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June 10, 2008
Canadian Pastor Ordered to Renounce His Faith
In politically correct Canada, a Christian pastor has essentially been ordered to renounce his faith:
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. […]
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."
Comments Ezra Levant, an author who has been targeted by Canada's absurd yet frightening Human Rights Commissions:
[The] government now believes that if it can't convince a Christian pastor that he's wrong, it will just order him to condemn himself? Other than tribunals in Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China, where is this Orwellian "order" considered to be justice?
This is like a Third World jail-house confession — where accused criminals are forced to sign false statements of guilt. We don't even "order" murderers to apologize to their victims' families. Because we know that a forced apology is meaningless. But not if your point is to degrade Christian pastors.
Adds Pete Vere of the Catholic Exchange:
In essence, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal is ordering […] the minister to renounce his Christian faith, since his opposition to homosexuality is based upon the Judeo-Christian Bible.
By imposing on Canadians a grotesque parody of a society, liberals are proving that freedom can be handed to you on only a temporary basis. Sooner or later, you will have to fight for it.
Hat tip: Free Republic; on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 10, 2008 7:42 AM
Comments
Separation of Church and State is supposed to work both ways. In Canada, not so much.
Posted by: V the K at June 10, 2008 8:46 AM
The title "An Inconvenient Truth" could be applied to the Bible. And now, government is going to be in the business of silencing anyone reading it aloud if they want to be consistent with their idea of "freedom of speech", which means "freedom to promote leftist, Marxist, secular-humanist propaganda".
The Bible says some pretty harsh stuff about homosexuals, thieves, hypocrites, blasphemers, idolaters, faithlessness and lots of other things. It is very INtolerant on a lot of issues.
This does not sit well with "progressives". They want to make Christianity mirror THEIR views: "tolerance", "inclusiveness", "human-centric-ness" "one-world-ness" and "diversity".
It's obvious that the people yelling the loudest haven't even got a clue what's IN the Bible. They think Christianity should only be about "community activism" and homeless shelters and sanctuaries for illegal aliens.
You can't be a Christian, follow the Biblical teaching and "include" or "accept" homosexuality as an alternative "life style". THAT DOESN'T MEAN you kill homosexuals or run them out of town or deny them their civil rights. It DOES mean you can say "it's an abnormal way of living and should not be done."
Strangely, the Koran can be preached without so much as a whimper from the left. Hatred. Intolerance. Jihad. Death. NO PROBLEM! Double standard anyone?
Posted by: matt at June 10, 2008 10:31 AM
Christians being persecuted by those in government. Nothing new here, it's been happening since the first century AD. And Matt's got a good handle on it, so I haven't got anything to add to that part of the equation.
Posted by: Mister Prickly at June 10, 2008 12:12 PM
Tell them to shove it up their a$$. Oh, never mind
Posted by: JamesB at June 10, 2008 12:20 PM
Previews of coming attractions. If (and probably) when the Dear Leader seizes power.
Posted by: Ricardian at June 10, 2008 3:51 PM
I hope he doesn't pay the fine. I hope he goes right out and fires off another letter, or makes a speech, or gets in front of a TV camera and gives the "tribunal" an earful. Bowing down to these clowns will only make them more bold next time.
Posted by: PabloD at June 10, 2008 9:42 PM
Is there an address or website that can be accessed to send funds for Pastor Boission's legal defense?
If so would you please forward it to :
rcrana@hvc.rr.com
Thanks
Posted by: richard at June 11, 2008 6:35 AM
