According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the number of infertile married couples of childbearing age in Canada was 2.1 million. ... When Parliament adopted the Canadian Human Rights Act, and the Charter, it was recognized that people believe in equal treatment under the law. ... On June 10, the high court of Ontario, ruled that the exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage infringes human dignity, harms families, and violates the constitution. ...

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In the USA and Canada, all citizens are given equal rights by the very documents that make these countries what they are. ... When a country basis their law making decisions on a religious group's opinions of how things should be, what things are right, and what things should be deemed wrong, they are in its simplest forms violating the constitution. ... Many other movements are taking place in both the US and Canada that will have a large effect on the gay and lesbian movement for equality. ...

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The main argument here is if under the constitution all people are allowed to marry or only men and women. ... Many will argue that because same sex marriage was not originally written into the constitution that it has no place to be disputed. ... I also have and uncle who decided to move to Canada because the government is much more accepting there. ... They first point to the constitution and say that it does not explicitly state gay marriage is legal knowing full well that amendments are made to laws all the time. ...

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The purpose of this paper is to defend the rights of homosexual couples to marry, have children, and enjoy the same rights that the constitution states for heterosexual couples. ... As of May 21, 2013, 13 states and 13 countries such as Vermont, Connecticut, Sweden, Canada, and South Africa allow same sex couples to be legally married. ... Same-sex marriage became a reality in the United States in 2004 in the wake of a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that it was required under the equal protection clause of the state's Constitution (Dematteis/Reuters, 2012). ...

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Furthermore, recent studies done by the Canadian Psychological Association have shown barely any difference in sexual preference or in "psychosocial development" for children of same-sex parents.# Rather than conclude that gay parents nurture homosexuality in their children, it should be expected that parents, whether gay or straight, nurture their children. ... However the use of the word sacrament automatically includes the notion of a lingering Christianity that should not be attached to the constitution in any way: "I always thought that freedom of religion implied the right to freedom f...

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