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To: polymuser
Certain Bible passages are now classified as hate speech, and a preacher can be jailed for reading them aloud in the sanctuary.

Would you care to post a link to a news article to that effect? Thanks.

27 posted on 08/21/2006 4:20:47 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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To: RansomOttawa

Certain Bible passages are now classified as hate speech, and a preacher can be jailed for reading them aloud in the sanctuary.

Would you care to post a link to a news article to that effect? Thanks.



I see there are religious exemptions to C-250, the Canadian law in question, but the accused must prove oneself exempt. And it appears there's no rush to convict. But there were certainly concerns at the time. Some C-250 opinion links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C-250
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126339/posts
http://www.ccicinc.org/politicalaffairs/051603.html
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/persecution/pch0080.html
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/yz/z-misc/zieve/2004/zieve122104.htm
http://www.familyaction.org/Articles/issues/freedoms/bill-c250/news-rls-apr28-04.htm
http://www.cwfa.org/printerfriendly.asp?id=9672&department=cfi&categoryid=papers


30 posted on 08/22/2006 9:51:28 AM PDT by polymuser (There is one enemy and one war.)
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