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The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education

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dc.contributor.authorWells, Kristopher
dc.contributor.authorGrace, Andre P.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T22:20:01Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T22:20:01Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionIn 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.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R39P2WH37
dc.language.isoen
dc.relationhttp://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE28-3/CJE28-3-gracewells.pdf
dc.relation.isversionofGrace, A. P., Wells, K. (2005). The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education. Canadian Journal of Education, 28(3), 237‐270.
dc.rights© 2005 Kristopher Wells. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.
dc.subjectCatholic Church
dc.subjectCanadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
dc.subjectCourt judgments
dc.subjectIndividual rights
dc.subjectSupreme Court of Canada
dc.subjectInstitutional church rights
dc.subjectQueer youth
dc.titleThe Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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