Canada: the (Delwin) Vriend case.

Edmonton - Early in April, the Supreme Court of Canada "real in" sexual orientation as a prohibited ground for discrimination under Alberta's Human Rights Code. The provincial legislature has consistently refused to insert such a clause in its code; so the Court forced Alberta to put it in on the request of Delwin Vriend, a chemistry teacher, who had been dismissed from King's University College in 1991 because his homosexuality conflicted with the college's Christian principles. The Supreme Court held that the Alberta code should conform to the Charter of Rights, which the Court said protected sexual orientation. After a bitter debate in his badly divided caucus, Premier …