Delwin Vriend is a Canadian educator, who was involved in a landmark legal case on lesbian and gay rights in Canada. A lesbian is a homosexual woman. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Vriend, a chemistry lab instructor at King's College in Edmonton, Alberta, was fired in 1991 because his sexual orientation was deemed incompatible with the religious beliefs of the Christian Reformed Church, who owned and operated the school. Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo. ... There are a number of institutions known as Kings College: Kings College, Hong Kong, Kings College in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong Kings College, Uganda, Kings College in Wakiso district, Uganda Kings College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge Kings College... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Industry Integrity Progress City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada location. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA or CRC) is a Protestant Christian denomination which follows Reformed Calvinist theology. ...

He attempted to file a discrimination complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission, but was refused on the grounds that sexual orientation was not protected under the province's human rights code. Vriend subsequently sued the Human Rights Commission.

In 1992, an Alberta court ruled that sexual orientation must be treated as a protected class under human rights legislation. The provincial government subsequently appealed, and in 1994, the decision was overruled by the Alberta Court of Appeal. This decision was then appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada in the case of Vriend v. Alberta, who finally ruled in 1998 that provincial governments could not exclude LGBT individuals from human rights legislation. 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The Alberta Court of Appeal is the highest court in Alberta. ... The Supreme Court Building in Ottawa The Supreme Court of Canada is Canadas highest court and is located in the capital city of Ottawa. ... Vriend v. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ...

Despite popular misunderstanding, the Vriend case was not against King's College, and Vriend never subsequently pursued a human rights complaint against the institution. The case strictly involved whether LGBTs should have the right to have discrimination claims investigated by provincial human rights commissions, and did not set any legal precedent for the resolution of such claims. Canadian human rights legislation does exempt religious institutions, and the Supreme Court ruling did not change that. However, some religious groups have lobbied the provincial and federal governments to invoke Canada's notwithstanding clause to overrule the decision. The override power or notwithstanding clause is the legislative power under section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution of Canada. ...

Vriend was subsequently employed as a software engineer and currently resides in San Francisco.