XPost: soc.men, can.politics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Mon, 25 May 2009 22:54:05 -0500, Tom P wrote:   
      
   > Meldon wrote:   
   >> After all these years of its dominance in my life, I’m still confused   
   >> about the law. Can anyone make sense of legal process when laws seem to   
   >> contradict themselves? Correct me if I’m wrong but when legislation   
   >> passes and becomes law, that law can be challenged in Canada under the   
   >> Charter of Rights and Freedoms?   
   >>   
   >> Remedy under Section 24 requires a violation of right to be shown. This   
   >> is managed through the Human Rights Tribunal?   
   >>   
   >> Am I close?   
   >>   
   >> Non-custodial parents are denied the same options for adoption as   
   >> custodial parents. A custodial parent can have their child adopted and   
   >> be absolved of financial obligation to them. A non-custodial parent has   
   >> no such motion available.   
   >   
   > There are a lot of things that contradict themselves in Canadian law.   
   > One thing that is clearly unfair is minority rights. When an employer,   
   > especially the Canadian government, hires someone, they show preference   
   > to minorities over "traditional" white male Canadians. I've heard it   
   > referred to as "reverse discrimination". That is a catch phrase.   
   > Discrimination is discrimination and is not supposed to be allowed under   
   > the Constitution. Yet, this is clearly practiced and encouraged by all   
   > provincial an federal government agencies.   
   >   
   > When couples divorce, the courts always take the woman's side of a child   
   > custody dispute. The male in the dispute has little chance of custody   
      
   Ya and that's why Meldon is such a shmuck.  He's so stuck in his own   
   ego that he can't suck it up for his kid's sake.  So they got no dad   
   and he gets to feel self-righteous.   
      
   Splzght.   
      
   Dhu   
      
   > and must fight for the right to spend time with his children. This is   
   > where I support gay marriages.   
   >   
   > Sooner or later a child custody battle will happen over an adopted child   
   > of a gay marriage. A judge will have no other option than to treat each   
   > member of that marriage equally. At that point, a man fighting for child   
   > custody in a heterosexual marriage can ask to be treated in the same   
   > manner. How can a judge treat both situations differently when all are   
   > supposed to be treated equally.   
      
      
      
      
      
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   Duncan Patton a Campbell is Dhu   
      
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