Perhaps, but a guy can always dream.
Posted on 06/09/2008 8:26:35 PM PDT by kellynla
The Canadian government has ordered a Christian pastor to renounce his faith and never again express moral opposition to homosexuality, according to a new report.
In a decision handed down just days ago 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 Father Alphonse de Valk, who also has cited the biblical perspective on homosexuality in the nation's debate over same-sex "marriage" and now faces HRC charges.
Boisson had written a letter to the editor of his local Red Deer 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
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It is coming to the USA with a vengence. Gird your loins and make your choices.
What’s the “or else” in this case? What will they do to him if he defies the ruling?
Concise Response: “How do you folks say it - shove it up your a$$?”
I anxiously await the day when a dead fascist hangs from every lamppost.
I guess the Pope will have to steer clear of Canada to avoid getting mired in a human “rights” hearing.
As someone that has preached a sermon or two … it is here already.
Ah yes, the Cromwell solution.
They need an organization so defend and appeal these rulings. I would contribute.
Otherwise..they need to seek asylum in the US where we still have the right of free speach if we can keep it.
WOW. So long Canada.
Never happen. And you know it.
“The Canadian government has ordered a Christian pastor to renounce his faith”
In a related story:
Christian pastor tells Canadian government REPENT YOU SINNER!
Why don’t they just order him to be gay and be done with this charade?!?
Can I whack them with a big stick?
This is insane. In an amazingly ironic way, the Canadian gov’t is indirectly insulting those gay people who have been victims of ACTUAL hate crimes, such as being stabbed to death just for being gay. Simply stating a belief about the topic is totally not the same thing.
Apparently, free speech is the new hate crime. Life is getting more Orwellian every day.
Otherwise..they need to seek asylum in the US where we still have the right of free speach if we can keep it.”
We have a poor substitute for the real thing.
Before he came to minority power Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister decried the law that was being used to end free speech.
If Harper gets a majority government, we may see some action. Until then we should all be well aware of Orwell's nightmare scenario. It is here.
You joke about that but I am 100% certain it will be ordered in the near future.
Perhaps, but a guy can always dream.
Government schools are more than able to brainwash children into becoming gay if they want to. I know this because they successfully brainwashed me into other liberal ideas and it took years to shake them off.
Absolutely! We could fill them with candy and use them as pinatas.
Writer says he wants to lose human rights case (Mark Steyn)
ctv.ca | 6-6-08 | CTV.ca News Staff
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 10:23:52 PM by Anti-Bubba182
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028652/posts
The Post editorial board:
The Mark Steyn complainants don’t understand freedom of speech
The National Post | 6/9/08 | Marni Soupcoff
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 10:10:13 PM by Dawnsblood
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028647/posts
When are controversial actions free speech?
Depends on which flag is flying
Minneapolis Star Tribune | June 9, 2008 | KATHERINE KERSTEN
Posted on Monday, June 09, 2008 10:53:17 PM by rhema
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028664/posts
In Canadian: “Take off, eh - Ya Hoser!”
Was the movie “V” set in England or Canada? (:-
Whirlednutsdaily? I stopped reading right there.
***What’s the “or else” in this case? What will they do to him if he defies the ruling?***
1 - Fines in the tens of thousands of dollars.
2 - Criminal charges.
3 - Jail time.
These things are very serious.
When it gets to this here in the USA I’m going to incite things that will get me banned from FR for sure.
Easy for me to say, but I hope if I was in his position I’d force the state to use its entire enforcement power. Make them lock up a pastor for commenting on his religious faith.
Possibly that won’t cause an uproar in Canada, but it sure would here.
your loss...but then ignorance is bliss now isn't it.
Maybe you'd be interested in reading the news from the Human Rights and Citizenship Commission website
but then you probably think it's all a fabrication from the “vast right wing conspiracy”...huh, Hillary. LOL
http://search.gov.ab.ca/abhrnew/query.html?qt=stephen+boisson&col=gov&charset=iso-8859-1&qp=site%3Awww.albertahumanrights.ab.ca
“V” for Vengeance? That was set in England.
I think the commission should be flooded with complaints about discrimination and hate speech against Christians.
WorldNetDaily would do a lot more to relieve ignorance if they even attempted to maintain reasonable journalistic standards. I read stories like this, and they certainly seem outrageous, but it's hard to know how much to believe.
For instance, the article provides no support for the claim that the pastor was ordered to "renouce his faith." Yes, he was ordered to stop preaching against homosexuality, but this really is not the same thing. The decision to sensationalize the writing (as if such blatant limits of free speech in Canada are not serious enough by themselves) seriously damages the article's credibility.
the marxists aren’t concerned “about discrimination and hate speech against Christians”
in fact, the marxists APPLAUD “discrimination and hate speech against Christians.”
He was also ordered to issue and publish a written apology for the contents of his letter, despite the court;s admission that the plaintiff had not been directly harmed. Read the decision, which is posted here:
http://albertahumanrights.ab.ca/Lund_Darren_Remedy053008.pdf
Canada does not force convicted serial murderers to apologize to their victims, but a pastor is forced to apologize for expressing his beliefs?
Yeah.
Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it.
That is because Dr. Lund's complaint has allowed the public to realize that he is, without question, a freedom-hating faggot.
Canada has strayed far from the common law if they allow damages of this sort.
and make your choices.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
So what’s going to happen when some Canadian Muslim Iman denounces gays — and then sues the Canadian Human Rights commission for engaging in a hate crime when it denounces him?
This is becoming too weird for human comprehension!
Try and call the so-called conservative talk shows about stuff like this. They don’t want to hear it.
Go back to sticking your head in the sand and enjoy your summer vacation.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
*Canada has strayed far from the common law if they allow damages of this sort.*
And in straying from common law, Canada has strayed from common sense.
I agree, but it just goes to show how bizarre the leftist ability to ‘doublethink’ anything is.
Christianity is always bad, Muslims are always persecuted, even though it’s the Muslims who have the habit of stringing gays up from cranes, pushing down walls on them, shooting women in the head for adultery - mostly UNPROVEN adultery...
and then of course there are the “honor killings”...
The opening line of the story is a lie so the credibility of the rest of the article is questionable. It wasn’t the “Canadian Government” that made the order, it was the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal, an agency of the Province of Alberta. The pastor can appeal the ruling to a REAL court and has a good chance of winning.
The most glaring inaccuracy in the article was the first sentence. The “Canadian Government” had no involvement in the case.
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