Posted on 02/28/2005 7:41:38 AM PST by 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
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
Canada is moving closer and closer to the abyss.This cannot be the will of the majority of Canadians.
WTF?????????????
Infantilism on the part of the Ontario Liberals.
Funny how true that sentence is even with the word Ontario removed... LOL.
Absolutely!!
If no more Mr. & Mrs. -what will the new politically correct title be? M. or S.?
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.
mangina's???
Next on the list is: age neutral, spouse limit neutral, family neutral, species nutral,etc.
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So Catholic priests are supposed to say, By the power invested in me by Province of Quebec, I now pronounce you spouses? No way.
I meant Province of Ontario ...
Surely, this is a Onion satire piece on Canada, heh?!
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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!
Does this law stand for ALL of Canada? I just do not understand how the Canadian people can sit still for this.
vaudine
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