Media ambivalent about Supreme Court ruling.

From: Catholic Insight | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Most Canadians were not even aware of the court cases of two Montreal sex club owners before being blindsided once again by the Supreme Court. This time it was a unilateral legalization of common bawdy houses issued on December 21, 2005. In the process of approving the appeal of two owners of Montreal swingers' sex clubs against the conviction or a lower court of being "bawdy houses" for the purpose of committing indecent acts, the judges tossed out the yardstick of community standards of decency.

'As members of a diverse society," wrote Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, "we ...

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