Winnipeg -- A recent Ontario court decision has denied British Columbia’s Trinity Western University’s law school from receiving accreditation because university administrators did the unthinkable. As a private Christian university Trinity requires its students and faculty to sign a “Community Covenant” which promises, among other things, to abstain from sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and woman. Seems the covenant didn’t sit well with the Nova Scotia Barrister’s Society and the Toronto-based liberals at the Law Society of Upper Canada, which both moved to block Trinity’s accreditation on the premise that the covenant, presumably, offended homosexuals. The matter moved to the courts and while the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruled in favour of Trinity, as expected, the Ontario Court ruled the polar opposite, denying Trinity’s accreditation in Ontario.
