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Marc Hall (born 1985) is a Canadian teenager whose legal fight to bring a same-sex date to his high school prom made Canadian and international headlines in 2002. 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Court Case Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board began when Oshawa, Ontario's Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School asked students attending the prom to submit the names of the guests they intended to bring. Hall, who is gay, submitted the name of his boyfriend, Jean-Paul Dumond, and was denied on the grounds that homosexuality is incompatible with Roman Catholic teaching. Oshawa (estimated 2004 population 150 000; metropolitan population 296 298) is a city on Lake Ontario located approximately 60 km east of downtown Toronto in Ontario, Canada. ...
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Supported by his family and a wide variety of community organizations, Hall thus took the school board to court in a two-day hearing that began on May 6, 2002. Hall's lawyer, David Corbett, argued that the denial of his request violated the Ontario Education Act, which requires school boards in the province not to discriminate. The school board, on the other hand, argued that court interference in its decision would amount to denying its religious freedom. May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ...
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Corbett argued that an organization which accepts public funding (Catholic school boards in Ontario are fully funded in the same manner as public schools) has to be accountable to the same laws (including anti-discrimination laws) as other public institutions. The school board's lawyer countered that Section 93 of the Canadian constitution protects the Catholic board's rights to conduct its affairs in accordance with Catholic teaching. The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law in Canada. ...
In addition, Corbett noted that while extramarital sex is also contrary to Catholic teaching, the school board had previously allowed pregnant students to attend the prom. A pregnant woman near the end of her term Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ...
On May 10, Justice Robert McKinnon granted an interlocutory injunction ordering that Hall be allowed to attend the prom with Dumond. He did not decide on the larger issues raised by the case, leaving those to be heard at a later trial.
The Hall case in film Director Larry Peloso created a one-hour documentary on the case entitled Prom Fight: The Marc Hall Story. An unrelated television movie, Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story, aired on CTV in 2004. Aaron Ashmore starred as Hall. CTV is Canadas largest privately owned English language television network. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Aaron Ashmore (born October 7, 1979 in Richmond, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television actor. ...
See also Canada has enshrined more legal rights for LGBT people than many other liberal nations. ...
LGBT rights Around the world · By country History · Groups · Activists Declaration of Montreal Same-sex relationships Marriage · Adoption Opposition · Persecution Violence This timeline of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history details notable events in the Common Era West. ...
External links - Marc Hall (equalmarriage.ca)
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