CANADIAN MAN "BANNED FOR LIFE" FROM CRITICIZING
HOMOSEXUALITY (Friday Church News Notes, December 21, 2007,
www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is
excerpted from "Catholic Activist ‘Banned for Life,’" LifeSiteNews,
Dec. 13, 2007) -- "The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission’s
decision to impose a ‘lifetime’ ban on a local Catholic's freedom to
publicly criticise homosexuality, was upheld this week in its entirety
by Saskatchewan Court of Queens Bench. Bill Whatcott, a licensed
practical nurse who lives in Saskatchewan, is a campaigner against the
homosexual political movement that is sweeping the Canadian legal
system. In 2006, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC)
ordered Whatcott to pay $17,500 Cn. to four complainants who complained
that their ‘feelings’ and ‘self-respect’ were ‘injured’ by Whatcott’s pamphlets
denouncing the ‘gay lifestyle’ as immoral and dangerous. Whatcott says
he was fined for his pamphlets that used ‘verbatim’ a text from a classified
personal advertisement in a local homosexual publication that ran,
‘Man seeking boys.... age not so relevant.’ Canadians concerned about
what they see as the erosion of basic democratic freedoms are calling for
a stop to the extra-judicial powers of the Human Rights Commissions in
which the usual rules for due process of law do not apply. Ottawa Citizen
columnist David Warren blasted the Human Rights Tribunals, calling them ‘
kangaroo courts’ and ‘star chambers’ with ‘quasi-legal powers that should
be offensive to the citizens of any free country... in which the defendant’s
right to due process is withdrawn.’ He says, ‘They reach judgments on the
basis of no fixed law,’ and, ‘the process is the punishment for simply by
agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and
paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who
brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing.’
Conservatives in Canada are supporting a petition, addressed to
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to abolish or at least curtail the powers
of the Human Rights Commissions. The petition to stop the
Human Rights Commissions is located at
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/a-free-dominion-against-the-hrcs.html."
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