An Ontario
superior court judge is facing pressure to avoid future
cases involving gay rights after he made controversial
remarks at a gay pride festival in Halifax,
Canada's Globe and Mail reported
Tuesday.
Justice David
Corbett told the crowd that most of the battles for gay
rights had been "won," causing members of the
community to raise questions about his impartiality.
Foremost in the
push for Corbett to recuse himself from gay rights cases
is conservative group Real Women of Canada, the Mail
reported.
Corbett is known
for representing Mark Hall as his lawyer in 2002, a year
before taking the bench. According to the Mail, Hall
took his Catholic school board to court after it
denied him the right to take his boyfriend to the high
school prom. (The Advocate)