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Rick

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Date Posted: 18:12:06 05/15/02 Wed

A gay Ontario teenager laid out his white tuxedo and pale blue tie Friday and prepared to go to his high school prom, hours after a judge ruled board officials could not stop him from attending with his boyfriend.

Superior Court of Justice Robert MacKinnon granted 17-year-old Marc Hall an injunction Friday afternoon preventing the Durham Catholic School Board from refusing him entry to the end-of-school dance if he escorted his boyfriend of one year Jean-Paul Dumond, 21.

In his ruling, MacKinnon wrote that "the idea of equality speaks to the conscience of all humanity dignity and worth.

"Marc Hall is a Roman Catholic Canadian trying to be himself. He is gay. It's not an answer to Section 15 Charter rights on these facts to deny permission to attend a school function to celebrate the end of his high school career with his classmates."

Hall's lawyer David Corbett said the ruling tells Catholic schools "you can't disciminate on the basis of sexual orientation when you're dealing with young people. You shouldn't be able to do that with anybody, but especially not young people in their care."

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Subject	Author	Date
The Church always picks on the ones that need them the most :( (NT)	Ashley	15:37:30 05/17/02 Fri


Yes my friend they do ...its one of the reasons I stop going to church ... :( (NT)	Rick	16:10:27 05/17/02 Fri