Canadian gov’t agency tells minister to stop ‘disparaging’ gays
-
- June
- 12
I got an interesting email today from New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative evangelical group that is pretty unhappy with Gov. Paterson’s call for NYS to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
The email—as a warning, I guess, of what might come in NY—tells the story of a Canadian pastor named Stephen Boissoin (that’s him). He got in trouble with the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal a couple of years back for writing a letter to the editor that condemned the “propagation” of homosexuality.
I looked it up and New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms got it quite right.
The human rights tribunal recently decided that “Mr. Boissoin and The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. shall cease publishing in newspapers, by e-mail, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the Internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals.â€
Can you enforce such a ruling in Canada, I wonder.
On June 19, NYers for Constitutional Freedoms is asking all “Bible-believing ministers” to gather in Albany’s Legislative Office Building from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to challenge Paterson’s decision.
This entry was posted
on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 2:15 pm by Gary Stern.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Print
| 
Email
The world of religion, we don't have to tell you, is vast. The purpose of this blog is for Stern to note, flag and comment on some of the more interesting religious developments on the scene – weighty and quirky, somber and laughable, far away and just down the road. He won't interpret Scripture, take sides in conflicts or judge anyone. But he will take advantage of the journalist's license to observe.
