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<p><strong><em>Marc Hall v. Durham Catholic School Board</em></strong> began when Oshawa, Ontario's Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School asked students attending the prom to submit the names of the guests they intended to bring. Hall, who is gay, submitted the name of his 21-year-old boyfriend, Jean-Paul Dumond, and was denied on the grounds that homosexuality is incompatible with Roman Catholic teaching.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Mr. Stephen Lewis</em></strong> is the do-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and more effective global responses to HIV/Aids.</p>
  
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<p>Supported by his family and a wide variety of community organizations, Hall thus took the school board to court in a two-day hearing that began on May 6, 2002. Hall's lawyer, David Corbett, argued that the denial of his request violated the Ontario Education Act, which requires school boards in the province not to discriminate. The school board, on the other hand, argued that court interference in its decision would amount to denying its religious freedom.</p>
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For more than two decades, Stephen Lewis has contributed to the United Nations as Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, and as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.</p>
  
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Did You Know?

Stephen Lewis

Mr. Stephen Lewis is the do-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and more effective global responses to HIV/Aids.

For more than two decades, Stephen Lewis has contributed to the United Nations as Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, and as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.</p>

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