Truth Is Trouble – A Pregnant Pause

Jessica Maciel and Fashion Coiffures Ltd. and Crystal Coiffures Ltd.

[ ED NOTE: Mbrandon8026 from Freedom Through Truth was kind enough to let me crosspost this item from his blog. You can read the original here.

Others more able than I have documented the danger that women actually pose to themselves by using these sorts of measures: namely, no one'll want to hire them, because they're too high maintenance. Go figure. ]

I saw an ad for a show called The Foundation TV Show recently, and that is all I know about the show. In the ad one actor says: “Truth is trouble”, and it stuck with me.

A young girl applying for her first job after completing a diploma course from Metropolitan College, got hired as a receptionist for 2 beauty salons in Erin Mills Town Centre about August 1, 2008. Miraculously, on August 9, 2008 her first day of work, she turned up for work and was 4 months pregnant. She told her new employer that she was pregnant when she started work, and was summarily dismissed.

She lied by omission, which she was allowed to do by law, as I understand. The employers tale of what happened was not believed by the Ontario HRT. It was unable to hold water, though Ms. Maciel would have been unable to hold her own water a few months into her job.

The HRT says that the salons discriminated against Ms. Maciel on the basis of sex. Clearly she had engaged in sex, resulting in the baby on the way. That was very much in evidence and getting more so.

The salons had presumably bypassed other qualified applicants, since there is really no qualification requirement for a receptionist job at a salon, to hire Ms. Maciel. And by law, you are allowed to dismiss without cause in Ontario, new employees who have not completed a probation period, which is currently legally 3 months, again as I understand.

However, you can’t dismiss a protected one like a pregnant one, a disabled one, or a gay one, or a black or yellow skinned one, not a Muslim one, or a Jew, though you can turf a Christian.

Truth is trouble, isn’t it? She omits to tell her employer an important detail about her short term availability to work, which means that they will have to train another person to do the work while she is away on maternity leave, while having to protect her job for her return, which is a more difficult task to fill. They then play loose with the truth about why she was let go, because the real truth won’t fly in kangaroo court.

The result: $35,000 for one hour’s work. I wonder if Jessica Maciel can hold her head up. She can certainly afford to.

We are a society so used to stretching the truth, that the truth has become troublesome.

The case decision is here.

Today’s Lynch List

Alright, here we go.

First off, a success story, apparently: From Pareta: Touch my linky: A Canadian Law Reform Success Story:

Not too long ago there was a huge dust-up between a few in the Ontario government wishing to help those Ontarians struggling “to navigate the torturous process” of Human Rights Commission complaints and the white dude peanut gallery who built the system.now helping Jessica Maciel, a young woman who was fired for being pregnant and subsequently vindicated.

Today we see those so-called controversial changes

Read the rest here.

Second, Mark Mercer writes about Alberta’s Bill 44 for the Ottawa Citizen: Sex-ed is part of an equal education:

Alberta, this summer, enacted legislation allowing parents to remove their children from classes when the lesson concerns sex, sexuality (including sexual orientation), or religion. Under Bill 44, children whose parents have removed them from class are not responsible on tests or assignments for the material they have missed. It will be implemented starting next fall.

Bill 44 directly contradicts the principle that every child has the opportunity to acquire as good an education as every other child. It is this principle that underlies Canada’s commitment, backed by law, to compulsory education to age 16. After all, no one can enjoy equality of opportunity in life if he or she has been denied equality of opportunity in education, and equality of opportunity in life is a bedrock value of liberal society.

Read the rest here. H/t to Blazing Cat Fur.

Third, a letter to the editor at the National Post: The Good Ship CHRC fairy tale:

Re: Saving The CHRC Through Amputation, George Jonas, Oct. 31.

The great thing (perhaps the only great thing) about Jennifer Lynch and the Canadian Human Rights Commission is that their antics can be fitted into so many literary frames. So while George Jonas espies glimmers of a famous Herman Melville saga involving a big fish and an obsessed skipper, and mentions as well George Orwell and noted literary genius Monty Python, other famous works of literature can be used, too.

For example, one can envision CHRC honcho Jennifer the Red Queen and Professor Richard Moon as the Mock Turtle in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with either Ezra Levant or Mark Steyn in the role of Alice. And isn’t Carroll’s sequel, Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, a perfect metaphor for a “human rights” tribunal hearing, since its “jurisprudence,” such as it is, is the mirror opposite of what occurs in a regular courtroom, where there’s a presumption of innocence and the truth is a defence?

But perhaps Mr. Jonas’s Moby Dick comparison does work best. After all, it’s the only one that affords us the opportunity to say re the “good ship CHRC”: Thar it blows!

Mindy G. Alter, Toronto.

Read it here. H/t to Blazing Cat Fur.

Fourth, our old pal Mohammed Elmasry shows his face again. From Scaramouche: Elmo shills for the “bagels ‘n’ samosas” scam:

Guess who’s all for “interfaith” comingling? None other than Dr. Mohamed Elmasry, the same guy who told a TV audience that every Israeli adult is fair game for an exploding shahid and the man behind the Islamist bid to push the sharia envelope by silencing Mark Steyn and Maclean’s Magazine. Here’s Elmo, all sweetness and light, from his new bully pulpit, e-rag the Canadian Charger:

Read the rest here.

Tonie Beharrell brings hammer down on DVBIA

[ ED NOTE: Jesse Ferreras was kind enough to let me crosspost this item from his blog. You can read the original here.

I spoke a little bit about the Pivot complaint a while back. I wasn't a fan. Can't seem to find a working link to the article though...]

Tonie Beharrell of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, the same tribunal behind the right to not wash your hands while working in a restaurant, is laying a gavel down on the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association for violating an alleged confidentiality agreement with Pivot Legal Society, the amateur DTES law firm that’s brought a complaint against the Association with no supporting documents.

The Tribunal has laid a fine of $2,000 against the association for revealing the fact that Pivot has no documentary evidence to support its claims that the DVBIA, through its Downtown Ambassadors program, is harassing homeless people and moving them around the downtown area.

Beharrell is worried that the Association’s tactics have undermined the integrity of the Tribunal process.

Personally I’m thankful that the DVBIA has come out with this. Have you ever heard of a trial whose complainant brings no evidence? Beharrell has, and she’s scared that people will find out about it.

Before I was skeptical about the Association’s claims. To me this looks like an admission of guilt on Pivot’s part.

Idiot note: Judy Parrack was the tribunal member who oversaw the McDonald’s case. Tonie Beharrell oversaw the Steyn and Maclean’s case. A previous version said otherwise. Sorry. Beharrell is nevertheless the one behind a ruling that saw a bus company punished for reforming drivers who skipped 118 working days in a year.

Christian Horizons – Not if the Ontario HRT Has a Say In It

Ontario HRT Narrowed the Horizon for Christian Organisation

[ ED NOTE: Mbrandon8026 from Freedom Through Truth was kind enough to let me crosspost this item from his blog. You can read the original here.

If this woman was dismissed in an improper fashion, then there are legitimate court procedures to seek damages. Anything else is superfluous and unnecessary, perhaps even harmful; the rather sneering tone of the Tribunal's decision shows just how impartial it truly is and always was. ]

So, you sign a code of conduct, but you don’t really mean it. No problem if you are a member of a protected group (Christians are not protected), particularly a member of the homosexual protected group. Just ask Connie Heintz. Note the common thread with Boissoin, De Valk, De Angelis. You got it.

The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, which is a puppet for the Ontario HRC produced the following press release found on the Ontario HRC web site under this title “TRIBUNAL RULES ON EMPLOYEE LIFESTYLE AND MORALITY STATEMENT”, and dated April 25, 2008:

 

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario released its decision in the case of Connie Heintz v. Christian Horizons. The decision has a significant impact for faith-based and other organizations that provide services to the general public. Such organizations must ensure their hiring policies and practices do not unreasonably restrict or exclude the employment of persons based on grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Ms. Heintz, an individual of deep Christian faith, and a model employee for five years with Christian Horizons, was providing care and support to individuals with developmental disabilities. Like other employees, when first hired, Ms. Heintz was required to sign a Lifestyle and Morality Statement, which prohibits, among other things, homosexual relationships. After several years, Ms. Heintz came to terms with her sexual orientation as a lesbian. When Christian Horizons discovered this, they advised her that she was not complying with the Statement and required her to leave the organization.

Christian Horizons describes itself as an Evangelical Christian Ministry that provides care and residential services to 1,400 developmentally disabled individuals of all races, creeds and sexual orientations. With over 180 residential homes across Ontario, and 2,500 employees, Christian Horizons is the largest provider of community living services in the province, funded almost exclusively by the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services.

The Tribunal ruled that Christian Horizons could not require its employees to sign the Statement. It found that Christian Horizons is primarily engaged in serving the disability-related needs of its clients, and the prohibition on homosexual relationships was not a legitimate job requirement for providing quality care and support to disabled residents.

In addition to awarding Ms. Heintz lost wages, general damages and damages for mental anguish, the decision sets out that Christian Horizons will: no longer require employees to sign a lifestyle and morality statement; develop anti-discrimination policies; provide training to all employees and managers; and review all of its employment policies to ensure that they are in compliance with the Code.

“This decision is important,” commented Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall, “because it sets out that when faith-based and other organizations move beyond serving the interests of their particular community to serving the general public, the rights of others, including employees, must be respected.”

 

Here is the Heintz decision.

Here’s the latest at Christian Horizons from Christianity Today.

Barbara Hall has got one thing right. “This decision is important.” blah, blah, blah. Why the decision is important for her personally, is that she has put her own salvation at risk. Maybe she doesn’t care too much today. But her actions, and this is but one of them for which she will be held accountable, in support of made up rights that invite people to continue to live in sin is in fact a curse upon herself and all those she ministers to in her ministry of hopey change.

This decision and decisions like it that persecute Christianity must serve as a rallying cry for all Christians to wake up and get on the job.

Brothers and Sisters, pray for Barbara Hall, and the other leaders of the Human Rights Industry, that they will have conversion in their hearts, respecting the unalienable and fundamental human rights of all people in this land.

Today’s Lynch List

Alright, here we go. There hasn’t been a whole lot of news to report lately, which is why the Lynch List has been incommunicado for the past couple of days.

First off, via Scary Fundamentalist: Convicts Deserve Social Justice Too:

The Human Rights racket is bankrupting our country. Granny has to wait six months longer for hip replacement so that some convict’s hurt feelings can be assuaged with your tax money.

Correctional Services Canada paid out… $200,000 for 27 settlements under the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Of course, since these are bureaucratically strong-armed “mediated settlements”, we pitiful taxpayers are not privy to the details of what horrible names these convicts were called.

Read it here.

Second, Binks of Free Canuckistan has done what he does so well yet again, with another heaping helping of links Steynian, Levantian, and Freespeechian: Steynian 396.

Third, Robert Stark writes, via the LA Nonpartisan Examiner: Organized Jewish Community’s support for hate laws will backfire:

The ADL hailed the passage of the unconstitutional “Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which according to the ADL, “provide for expanded federal involvement in investigating and prosecuting hate violence in America.” The bill is unconstitutional because it violates the 10th Amendment by granting the Federal Government authority over local and state government in prosecuting hate crimes. It violates the 14th Amendment by granting certain groups special protected status, as well the double jeopardy clause of the 5th amendment. This Bill does not provide equal protection to all Americans, instead it grants special rights to certain groups while making the rest of us 2nd class citizens.

[...]

In Canada were there are laws against hate speech, Jewish Free Speech activist Ezra Levant is concerned that the role major Jewish organizations have played in lobbying for hate speech will end up doing the exact opposite of the what these organizations claim to be fighting. “The federal anti-hate law that “official Jews” lobbied for and got passed has, 32 years later, backfired, sowing the seeds for political correctness, media chill and censorship that have undermined the values that define the Jewish People”, says Alberta lawyer, author and activist Ezra Levant.

Self Proclaimed Jewish Organizations primarily the Canadian Jewish Congress have been at the forefront for lobbying for restrictions against Free Speech. Canada has an Orwellian thought crimes enforcement Agency called the “Human Rights Tribunal .”

Read it all here. H/t to Blazing Cat Fur. Also noted by Jay’s Index.

Fourth, via Scaramouche: Value for money? What a joke!:

If you think spending eight thousand bucks to send Commissar Jennifer Lynch to a “human rights” schmoozefest in Dublin is money ill-spent, get a load of this chart (from a hot-off-the-presses CHRC report) detailing the other money purloined from the put-upon taxpayer. (No charge, apparently, for the gobbledeygook listed under the “Alignment to Government of Canada Outcomes”–but don’t forget to read the fine print because that’s where the full cost is revealed):

($ thousands)
Program Activity	2007-08 Actual Spending	2008-09				Alignment to Government of Canada Outcomes
		Main Estimates	Planned Spending1	Total Authorities2	Actual Spending
Human Rights Knowledge Development and Dissemination Program	6,190	3,631	4,026	4,041	4,375	A diverse society that promotes linguistic duality and social inclusion
Discrimination Prevention Program	5,347	6,234	6,424	6,918	6,516	A diverse society that promotes linguistic duality and social inclusion
Human Rights Dispute Resolution Program	10,456	10,743	10,743	11,928	11,478	A diverse society that promotes linguistic duality and social inclusion
Total	21,993	20,608	21,193	22,887	22,369

¹ As indicated in the 2008–09 Report on Plans and Priorities, the Planned Spending included an amount of $585,000 for the funding related to the repeal of section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This funding was not received in 2008–09, but was received in 2009–10 and also for future years.

² The 2008–09 Total Authorities represent an increase of approximately $2.3 million or 11 percent over the 2008–09 Main Estimates of $20.6 million. This difference represents funding received through the Supplementary Estimates for 2007–08 operating budget carry-forward, pay list requirements not forecasted and the salary increases resulting from the signed collective bargaining agreements.

 

You would think with all that lucre coming in on a regular basis, Jen’s racket could at least muster the largesse to pick up the tab for what have turned out to be comically misnamed “freedom of information” requests. But as we know, in the CHRC universe “freedom of information” is as chimerical as the threat of Namaimo Nazis is all too real.

Read it here.

Fifth, from Free Dominion: Marc Lemire on Hate – the early years:

Over at Jay’s Place, Dawg linked to a thread, in turn linked to an archived Nizkor thread from August 1995, which produced this enlightening exchange qualifying Dawg’s hatred for neo-nazis and zionists alike:

The Year: 1995
The Place: Two different rooms somewhere in Canada
The Players: An Unidentified Member and Marc Lemire
The Topic: Nazi’s in the Canadian Armed Forces

Quote:

Marc Lemire wrote: Unidentified Member wrote: Net-spammer and Nazi apologist Marc Lemire, with his White Power BBS in Toronto, is (according to him) a medic in the Canadian Armed Forces. I am not a Nazi apologist. Where is the proof to this bullshit! Marc Lemire wrote: Unidentified Member wrote: Without inviting a flame war, I would be interested in debate on the following: - Do Canadian citizens have an interest in just who is “standing on guard for thee”? - Was Somalia, in fact, an aberration, or is there a more general problem? Even in Somalia, Canadian Peacekeepers were reguarded as the best trained and most reliable. Untill the poor peacekeepers came home to a firestorm of critisism, they had high moral.

Read the rest here. Meanwhile, from Free Dominion: John Baglow and Michael Murphy, that’s holocaust denial!!

Finally, there’s Ezra Levant again; the testimony; unsteady Eddy; he speaks; at the crossroads; and a different Barbara Hall?

The Voice of Canadian Martyrs

Persecution of Christians – IN CANADA

[ ED NOTE: Mbrandon8026 from Freedom Through Truth was kind enough to let me crosspost this item from his blog. You can read the original here. ]

Lest we think that the faith is not being persecuted, read on. I picked this up earlier in the week, but failed to write about it. This case has gone on for some time, and is sickening to Christians.

Scary Fundamentalist: The Voice of Canadian Martyrs

Fellow free speech and Christian bloggers Scary Fundamentals and Deborah Gyapong both have jumped on this. When I read SF’s take, I could not just quote from his piece, so I have quoted it all here:

The Voice of the Martyrs is an international Christian organization in several Western nations that raises awareness of worldwide persecution of Christians and provides relief or legal aid when possible can. They routinely highlight cases in which Christians are killed, tortured, jailed, or otherwise persecuted by their government for their beliefs.

One of the cases of persecution that they have recently identified is in the backwards, third-world despotic hellhole of – wait for it – Canada.

The persecution of Canadian Christians by the government’s Human Rights apparatuses is reaching proportions not seen in many non-Christian nations. India’s government, for example did not foist such incredulous conditions on Mother Theresa’s aid organization as we have seen in Canada with Christian Horizons, which provides care and education to thousands of mentally disabled in Ontario.

This has nothing to do with the fact that CH is partly funded by tax dollars, but rather everything to do with employment contracts. As a Christian organization that sees to the spiritual development of its patients as part of the service, each employee at CH was required to sign an explicitly Christian morality code before being hired. After one employee, Connie Heintz, revealed she was in a lesbian relationship, she claims she faced harassment and pressure for her to resign, which she did in 2000.

Christian Horizons has been through this before. It was taken before the apparatchiks in 1991 for firing two employees who were in common-law relationships.

The OHRC got involved in the Heintz case, and got the Tribunal to slap CH with a generous dallop of Human Rights “remedy”(hereafter referred to as “sentence”) which will gut the entire Christian culture of the organization. The same fate is in store for any religious organization that hires anyone. The Ontario Human Rights Code’s s.24(1) contains very little protection for religious organizations, government funded or not. Essentially, churches are only allowed to specify a religious requirement for pastors, but as for everyone else they hire, no specifications on faith or morality are allowed. I wouldn’t be surprised if Barbara Hall, commissioner of the OHRC, will go one step further and advise Christian ministers to include the promotion of the state’s version of “human rights” in their sermons, as they did in Britain.

Part of the sentence is a requirement that all of CH’s employees take Human Rights reprogramming training, to abolish the “poisoned” (i.e. Christian) environment in the workplace. The organization was also punitively fined $10,000 for creating that Christian environment. So much for the “remedial” nature of the Code.

It is a sad state of affairs when Canada is now internationally recognized for its persecution of Christians.

It is more than time to stand up for the freedom to proclaim and live our faith as Christians. We must stand together against that which would prevent us from telling the truth. This is one example.

Freedom Through Truth

 What a Presumptuous Name For a Blog

[ ED NOTE: Mbrandon8026 from Freedom Through Truth was kind enough to let me crosspost this item from his blog. You can read the original here.

I wish Mbrandon a good journey; I've been following his writings for a while now, and will continue to do so. ]

When I started this blog in May 2009, I was planning on using the truth to uncover problems in the Human Rights industry. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” Sound familiar? I wrote about particular cases that caught my attention because of what I and others saw as the absurdity of the rulings that were rendered. I hope that what I wrote was true.

But along the way, I met some people, people like Stephen Boissoin who had been victimized by a system that seems more absurd the harder I look at it. As I read about Fr. Alohonse de Valk, Bishop de Angelis and Bishop Henry, whom I had some personal knowledge of previously, and Stephen, I became “chilled” by the powers of our human rights commissions to turn lies into truth for their own purposes. I was shocked, I tell you, shocked.

But, over the last few months, I have felt compelled to write about The Truth, not just things that are, or appear, true to me. I have studied Christian teaching, both Catholic and Protestant, as I have sought the nuggets of real truth that I could hold onto in this crazy mixed up world we inhabit.

I discovered that “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free,” is far deeper than I could ever imagine. It has led me inevitably to a deeper relationship with Jesus, who called himself, and I believe is, the Way THE TRUTH and the Life.

So, I have been being led to THE TRUTH, not just things that are true. I have come to a conclusion, and you may have noticed it if you are a regular reader of my blog postings. If you are a regular reader, then you are one of maybe two including me, and I thank you for coming on this journey with me.

My writing is now mostly about Faith and the Catholic Church in the faith. I said in a recent post that abortion is not the illness, but a symptom of the illness that has come over our society. As well, the insanity of the human rights industry that tries to protect us from our selves is also but a symptom of a world gone crazy.

I pray that I will be faithful to doing something that I think and hope God is calling me to do, and that is guiding myself and others closer to THE TRUTH, which is found in Jesus Christ. God has been very good to me, and I am eternally grateful for that, but that goodness is too big and important to keep under a bushel basket.

It would be presumptuous for me to think that “I” know the truth, but I do have a personal relationship with He who is THE TRUTH, and you can too.

So, rather than dealing with lies that I come across, or deceptions or things that are not as they should be, at least in my own mind, I plan to focus my energies on a more positive endeavor. I might continue to write about some human rights issues as they come up, but plan to explore my faith and the faith of our fathers, in hopes that we can all have an opportunity to embrace it and return to the life that I believe Christ is inviting us all to and indeed calling us to.

I pray that I am being and will be faithful to whatever God is calling me to do here, and I urge you to pray for me as well to that end. This Blog in turn will in a small part be my prayer for you. I am a member of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organisation of men, committed to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and so I will conclude with a greeting we sometimes use, but should probably always use with each other.

Vivat Jesus.

Why Do We Do The Things We Do?

Stephen Boissoin Tells His Why

[ ED NOTE: Mbrandon8026 from Freedom Through Truth was kind enough to let me crosspost this item from his blog. You can read the original here. ]

Stephen has a page on his web site where he answers the Why questions?

Why Do I Bother? How many times has he heard that one?

There are other whys attached to that question:

“Why do I make such a big deal out of homosexuality when there are so many other biblical wrongs prevalent in our society, even among us Christians?” And, “Why would I invest (waste, some say) almost eight years of my life battling a human rights complaint?”

To answer those questions, you have to go back to put them in context. Ah, context again. With the context of his work in youth ministry, you get to here: 

Over the years, my experience has shown me that any passionate youth worker will desire to enhance their knowledge about youth issues while endeavouring to maintain a relevant understanding of the youth culture they hope to affect. The high level of youth crisis that I regularly experienced made me especially passionate. I studied youth related psychology, physiology and peer socialization dynamics with a goal to better understand the young people I was in contact with. I researched current trends and sought out effective means of reaching and positively impacting youth. Along the way, I had a hobby of submitting numerous letters to the Red Deer Advocate on a variety of heartfelt socio-political issues. Many of them were published and on one occasion I received an award for a letter that had generated a lot of positive feedback.

What led up to the letter in question? You know, THE LETTER.

Again context is key:

 

By 2002, I had become more and more aware of the social engineering that is promulgated by our secular humanist society. Young people are encouraged to dismiss traditional Christian values and replace them with an atheistic/agnostic foundation or one that at best aims to shape God around human experience. Unfortunately, this state of thinking is already deeply rooted among young people.

While embedding myself in youth culture, I personally witnessed the psychological and physical damage that is occurring both within the normative and extreme (fringe) segments. I have witnessed young people weep while sharing regret, fear and a deep sense of hopelessness. I have witnessed countless beautiful young girls diminished to great depths of insecurity and promiscuity because they live in a society that breeds discontentment. I have prayed over teens on life support, barely alive due to drug overdoses and other substance induced tragedies. I have prayed hand in hand with countless abused and drug addicted young girls who prostitute themselves out for the next high. I have struggled to hold myself together while helpless parents wept over their drug addicted, disease infected children.

I have performed funerals for some of these precious young people.

 

You can feel his sorrow for these young people he encountered, and loved like a father loves his own children. But, along the way, he encountered burn out, as many do who feel overwhelmed by this good work they are doing, and incapable of going on. Then it happened:

 

I recall a vision that I had during this time and it was similar to an experience that I had before my own radical salvation experience. While lying face down on the floor feeling defeated and thinking that I just couldn’t manage another day of youth work, I envisioned (unintentionally) that I was at the feet of Christ, my hands touching his feet. I began to weep and sensed His deep love and compassion for me and for the circumstances I was facing. It was now apparent that I had neglected the true power and sustainability that comes from a continuous dependence on Christ as a primary and illimitable resource. I also realized that this was exactly what was required in order to meet the foundational needs of those I was reaching out to. The real impediment to their wholeness was the deep privation within us all that only God’s presence can fill. I had mistakenly placed equal dependence on secular psychology and psychiatry and had become satisfied with superficial outcomes. My own witness and trust in the power of God had been politically corralled and dumbed down and I had been completely blind to it.

I came away from that vision realizing that I needed to be true to God’s calling and purpose for my life. I was to obey Him and be who He called me to be without compromise. From that point on I made a decision to speak what the Bible speaks whenever the opportunity arose. After all, it was God’s Word and Spirit that had reached into and restored my own broken life. Since doing so, I have truly experienced God’s involvement and faithfulness in every facet of my life.

 

Here is the experience that he had with homosexuality from His Kids:

 

Fact: Homosexuality is championed in Canada today and forced upon those who disagree with this sexually immoral and aberrant behaviour. Those, like me, who voice their opposition are persecuted and prosecuted in an attempt to silence the opposition.

Society is led to believe that homosexual behaviour is predetermined. A scientifically baseless claim (see here). The truth is that the deadly and well known facts about the homosexual lifestyle are being misrepresented and intentionally avoided by most secular educators, the media and the entertainment industry. The result -socially engineered youth who think that it is a completely acceptable alternative behaviour. Due to this, they suffer an increase in homosexual experimentation and entrapment. For example, bisexual behaviour is rampant among young girls, they being further influenced (even encouraged) by misguided teenage boys who are culturally conditioned to think that female bisexuality is attractive.

 

So Why Did I (Stephen) Write This Letter? Well, that’s the $64,000 question, though anticlimactic if you can see where his experiences had led him.

Here is his reasoning:

 

I wrote the letter because I was in the midst of the crisis and could no longer remain silent.

I wrote the letter because I care about young people. I chose to enter the battle between right and wrong, to oppose the lie, endeavouring to save some.

It was a statement. An unequivocal drawing of the line. It was a call for those who knew better to get involved and voice their opposition.

I wrote the letter because I believe in the Word of God. I believe that there is one God and one Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe in what He can and wants to do through all who call upon and trust in His name. I can testify that God’s power to effect change in a broken life is real.

I am willing to look the fool and to risk further (unwanted) persecution for my beliefs.

God has used the Human Rights complaint against me to build up my faith and to reach people. The complaint has created hundreds of opportunities for me to share the wisdom of God and salvation through Christ Jesus. In response to invitations, I have travelled across Canada and into the United States. I have shared the TRUTH in newspapers, on the radio and on television and in every instance I do my best to give glory to God.

 

So, what did he conclude from all that? That’s my question>

Here’s his answer:

I wouldn’t change a thing about the journey if I could.

And the final why is found in this Bible verse at the end of the page:“

…God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
1 Timothy 2:3-4

You and I are free to disagree with him, though it might be best to talk to him first and understand why you are in disagreement. In fact, you are even free to persecute him for speaking words you do not like, or don’t want to hear. You will not stop him, and he in turn will do good towards you, out of the immense love that God has given him to share with you because of his belief that:

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Should you choose to make Stephen your enemy, because of what he says or even what he does, at some time you might feel that burning sensation around your head.