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LANGLEY, B.C., September 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The Citizens Research Institute, the pro-family group directed by Kari Simpson, is filing two discrimination complaints with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against the B.C. College of Teachers. The basis of her complaints is that, “The B.C. College of Teachers has promoted contempt, intolerance and blatant discrimination against citizens with religious beliefs. They have made a public spectacle in their unwarranted and mean-spirited persecution of BCCT member, Mr. Chris Kempling, a Christian.”  As previously reported by LifeSite, Kempling is a teacher who was hounded and reprimanded by his own teachers college for writing a factual letter to a local newspaper on his own time opposing the use of graphic XtraWest homosexual newspaper clippings in the classroom.  “There are a number of critical issues at stake,” Simpson says: “Free speech, the right to express opinion, and the right to believe in God and the overt intolerance of the BCCT toward Christians and [members of] other religious faiths.” She wants the Tribunal to order the BCCT to apologize to Kempling, plus costs and compensation. Provocatively, Simpson wants to see the BCCT ordered to “participate in sensitivity training that will educate their members in appreciating and understanding Christianity” as well as “workshops arranged by the Citizens Research Institute that would inform them on the facts [political, health, etc.] of homosexuality.”  For more information or to lend support, contact Kari Simpson at (604)514-1614 Or write: Kari D. Simpson, P.O. Box 12014, Murrayville Square, Langley, B.C.  V3A 9J5 By fax: (604)514-1669   To write the B.C. Human Rights Commission #201-815 Hornby Street Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2E6 By fax: (604)660-0195   For previous LifeSite coverage see:  TEACHER REPRIMANDED BY COLLEGE FOR OBJECTING TO HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/jun/02060702.html