Good ol’ activist judges…

I just saw this from the national post. Apparently a panel of three Ontario justices has decided to legally recognize a lesbian couple and a sperm donor father as the parents (that’s right three parents) of a child. I’ll lay the greater ramifications of this aside for now.

Essentially this is just further breakdown of the idea of the “nuclear family”. So here is my prediction. Frankly it’s unfair to allow a child to have two mothers but to deny a man two wives (or a woman two husbands, we’ve got be egalitarian now). So long as everyone in the situation consents to the relationship(s) what’s the harm right? So my prediction is that this is the next step in the breakdown of the traditional idea of the family: multiple spouses.

It’s weird to actually see this stuff playing out before my very eyes. What disturbs me the most is that as far as I can tell there was no democratic process involved in this decision. Three appointed judges got to make a decision with lasting ramifications without the people of Ontario being consulted. Is this the future of lawmaking in Canada?

In my next post I’ll try and talk about some of the predictions Douglas Farrow made about the greater ramifications these sort of decisions are leading to.