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By Rex Wockner International News Report
 A gay teenager in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada won an
interim court injunction May 10 and took his boyfriend
to his high-school prom that night.
Citing Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Superior Court Justice Robert MacKinnon said the Durham Catholic School Board could not ban Marc Hall's boyfriend, Jean-Paul Dumond, from attending the dance at Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School. "Exclusion of a student from a significant occasion of school life, like the school Prom, constitutes a restriction in access to a fundamental social institution," MacKinnon wrote. "In Canada we are permitted to hold views that are in conflict with public policy, but we are not permitted to act upon discriminatory views in prescribed fields of endeavour when the result is discriminatory treatment of others." The school board responded with a threat to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada in an attempt to reverse the ruling. Board members say gay sex is sinful and that letting gay couples attend the prom undermines Catholic teaching.
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