TOP6NEWS - Date 12.14.04

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1-NEWS:  Some New Foundland mayors won't perform ssm

2-NEWS:  What if the Canadian ssm bill doesn't pass?

3-NEWS:  More parents are sex selecting

4-NEWS:  SSM in the OR Supreme Court tomorrow

5-OP-ED:  Judicial audacity in Canada

6-OP-ED:  Findlaw’s J. Grossman on the Canadian ssm decision

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1-NEWS: Some New Foundland mayors won't perform ssm

Some mayors will refuse to officiate at same-sex weddings, regardless of what happens in a Supreme Court of Newfoundland case, says Gander Mayor Claude Elliott. "It's not right for two people of the same sex to be married, and I will refuse to do any same-sex marriages," says Elliott, who says doing so would go against his religious beliefs.

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2-NEWS: What if the Canadian ssm bill doesn't pass?

Thinking the unthinkable in the House

By Greg Weston -- Sun Ottawa Bureau

If the Liberal government's proposed legislation recognizing same-sex marriage were put to a vote in the Commons this afternoon, odds are it would pass by a considerable margin.

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3-NEWS: More parents are sex selecting

By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer

Kristen and John Magill adore all three of their daughters -- 11-year-old twins and a 5-year-old baby sister. But when they began to plan for their next -- and last -- child, the Magills really wanted a boy.

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4-NEWS: SSM in the OR Supreme Court tomorrow

By: PETER WONG Statesman Journal

Jan Nelson and John King, both of Salem, will pay close attention Wednesday when the Oregon Supreme Court takes up a lawsuit that started as a challenge to Oregon's marriage law. The case, Li v. Oregon, was filed in the spring, before voters decided last month to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Nelson and King will be paying attention for differing reasons.
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5-OP-ED: Judicial audacity in Canada

Judicial audacity scales new height

By Bruce Fein

The Supreme Court of Canada scaled a new peak in hallucinatory constitutional interpretation on Dec. 9, 2004. In an advisory opinion sustaining the Canadian Parliament's power to recognize same-sex "marriages," the best and the brightest of Canada's jurists insisted the nation's constitution was an organic "living tree," not a petrified forest incapable of new limbs and climbing treetops.

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6-OP-ED: Findlaw’s J. Grossman on the Canadian ssm decision

By JOANNA GROSSMAN

Last week, the Canadian Supreme Court issued an historic advisory opinion (a "reference," in Canadian parlance). The opinion clears the way for the Canadian Parliament to enact a law that would permit same-sex couples to marry throughout the country.

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