"Canadian government to pastor: Renounce your faith! 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."
Rusty sent me this email. Being Canadian, it is hard to believe that my nation is coming to this. Even more surprising was that this happened in Alberta, which tends to be the most conservative province in Canada. The whole thing just makes you wonder, what is our world coming to? Governments in the West promote freedom of speech and tolerance but they are very intolerant to Christianity. Most people will tolerate almost anything, including other religions, just not Christianity. The Bible talks a lot about suffering and I believe that we as westerners will begin to understand this more and more clearly in the coming years.
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I haven't come across the news story yet, but I'm appalled that it happened.
You are right in your assessment - tolerant is used incorrectly in our society. To be truly tolerant is to disagree but allow the person to have the right to hold onto differing opinions - but they don't allow us that and instead they want us to be walkovers by giving up our own right to our opinions.
I wonder how society will react if they get labeled hypocrites - but then again, the Western church in general isn't doing well in the hypocritical department either! ;)
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