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ONTARIO JUDGE MCMURTRY MAKES FINAL GIFT TO HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS

Chief Justice Roy McMurtry of the Ontario Court of Appeal is quite the boy! He stickhandled in June 2003, the decision of his court in support of same-sex marriage in record time - less than six weeks, as opposed to the usual six months, without apparently even bothering to review the evidence, since no mention was made of it in his decision. He then, in one grand political sweep, ordered his decision to take effect immediately, thus cutting out any possible review by either Parliament or the Supreme Court of Canada. By this move, McMurtry undermined both the judicial and political processes in Canada. Quite an accomplishment for this former Attorney General of Ontario, who apparently knows a thing or two about playing the political game. McMurtry then completed his political flourish by flouting judicial convention by gleefully partying with the homosexual litigants (see REALity July/August 2003 p. 8, "Judges Party with Homosexual Activists".)

It now appears, that Judge McMurtry made yet another gift to the homosexual activists by ordering that the federal treasury pay the costs of the homosexual challengers in that case.

The recently published Public Accounts for 2004 provide us with the following information on this significant point (Lawyers Weekly, November 19, 2004.)

Toronto lawyer Martha McCarthy, who acted for several of the homosexual challengers in the case, received $645,000 in counsel fees from the federal government for arguing the case on behalf of the homosexual activists.

R. Douglas Elliot, also a Toronto lawyer and a homosexual himself, who argued that case on behalf of another legal challenger, the Toronto homosexual church called The Metropolitan Community Church, was paid $409,162 in costs by the federal government.

Taxpayers had previously covered the costs in the case, via the notorious federally funded Court Challenges Program, not only of the homosexual lobby organization EGALE, but also of the interveners, Canadian Coalition of Liberal Rabbis for Same Sex Marriage. This latter organization, by the way, was granted intervener status by McMurtry, even though this organization applied too late, only barely two months before the case was to be argued. Ever generous to the homosexual cause, Judge McMurtry overlooked this detail.

All in all, homosexual activists were treated extremely well by McMurtry in their legal challenge of traditional marriage. Not only did the obliging judge grant them all they wanted legally and deftly by-passed any contentious parliamentary debate on this issue - he also ordered that they not be out of pocket a single cent: he merely handed their bill to the taxpayer. Judge McMurtry, must be pleased with his accomplishment.

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