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wow....I had noticed that the Canadian Judicial system was seemingly ignoring laws, but I did not know it was so widely acknowledged.

I think that in the US, a new constitutional amendment needs to be in place that stiffens the requirements of the courts so that this does not happen here and we can squelch the activism that does happen.

As Canada moves to legalize same-sex marriage across the nation, these aforementioned examples of the Canadian judiciary suppressing the right to act upon one’s religious conviction now loom in the mind of every Canadian religious and social conservative. Again, Catholic Insight finds itself raising a number of troubling questions at the forefront of the debate. When asked about his stance on same-sex marriage, the Canadian Prime Minister reportedly replied: “It is religion that is the problem.” And while the Prime Minister has subsequently reassured religious entities in Canada that they will be exempt under proposed federal legislation recognizing same-sex marriage, the question remains “for how long?”

As the aforementioned cases show, Canada’s current judicial culture basically upholds a doctrine of religious freedom in which an individual possesses the right to believe what he wants, so long as this belief is never communicated in public or put into practice.

Religious intolerance bump.

The troubles began when Pierre Elliot Trudeau helped to abolish parliamentary supremacy by foisting an American style Charter Of Rights upon Canada. Now all the power is with unelected courts rather than with a Parliament directly accountable to the electorate. How democratic is that? There was no thought of gay marriage under Canada's old doctrine since a government that voted to impose it would have lost the next election. Today, the government just meekly follows the lead of the courts.