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ERIC Number: EJ728339
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 34
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0380-2361
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The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education
Grace, Andre P.; Wells, Kristopher
Canadian Journal of Education, v28 n3 p237-270 2005
In 2002, Marc Hall's principal denied him permission to take his boyfriend to his Catholic high-school prom. In examining the politicization of the ensuing prom predicament, we critique Catholicized education and what we perceive to be the Catholic Church's efforts to privatize queerness as it segregates being religious from being sexual. We situate this privatization as the failure of the Catholic Church to treat vulnerable queer Catholic youth with dignity and integrity as the church sets untenable limits to queer. Examining Canadian case law regarding individual rights, we argue for the importance of upholding the "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" in the name of democratic principles.
Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Suite 204, 260 Dalhousie Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 7E4. Tel: 613-241-0018; Fax: 613-241-0019; e-mail: csse@csse.ca.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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