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I'd just like to respond really quickly to this whole issue. In my opinion (being Canadian), living in a free country means having the freedom to practise your faith. If the Bible is outlawed as hate literature, then the freedom of religious expression has been denied. I personally feel that, in today's society, people feel that everything is okay EXCEPT Christianity (I hear it from my professors all the time). Where is the liberty in that? A society that believes in specific individual freedoms such as the freedom of speech and the freedom to practise religion should not be using the justice system to infringe on those rights. It is completely contradictory. To say, "I believe homosexuality is wrong" is exercising one's freedom of speech. To physically harm or to discriminate against a homosexual in any way is a completely different issue. What we have here is the violation of the (currently) legal privileges of a religious group in order to protect the (alleged) violation of the rights of another group. I've never known a Christian to gay bash, however. If this law is passed, should Christians respond by attempting to pass a law that reinstates their rights? Because that only makes sense. It truly is a ridiculous situation. To answer the question "Is America next?", I would like to say that, if America is all that many profess it to be, I hope not. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to see the absurdity of the bill that is currently in the works in Canada. I certainly hope that the government of America does a better job of protecting the rights of its citizens--all of them.