Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law

LifeSiteNews ^ | February 25, 2005 | LifeSiteNews

[DBeers]

“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law
Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documents

Toronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral.

No longer can a married couple be referred to as “husband and wife” or “man and woman”. The terms “Widow” and “widower” are also struck from government statutes. Attorney General Michael Bryant stated, on introducing the bill, "Currently, the statutes offend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms".

Bryant conitnued, "The bill removes references to gender and gender-specific language from Ontario definitions of spousal terms and uses one term, 'spouse', to include opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples who are married or who live together in conjugal relationships outside of marriage."

Considering the massive size and pervasiveness of government, this is certain to gradually lead to a general devaluation of marriage throughout the province – all for the purpose of imposing “equality” for that tiny number of same-sex couples that chooses to “marry”, taking advantage of activist judge imposed re-definition of marriage.

“Spouse” is redefined in the new law to concur with the re-definition of “marriage” imposed by activist judges, but not yet passed in the federal parliament, that now includes same-sex couples.

A perusal of the bill shows substitutions for previously used spousal terms in numerous places throughout 73 Ontario Statutes as follows:

“Widows”, widowers” replaced by “surviving spouses”
“A person of the opposite sex” replaced by “a person”
“Wives, husbands” replaced by “spouses”
“Two persons of the opposite sex” replaced by “two persons”
“The wife or husband” replaced by “spouse”
“A husband or wife” replaced by “spouse”
“The husband and wife” replaced by “the spouses”
“A man and a woman” replaced by “two persons”
“Husband and wife” replaced by “spouses”
“Cohabited as man and wife” replaced by “cohabited as a married couple”
“Same-sex partner” replaced by “spouse”

Following is the list of Statutes affected by the marriage redefinition language requirements:

Absentees Act
Accumulations Act
Assessment Act
Business Corporations Act
Change of Name Act
Charitable Institutions Act
Child and Family Services Act
Children's Law Reform Act
City of Toronto Act, 1997 (No. 2)
Commercial Tenancies Act
Compensation for Victims of Crime Act
Consumer Reporting Act
Conveyancing and Law of Property Act
Co-operative Corporations Act
Coroners Act
Corporations Act
Courts of Justice Act
Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires Act, 1994
Declarations of Death Act, 2002
Domestic Violence Protection Act, 2000
Education Act
Election Act
Employment Standards Act, 2000
Estates Act
Evidence Act
Execution Act
Family Law Act
Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act, 1996
Fuel Tax Act
Gasoline Tax Act
Homes for the Aged and Rest Homes Act
Human Rights Code
Solemnization of marriage by religious officials
Income Tax Act
Independent Health Facilities Act
Insurance Act
Land Transfer Tax Act
Legislative Assembly Act
Loan and Trust Corporations Act
Marriage Act
Members' Integrity Act, 1994
Mental Hospitals Act
Mortgages Act
MPPs Pension Act, 1996
Municipal Act, 2001
Municipal Conflict of Interest Act
Municipal Health Services Act
Northern Services Boards Act
Nursing Homes Act
Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997
Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998
Ontario Home Ownership Savings Plan Act
Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System Act
Ontario Works Act, 1997
Partnerships Act
Pension Benefits Act
Perpetuities Act
Police Services Act
Prohibiting Profiting from Recounting Crimes Act, 2002
Public Libraries Act
Public Service Pension Act
Retail Sales Tax Act
SARS Assistance and Recovery Strategy Act, 2003
Securities Act
Substitute Decisions Act, 1992
Succession Law Reform Act
Tenant Protection Act, 1997
Tobacco Tax Act
Toronto Islands Residential Community Stewardship Act, 1993
Trillium Gift of Life Network Act
Trustee Act
Victims' Bill of Rights, 1995
Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997

See Ontario Passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill - All Party Collusion to Avoid Accountability Succeeds http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022408.html

See the complete legislation http://www.ontla.on.ca/documents/Bills/38_Parliament/Session1/b171_e.htm

[i_dont_chat]

You said:
You know - it will be an interesting sight to see how long a society can last that discards the basic understanding of marriage and the family on the trash heap of history. Canada's spiraling down the road of social death. Its simply a matter of time.


Yep. I think we can stick a fork in Canada. She's done!

When will the fat lady sing? Ooooooops, when will the fat person sing?

i_dont_chat

[thombo]

Canada is moving closer and closer to the abyss.This cannot be the will of the majority of Canadians.

[hobbes1]

WTF?????????????

[fortunecookie]

Oooh, yeah. I guess Hallmark and their competitors are salivating at grabbing this new market. There could be some initial price cuts and sales! And the more nebulous the better. Throw away those Thesaurus'. Get rid of 'Word', sorry Microsoft. Can't have any pesky adjectives offending people...

[Argh]

Infantilism on the part of the Ontario Liberals.

[hobbes1]

Funny how true that sentence is even with the word Ontario removed... LOL.

[Argh]

Absolutely!!

[DBeers]

If no more Mr. & Mrs. -what will the new politically correct title be? M. or S.?

[Wallace T.]

It is hard to imagine how the state governments of California, Massachusetts, and New York can appear relatively reasonable until you consider what the provincial government of Ontario has done in this matter. If such events ever occur in the United States, it will probably be by judicial fiat rather than acts of the legislatures or Congress.

If only the New York militia had crossed over into Canada during the War of 1812 to support the U.S. Army, we might have won the engagements against British forces on Canadian soil and annexed what would later become the Dominion of Canada.

[OXENinFLA]

Have you gotten your 10th edition Newspeak dictionary?

[MD_Willington_1976]

mangina's???

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Next on the list is: age neutral, spouse limit neutral, family neutral, species nutral,etc.

If you want on/off the ping list see my profile page.

[eastsider]

So Catholic priests are supposed to say, By the power invested in me by Province of Quebec, I now pronounce you spouses? No way.

[eastsider]

I meant Province of Ontario ...

[Grampa Dave]

Surely, this is a Onion satire piece on Canada, heh?!

[EdReform]

BTTT

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What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda

Myth and Reality about Homosexuality--Sexual Orientation Section, Guide to Family Issues"

[Halls]

yeah, now bridal gowns will be called wedding gowns and bachelor or bachelorette will be called single person. Oh, this is actually pretty darn funny! These new laws are getting stupider and stupider!! Glad I don't live in Canada!

[vaudine]

Does this law stand for ALL of Canada? I just do not understand how the Canadian people can sit still for this.

vaudine

[gidget7]

""In other words, voters have no idea how their representatives voted, and this was done on purpose.""





Yup, and here, it's the judges doing it.

Can you imagine the cost of changing all the paperwork to reflect this PC BS? Can you imagine not being allowed to call your wife your wife, she is now just a person? Or your husband, if you are a wife? This is being thrown around in MA, by the way, they were trying to replace "bride and groom" in marriage ceremonies.

Proud American in CA Indeed!!! Way to deny the rights of all truly married couples everywhere! These PC people will only be satisfied when the entire population of the world is at risk for death by AIDS

[gidget7]

""Will the new protection against discrimination mean that one's poor granny, recovering from an illness, will now have a gender neutral roommate who in a previous administration might have been 'labelled' male sex offender? What a Pandora's box they've opened.""




This box has opened already, right here. In many towns, ordinances are in place for unisex bathrooms, and transgender/transexual/gender neutral people (twisted sick and very confused people in other words) can use whichever restroom they feel more comfortable. So your wife, daughter Mom could use a public restroom, and walk right into a crossdressing male, who is "more comfortable in the ladies room. This.......in AMERICA!!!!!!