I stood beneath the spot where Adam’s finger is an inch away from his creator, and when no one was looking I reached up and touched the finger of God. – From Marie Griffin, La Grange: ...

The gesture is considered rude, offensive and inappropriate but one thing it is not — at least under Canadian law — is illegal. A Canadian judge ruled last month that giving someone the finger ...

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It may not be gentlemanly. But giving someone the middle finger is not a crime, a judge in Canada has ruled, adding that it is a right “that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian”.

"Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian," Judge Dennis Galiatsatos wrote.

A Canadian judge has dismissed a case brought against a man who gave his neighbor a middle-finger salute, describing the gesture as a 'God-given, Charter-enshrined right' and calling the decision ...

Is the middle-finger gesture obscene? Not in Pennsylvania, according to a state appellate decision filed this week reversing a man’s conviction for giving his ex-wife the finger.

A Quebec judge declared last month, as he acquitted a man who had been accused of threatening and harassing his neighbor, that Canadians have a “God-given” right to give someone the middle finger.

Giving someone the middle finger is a "God-given" right that belongs to all Canadians, a Quebec judge said, as he recently acquitted a Montreal-area man of criminal harassment and uttering threats.