ARPA Note: Read some of the comments posted online below the CBC article (follow the link below) to get a wake-up call to the shameful reality of our secular country. Logic and reason mean little because our society is so blinded by its own folly - we need to pray. From CBC.ca: The Abbotsford School Board could find itself before a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal if it continues to refuse to offer the high school elective course Social Justice 12. Murray and Peter Corren filed a human rights complaint...
Joseph Brean, National Post - October 10, 2008 The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ruled today that a controversial article about Islam in Maclean's magazine did not violate the province's hate speech law. In acquitting the magazine, the Tribunal ruled that the article, an excerpt from Mark Steyn's book America Alone in which he describes the demographic and ideological dangers posed by a growing Muslim population in the West, was not likely to expose Muslims to hatred or contempt. [Keep...
John Carpay, Calgary Herald - September 27, 2008Should Bill Whatcott be required to pay $17,500 to four individuals who were offended by the flyers he distributed? In 2001 and 2002, Whatcott distributed flyers articulating his opposition to teaching homosexuality in Saskatoon's public schools. In making his case that this would harm children, he said "Sodomites" were trying to spread their "filth" and "perversion." The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal must rule on whether the contents of Whatcott's flyers are "extreme" enough to justify this $17,500 human rights tribunal ruling. The court's...
ARPA Note> This is the program that was used to successfully challenge the definition of marriage and advance the homosexual political cause.CBC News Online: Sept 9, 2008Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion pledged Tuesday to restore funding for the federal court-challenges program if elected prime minister, and to double it, saying its cancellation by the Conservatives was "damaging the fabric of our society." The program set aside $3 million a year to pay the legal fees of groups that wanted to challenge government decisions that affected their rights as guaranteed by...
John Carpay: National Post Online, September 02, 2008 ...
Will Ontario doctors be forced to ignore personal beliefs just to please a pompous human rights commission?Lorne Gunter, National Post: Tuesday, September 02, 2008The sheer arrogance of human rights commissions will be their downfall: their conviction that they have a superior understanding of rights compared to anyone else and that once they have pronounced how rights shall be interpreted, the rest of us should fall in lockstep with smiles on our faces and cheery tunes on our tongues, content that...