Canadian Government to Pastor Renounce Your Faith
Now banned from expressing opposition
to homosexuality
Posted: June 09, 2008
10:00 pm Eastern
The bible being hate literature
in Canada now has taken much greater meaning with this decision – This pastor’s
freedom of speech stripped away, this pastors freedom or press cut off, an
even on the Internet.
He
is now faced with bowing the knee and professing what he declared based on
the word of God was wrong. And that Homosexuality and having it pitched in
the public schools to small children is wholesome and healthy.
At
risk here is the pastor, his wife and family, their home. And
his being able to preach at all. Let
us have no illusions about what is occurring in
For
those who have sold all and follow after Jesus Christ – This poses little
challenge. But to those who are not able to do so – this poses a grave threat
to them.
We
are viewing here opening salvos in which the cost to fearlessly preach the
unvarnished gospel. To cry out against sin to declare what is righteousness
before God, and to shout from the housetops the coming judgment – is for all
intents a slap on the wrist.
In
time jail will be added, and the right to vote stripped away from offenders
as well, as the cost to preach of sin righteousness and judgment is raised
until there are few takers.
Now
is the hour to profess Jesus Christ in
Now
is the time to repent and cry out to the Lord for deliverance, and turn from
your old ways and paths of careless ease that you your fathers and your fathers
father’s have walked in and have made no attempt to make your nation a disciple
of Christ
WorldNetDaily
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." (This is what He was prosecuted for
saying – Note here Like the recent case of Bridget Bardiot
in the EU who declared the Muslims were ruining the country. And
was fined $27,000.
The activist, local teacher Darren Lund, filed a
complaint and the guilty verdict from Lori G. Andreachuk,
a lawyer, was handed down some weeks ago. The latest decision involved the
penalty phase of the trial.
"While
agreeing that Boisson's letter was not a criminal
act, the government tribunal nevertheless ordered the Christian pastor
to [stop expressing his opinion and fined him $5,000.00
and ordered him to apologize ],"
Vere reported.
Andreachuk noted that Lund, who brought the
complaint, wasn't, in fact, injured.
"In this case there is no specific individual who can be compensated as
there is no direct victim who has come forward…," she wrote.
However, that did not stop her from ordering the payment anyway.
And as for the future, she wrote:
"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.
Further, they shall not and are prohibited from making disparaging remarks in
the future about …
Andreachuk also ordered Boissoin
to apologize for the original letter in the Red Deer Advocate and told the two
"offenders" to pay $5,000.
The apology letter, Vere said, "threatens
civil liberties in
"[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?"
"This is like a Third World jail-house confession – where accused
criminals are forced to sign false statements of guilt,"
"In essence, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal is ordering to the
minister to renounce his Christian faith, since his opposition to homosexuality
is based upon the Judeo-Christian Bible," Vere
wrote.
WND
reported recently about de Valk, the target of a
Human Rights Commission case over his biblical references regarding
homosexuality.
"Father [de Valk] defended the [Catholic]
Church's teaching on marriage during
Vere raised the question that
"If one, because of one's sincerely held moral beliefs, whether it be
Jew, Muslim, Christian, Catholic, opposes the idea of same-sex marriage in
Vere wrote that the response he got from Mark van Dusen, a spokesman for the federal human rights prosecution
office, shocked him.
The government agent confirmed the agency investigates complaints but
doesn't set public policy or moral standards. He said the agency job is to look
at the circumstances and decide whether to advance it or dismiss it.
What is shocking about that, Vere wrote, is the
admission that unjustified complaints can be dismissed, yet the case against de
Valk has continued now for more than six months.