Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Free speech takes another hit in Canada

We read:

"Free speech in Alberta has suffered a serious, and unexpected reversal, in the guilty judgment handed down by an Alberta Human Rights Panel on Stephen Boissoin.

His critique of homosexuality in letters published by the Red Deer Advocate had been the subject of a human rights complaint and was declared "hate speech" by panelist, Lori G. Andreachuk.

It is a bad situation. Fortunately, there appear to be avenues of appeal to restore free-speech sanity to Alberta.....

Boissoin, a youth pastor, was outraged when the Alberta government agreed to an Alberta Human Rights Commission invitation to fund gay-themed textbooks in schools. These were to teach homosexuality was "normal, necessary, acceptable and productive."

Source

Must not contradict the authorities in the Union of Soviet Socialist Canada