Canadian alliance files brief in Ontario's 'three-parents case'

Published: 2006-08-30

OTTAWA (CNS) -- The Alliance for Marriage and Family has filed a brief in the so-called "three-parents case," saying its member groups have a common cause to protect the "traditional family unit in Canadian society and law." The case, scheduled to be heard by the Ontario Court of Appeal Sept. 25-26 in Toronto, involves a lesbian couple raising a child conceived by artificial insemination. Both women want to be considered the legal mother of the child. The biological father is also actively involved in the child's life. If their case is successful, it will mark the first time a child would have three legally recognized parents. The Alliance for Marriage and Family -- which includes the Catholic Civil Rights League, REAL Women of Canada, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Focus on the Family and the Christian Legal Fellowship -- opposes the change on the basis that the law has always recognized two parents for a child. "This is effectively providing an impetus for affirmation of multiple or group-parenting rights," said Phil Horgan, president of the Catholic Civil Rights League.

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