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SASKATOON (CP) - Saskatchewan became the seventh Canadian jurisdiction to allow same-sex marriages Friday after a judge ruled the current federal law on the subject unconstitutional. In a five-page ruling, Justice Donna Wilson sided with courts in five other provinces and one territory, saying existing marriage laws discriminate against gay couples. "The common-law definition of marriage for civil purposes is declared to be 'the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others,' " Wilson wrote. The Saskatchewan ruling came after five gay couples went to court seeking the right to wed. At least one couple have said...

<p>Another rank judicial usurpation impends that will prohibit the death penalty for gruesome homicides perpetrated by unrepentant 17-year-olds, like sniper Lee Malvo. Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose votes and opinions bespeak political compromise and elite orthodoxies, will probably cast the deciding vote in State ex rel. Simmons vs. Roper to ban the practice as unconstitutionally cruel and unusual. There may be better examples of idiosyncratic policy views masquerading as law, but if there are, they do not readily come to mind.</p>