is a foruitious gamble on the Court's part.... if the
federal government had failed to legitimze the Court's decision, however, I
think that there would have been some serious unintended negative
consequences. Witness our Congress' failure to legitimize the Roe vs.
Wade decision.
JDG
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