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barb_anello
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posted 20 July 2006 11:42 AM      Profile for barb_anello   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The REAL Women clan are at it again ... Now they've filed a formal complaint against Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry with the Canadian Judicial Council, alleging judicial misconduct.


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Judge Who Gave Canada Homosexual "Marriage" Had Conflict of Interest Says Women's Rights Group

TORONTO, July 19, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The women’s rights organization, REAL Women of Canada, has filed a formal complaint against Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry with the Canadian Judicial Council, alleging judicial misconduct. McMurtry was the judge who issued a ruling in 2003 on the Halpern case that effectively ended the traditional definition of marriage in Canada.

McMurtry’s son, James, revealed in a letter to the editor of a BC newspaper that his sister is a lesbian in a live-in relationship with another woman. This, says REAL Women, creates a serious concern that “McMurtry had a personal and familial interest” in the Halpern case, “which seriously impaired his objectivity and his ability to adjudicate the case.”

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REAL Women’s letter alleges that McMurtry’s personal interest biased the entire process and violated the “fundamental judicial obligations of office.” REAL Women says that in addition, Justice McMurtry deliberately chose and selected judges sympathetic to same-sex "marriage" to hear the case.

Full Article at http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06071907.html
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oldgoat
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posted 20 July 2006 11:48 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A personal and familial interest, huh? I guess by the same reasoning Justice Thurgood Marshall should have stepped aside from all Civil rights cases before the US supreme court as black judge. But then again so should all the others as white judges.
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Yst
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posted 20 July 2006 12:13 PM      Profile for Yst     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
One of the judges has a gay relative? The horror. Just imagine if one of the judges had a heterosexual relative. How could anyone with a heterosexual relative, friend or acquaintance be expected to judge fairly on this subject? In fact, I don't think anyone with a sexual relative or acquaintance should be allowed to judge on such a case. This sort of thing should be decided exclusively by groups of socially isolated asexual hermits who associate with no one but themselves**.

**Coincidence, that my attempt at a reductio ad absurdum ended up sounding like a sincere description of Vatican political philosophy?

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Paul Gross
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posted 20 July 2006 03:40 PM      Profile for Paul Gross   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I could accept this, if it meant that Dick Cheney would be forced to resign as US Vice-President

I guess REAL Women wants judges (and other decision makers) to have small (or no) families since the larger your family, the more likely it will include gay people. Or for that matter, the more likely that someone in your family could see their life improved by one of your rulings for any reason. So therefore judges with families should only make decisions that hurt people, preferably decisions that discriminate against people different than themselves.

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jeff house
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posted 20 July 2006 04:01 PM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
They don't understand what is meant by "conflict of interest."

They say that McMurtry’s son, James, revealed in a letter that his sister is a lesbian in a live-in relationship with another woman.

But the claim is not made that this gay couple wants to get married, or tried to but couldn't.

So there's no conflict at all.


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