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Shelly Pickering thinks it is unfair that her husband's extramarital affair with a man doesn't legally count as adultery. So today, she's heading to court in Vancouver to challenge the law. The 44-year-old Vancouver resident had been married nearly 17 years when, in October of 2004, she discovered her husband was having an affair with a younger man. She and her husband separated immediately and she filed for divorce two months later, seeking an immediate end to their union. Canada's Divorce Act allows for a no-fault divorce after a one-year separation, on grounds of marital breakdown. It also allows for...

The famous and historic Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto has joined a growing number of Canadian Hotels to start offering what are know as "Pride Packages" to attract gay clientele. In a sign of changing times, "Romance" or "Honeymoon" or "Family Vacation" packages meant to attract recently married (heterosexual) couples or young families are now being replaced by explicit invitations to gay "couples". A recent press release by the Sutton Place Hotel reads: The Sutton Place Hotel’s “Pride Package” is the perfect choice for leisure travellers seeking luxury accommodation just steps away from the city’s Gay Pride Parade Route. Toronto’s...

Canada Legalizes Gay Marriage Posted: July 20, 2005 at 3:10 p.m. Updated: July 20, 2005 at 3:15 p.m. TORONTO (AP) -- Canada legalized gay marriage Wednesday, becoming the world's fourth nation to grant full legal rights to same-sex couples. Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin signed the legislation making it law, hours after it was approved by the Senate late Tuesday night despite strong opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders. The bill grants same-sex couples legal rights equal to those in traditional unions between a man and a woman, something already legal in eight of Canada's 10 provinces and in...

OTTAWA, July 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Sources in the parliament have revealed to LifeSiteNews.com that Liberal Senators have received a letter ordering them to be present for the vote on the same-sex 'marriage' bill C-38 and to vote in favour of it. The source indicated that the letter was followed up with direct phone calls to Senators. "I have never seen this degree of instruction and pressure," said one source. A source in the Senate confirmed the 'whipped' vote noting that going against the Liberal Governments expressed wishes could result in loss of perks and future opportunities. Opportunities such as...

Now that the gay lobby has successfully persuaded the Parliament of Canada to legalize same-sex marriage, the question arises: What will it do next? Will it retreat for a time into inactivity and wait for the public to bestow semi-respectability on the new condition? Or will it brazenly push the government to silence Christian churches that carry the gay-marriage conflict into the next federal election by removing their tax deductibility status? Or will it open a new campaign to prohibit all criticism of homosexual practice on moral grounds by deeming it an exercise in "hate"? Last week, eight days after...