Reva Landau denied standing by ON Justice

Source: Metronews.ca

A woman who went to court last year seeking to strip Catholic schools of almost all government funding has been denied legal standing, stopping her court challenge before it got started.

Reva Landau was to argue the court should reduce Catholic school funding to the formula used in 1867, which she said would eliminate public funding for Catholic high schools and restrict elementary school funding to contributions from the property taxes of Catholic landowners.

She argued that the existence of Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic schools is protected by the Constitution, but that the legislation that funds them today violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.   Read the full story here.   

California Supreme Court Got It Right

There is no doubt in my mind that most other gays will disagree with me, however, I think the California supreme court got it right when they upheld the ban on gay marriage.

I'm not against gay marriage, but too many times, the public and politicians rely on the courts to make the difficult decisions. This happens because people are generally lazy and most politicians have no guts. This gay marriage ban is a perfect example.

In true democratic fashion the California populace went to the polls last fall and voted on the now famous proposition 8. The result of that vote was to ban gay marriage. After the vote all the gays cried foul and said that isn't what California realy wants, its just that enough people didn't get out and vote!

Well, I say boo hoo to you. This brings us right back to the generally lazy public. If they really felt so strongly about this issue and really wanted gay marriage, then proposition 8 would not have passed. The public has spoken and the supreme court has done the right thing by upholding the democratic process.

If the majority of Californians really want to allow gay marriage, then a new proposition will be put forward and a majority will vote to allow it.

Its really that simple.