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- Title: More Censorship Or Less Discrimination? Sexual Orientation Hate Propaganda in Multiple Perspectives.
- Author : McGill Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 348 KB
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If hate propaganda pits anti-censorship advocates against anti-discrimination advocates, sexual minorities occupy an ambiguous position in this debate. Because they often find themselves fighting against censorship--and have, at least in the United States, made more gains in this area than in that of equal protection--sexual minorities have traditionally promoted strong freedom of expression values. However, recent advances in jurisprudence interpreting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, particularly the inclusion of sexual orientation as an analogous prohibited ground for discrimination under section 15, have prompted sexual minorities to pursue a vigorous anti-discrimination agenda. This agenda recently culminated in the Supreme Court of Canada's decisions in Vriend v. Alberta and M. v. H., which, by reading sexual orientation into a provincial human rights statute and extending spousal support to same-sex couples, provide considerable authority for extending Canada's Criminal Code hate propaganda provisions to sexual minorities. At the same time, a growing body of comparative and international law--in particular the United Nations Human Rights Committee's recent decision in Toonen v. Australia--has extended the norm of anti-discrimination to sexual minorities. These developments, combined with Canada's well-established commitment to criminalizing hate and its emerging commitment to substantive equality, suggest that sexual orientation hate propaganda is best analyzed as an issue of discrimination, not censorship. This conclusion should commend the extension of hate propaganda measures to protect sexual minorities to even those gay rights activists who dread further incursions into civil liberties. Les minorites sexuelles occupent une position ambigue dans le debat sur la propagande haineuse, qui oppose les partisans de mesures anti-censure a ceux de mesures anti-discrimination. En effet, parce qu'elles doivent souvent defendre leur propre liberte d'expression et ont, surtout aux Etats-Unis, connu dans ce domaine des succes plus significatifs que dans celui de l'egalite de protection, les minorites sexuelles se sont faites les defenseurs de la liberte d'expression. Les progres recents de la jurisprudence sous la Charte canadienne des droits et libertes, dont l'inclusion de l'orientation sexuelle au nombre des motifs analogues de discrimination prohibee, ont toutefois mene ces minorites a faire de la lutte judiciaire contre la discrimination une priorite. Leur action mena a des resultats concrets a travers les decisions de la Cour supreme du Canada dans Vriend c. Alberta et M. c. H., qui supportent par une autorite considerable l'extension des dispositions du Code criminel portant sur la propagande haineuse aux minorites sexuelles. Le droit compare et international--en particulier la decision du Comite des droits de l'Homme des Nations Unies dans Toonen c. Australie--permet egalement de constater un elargissement des normes anti-discrimination aux minorites sexuelles. Ces developpements recents, s'ajoutant a l'engagement du Canada a criminaliser les manifestations de haine et a celui, plus recent, a proteger le droit a l'egalite, menent a la conclusion que la propagande haineuse reliee a l'orientation sexuelle doit etre analysee en termes de discrimination plutot que de censure. Cette conclusion devrait mener meme les activistes homosexuals qui craignent les limitations aux droits de la personne a supporter l'extension des mesures contre la propagande haineuse afin de proteger les membres des minorites sexuelles.
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