Rev. Stephen Boissoin vindicated: court upholds right to express views on homosexuality
CALGARY, October 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pastor Stephen Boissoin , who was found guilty in 2007 by a provincial human rights tribunal of “hate speech” for writing a letter to the editor expressing his views on homosexuality , has been strongly vindicated after the Alberta Appeals Court dismissed an appeal of a lower court decision in Boissoin’s favor. The court also ordered Boissoin’s accuser, homosexual activist Dr. Darren Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary , to pay Boissoin’s attorney fees. Appeals Court Justice Clifton O’Brien concurred with the lower court that Boissoin’s letter “was not likely to expose homosexuals to hatred or contempt within the meaning of the Alberta statute.” Pastor Stephen Boissoin In 2009, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Earl C. Wilson overturned the 2007 ruling by the Alberta Human Rights Commission ( AHRC ), which ordered Boissoin to desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in any sort of public