SA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civil Marriage Act, Conscience Vote

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 210
• Professor: Robert Menzies

Document Summary

In 1999, the supreme court of canada, in the case of m. v h. , expanded the deiniion of family by an. In the process they wrote the following about the atributes of a conjugal relaionship": They include shared shelter, sexual and personal behaviour, services, social aciviies, economic support and children, as well as the societal percepion of the couple. However, it was recognized that these elements may be present in varying degrees and not all are necessary for the relaionship to be found to be conjugal. While it is true that there may not be any consensus as to the societal percepion of same-sex couples, there is agreement that same-sex couples share many other conjugal characterisics. In order to come within the deiniion, neither opposite-sex couples nor same-sex couples are required to it precisely the tradiional marital model to demonstrate that the relaionship is.