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The first legal same-sex marriages performed in Ontario were of Kevin Bourassa to Joe Varnell, and Elaine Vautour to Anne Vautour, by Rev. Brent Hawkes on January 14, 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Record of Marriage ) signed by Rev. Brent Hawkes〕 The legality of the marriages was questioned and they were not registered〔 Certificate of marriage, issued June 11, 2003.〕 until after June 10, 2003, when the Court of Appeal for Ontario in ''Halpern v. Canada (Attorney General)'' upheld a lower court ruling which declared that defining marriage in heterosexual-only terms violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ontario became the third jurisdiction in the world (after the Netherlands and Belgium) as well as the first jurisdiction in Americas to legalize same-sex marriage.〔Sylvain Larocque "Gay Marriage: The Story of a Canadian Social Revolution", published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd, 2006〕 The first legal same-sex marriage registered in Ontario was that of Paula Barrero and Blanca Mejias, married by banns at Emmanuel- Howard Park United Church on September 29, 2001 and registered the same year. The officiant was Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo (now MPP for Parkdale–High Park). The Office of the Registrar General apparently did not recognize the names as both being women and issued a marriage certificate. The marriage licence form requested only the names of the bride and groom, not the sex of the applicants.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Canadian Suits for Legal Marriage )〕 All of these marriages were authorized by calling the banns in the spouses' churches. The first civil marriage license issued to a same-sex couple was to Michael Stark and Michael Leshner, who had the usual waiting period waived and completed the formalities of marriage just hours after the court ruling, on June 10, 2003. ==Background== There was a decision in 1993 by the Ontario Superior Court in Layland v. Ontario, which ruled that same-sex couples did not have the capacity to marry each other. However, that decision was non-binding as it was the same Court taking up the issue in 2002. One of the judges in the most recent case wrote "with respect, the decisions to which I have referred assumed, without analysis, that the inability of persons of the same sex to marry was a question of capacity. The decisions are not binding on this court and, with respect, I do not find them persuasive."〔(Text of the ruling )〕〔(Summary of the decision from EGALE Canada )〕 The Equality Rights Statute Amendment Act (Bill 167), which would have granted same-sex couples a status comparable to civil unions, was proposed by the government of Bob Rae in 1994, but was defeated. On July 12, 2002, in a 3-0 decision of the Ontario Superior Court, same-sex couples won the right to marry in the case of ''Halpern et al. v. Canada''. The Court ruled that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violated the equality provisions of the Charter of Rights, giving the federal government a two-year stay of judgment in which to pass legislation implementing same-sex marriage; otherwise, same-sex marriage would come into force automatically. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Same-sex marriage in Ontario」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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