LifeSiteNewsThe protest against the inclusion of the Alberta Human Rights Act in Section 16 of the province’s proposed new Education Act (Bill 2) is escalating, with over 2000 attending a peaceful protest at the Alberta Legislature on Monday, March 19.
Paul Faris, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association, attended the protest and told LifeSiteNews that the rally was “a huge success.”
“With at least 2100 people attending, this rally was amongst the largest in Alberta history,” Faris said.
... Faris observed that “it wasn’t just homeschoolers there, but lots of private, Catholic and public schoolers, so it’s becoming a very broad-based movement of parents who are concerned that the government is taking away their freedom in education.”
The focal point of the protest is the possibility that home and private schools that teach the precepts of their faith could be prosecuted by human rights tribunals for “hate crimes” under the Alberta Human Rights Act (AHRA). The AHRA has been used in the past to prosecute conservatives and Christians, most notably pastor Steve Boissoin, who was found “guilty” by a tribunal of “hate speech” against homosexuals after he published a letter to the editor in a local newspaper. That conviction was subsequently overturned by the court system.
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Canada is almost as left wing as Europe, so this begs the question on what they could possibly find so morally objective.
What other thoughts is the Canadian government planning on regulating?
There is a reason for our Second Amendment. It is to "restructure' our government when needed.
Welcome to the era of "thought crimes".
To get a better idea of the numbers represented in this protest keep in mind that Canada has 1/10th the population of the United States.
Those who claim to be homo, their activists and their supporters say nobody is hurt by so-called "same-sex 'marriage.'" Of course, thats not true, and this article points it out:
It damages parents' Right to guide their children in Morality. When this damage is widespread, the coountry, the society and the culture are damaged because the basic unit of society, culture and country is damaged.
As a citizen of this country and member of this society and thei culture, and, especially, a Christian, I will never surrender myself, nor my family, nor my culture, nor my society, nor my country, to the filth of the homosexual agenda.
They come to build a wall between Christ, Christians and me. We know they can't win.
As for me and my family, we'll take the trail marked on my Father's Map.
"..... promote understanding and respect for others and honour and respect the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Alberta Human Rights Act.” On the surface it sounds harmless, even possibly noble, except that beneath the surface the promoters of this Act are thoroughly intolerant of anyone who does not conform with their secular, anti-religion - or certainly anti-Christian, agenda and with their imbecilic fixation on multiculturalism rubbish that is the source of so much sickening political correctness hypocrisy and assault on free speech.
As to "respect for the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom", how many Canadians have read it? I have and at a blink would gladly re-write it. Even 'Human Rights Acts' nowadays arouse suspicion, because in most cases they conceal an agenda that offends Christian beliefs and walks roughshod over individual liberties.
Meanwhile, hats off to Albertans who are protesting this new attempt at invasion