The Ontario Court of Appeal has rejected a Christian law school’s bid for recognition in the province, calling its prohibition on sexual activity between same-sex married couples degrading and reminiscent of similar rules singling out blacks and interracial couples in the United States. Trinity Western University, an evangelical Christian private school in Langley, B.C., has ...

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Trinity Western University will go up against the Law Society of Upper Canada this week and at the core of the dispute is the school’s ‘community covenant’ or code of conduct. A private Christian university that forbids sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage will be in Ontario’s top court this week, seeking a green light for ...

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Latest Trinity Western University hearing wraps up in BC Court of Appeal Telling LGBT students there are plenty of law-school seats elsewhere if they don’t like Trinity Western University’s admission requirements is not right, the lawyer for the BC law society told the appeal court June 3, 2016. That’s like telling Rosa Parks there are ...

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Should a Christian school demand its values be followed for admission? Trinity Western University has every right to discriminate in its admissions policy against people who want to have sex outside traditional marriage, the school’s lawyer told BC’s Court of Appeal, June 2, 2016. In fact, Kevin Boonstra says, any exclusion that may occur as ...

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