Ontario Court Refuses Appeal of Three-Parent Case

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | September 14, 2007 | Hilary White

[monomaniac]

Ontario Court Refuses Appeal of Three-Parent Case

By Hilary White

TORONTO, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has linked the recently released statistics on the decline of legal marriage in Canada to the so-called Three Parent case. In that case an Ontario judge ruled that a five-year-old child was the legal offspring of the father, biological mother and the mother's lesbian partner.

The court has refused to hear any appeal of the 2006 case which means that in Ontario, not only the legal institution of marriage but the biological nature of the family has been overturned by the courts.

League President Phil Horgan commented today that the Alliance for Marriage and Family, a coalition of groups fighting to restore the traditional family unit as the legal norm in Canada, was refused leave by the court to appeal the case.

"We find it very unfortunate that the children's rights issues raised by that case will not be heard on appeal. An issue which should have been addressed by legislatures now remains a matter of judicial intervention," said Mr. Horgan.

In the 2006 case, the Ontario Court of Appeals agreed with a 2003 lower court ruling that the law cannot be read to recognize more than two persons as parents by birth or adoption. However, the Court of Appeal overturned the lower court finding and recognized the third parent through the court's "parens patriae" jurisdiction that traditionally allowed courts to act when the child's safety was at risk, or when, existing legislation did not address the situation before the court.

Speaking at the time of the decision, Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), said, "This ruling clearly shows the extent to which the homosexual activists will pursue their agenda regardless of the welfare of children."

[Jeff Head]

They can say or write whatever they want...but any person with any intelligence, with any common sense, and with any shred of decency knows that no child is the offspring of three individual of any mix. A child is the offspring of the sperm of a man, and the egg of a woman.

They may make such ludricrous rulings...but they have no bearing on the facts. A lesbian "partner" cannot couple with, either physically or in the lab, another woman to produce a human child no more than two me could do the same.

It is sick that any nation even has to even have such a discussion and IMHO, the Judges that made this ruling are in need of serious mental help and have no place on any bench...save a physc bench perhaps.

[tbw2]

Are child raising decisions made by a majority vote, thus allowing the women to override the father? Or, conversely, the biological parents to override the nonbiological lesbian?
If visitation is already a mess when there are two households, what do you do when there are three different “parents” in three different households?

[massgopguy]

So, the Judge doesn’t know where babies come from does he?