Little-Acorn
06-10-2008, 01:30 PM
Canada apparently doesn't have a First Amendment, keeping government from interfering with people's religion or their freedom of speech.
And our 1st amendment is fading fast. We're not too far from doing this ourselves (govt telling priests and others what they can and can't say), with laws banning "discrimination" (that means choosing) based on sexual orientation, laws banning ads criticizing politicians near elections, high government officials trying to make global warming and other junk science a matter of policy and law, etc.
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Government to pastor: Renounce your faith!
Now banned from expressing moral opposition to homosexuality
Posted: June 09, 2008
10:00 pm Eastern
A Canadian human rights tribunal ordered a Christian pastor to renounce his faith and never again express moral opposition to homosexuality, according to a new report.
In a decision dated May 30 in the penalty phase of the quasi-judicial proceedings run by the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, evangelical pastor Stephen Boisson was banned from expressing his biblical perspective of homosexuality and ordered to pay $5,000 for "damages for pain and suffering" as well as apologize to the activist who complained of being hurt.
According to a report from Pete Vere at the Catholic Exchange, the penalty could foreshadow the possible fate of the Rev. Alphonse de Valk, who also cited the biblical perspective on homosexuality in the nation's debate over same-sex "marriage" and now faces HRC charges.
Boisson wrote a letter to the editor of his local Red Deer, Alberta, newspaper in 2002 denouncing the advance of homosexual activism as "wicked" and stating: "Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights."
And our 1st amendment is fading fast. We're not too far from doing this ourselves (govt telling priests and others what they can and can't say), with laws banning "discrimination" (that means choosing) based on sexual orientation, laws banning ads criticizing politicians near elections, high government officials trying to make global warming and other junk science a matter of policy and law, etc.
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66704
Government to pastor: Renounce your faith!
Now banned from expressing moral opposition to homosexuality
Posted: June 09, 2008
10:00 pm Eastern
A Canadian human rights tribunal ordered a Christian pastor to renounce his faith and never again express moral opposition to homosexuality, according to a new report.
In a decision dated May 30 in the penalty phase of the quasi-judicial proceedings run by the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, evangelical pastor Stephen Boisson was banned from expressing his biblical perspective of homosexuality and ordered to pay $5,000 for "damages for pain and suffering" as well as apologize to the activist who complained of being hurt.
According to a report from Pete Vere at the Catholic Exchange, the penalty could foreshadow the possible fate of the Rev. Alphonse de Valk, who also cited the biblical perspective on homosexuality in the nation's debate over same-sex "marriage" and now faces HRC charges.
Boisson wrote a letter to the editor of his local Red Deer, Alberta, newspaper in 2002 denouncing the advance of homosexual activism as "wicked" and stating: "Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights."