KINGSTON, Ontario, April 13, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a bid to garner support for opposition to Bill C-250, Presbyterian minister Rev. Tristan Emmanuel has been addressing groups throughout Canada, including an address to a group last week in Kingston. Kingston’s Whig-Standard newspaper was there to report on the event.
“Precedent has been that religious rights are relative and minority rights are absolute, and that’s dangerous,” Emmanuel told the assembly. “If you don’t defend your faith in the public square, no one else will.”“I don’t believe anything I stand for, or say, is hate,” he told Robin Heron of the Whig-Standard. “To get to the heart of the fact, this law limits legitimate criticism of lifestyles.” In the pro-homosexual agenda “blog” of EGALE Canada, an activist group that promotes homosexuality, Executive Director, Gilles Marchildon, wrote the following: “Bill C-250, Svend Robinson’s bill to add ‘sexual orientation’ as a ground in hate propaganda legislation, is in danger of not becoming law. The House of Commons passed the Bill back in September but it is stuck in the Senate.” See the rest of this LifeSite Special Report, including action items recommended by C-250 opponents and links to related sites and politicians’ contact info https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/apr/040413a.html