‘Truth about homosexuality’ pamphleteer arrested, threatened with committal to psychiatric ward
CALGARY, Alberta , March 8, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bill Whatcott ’s controversial campaign to expose the harms of homosexuality has most recently resulted in him being detained by police and threatened with committal to a psychiatric hospital if he didn’t stop distributing flyers at the university of Calgary and adjoining neighborhoods. The activist had begun distributing 5000 pamphlets that criticize Alberta ’s new Education Act, and also contained photos of sexually transmitted disease infections common to those who engage in homosexual sex , when he was apprehended by Calgary police and put in jail. Bill Whatcott “The police officer initially told me he was arresting me and detaining me under a Form 10 (Alberta Mental Health Act),” Whatcott wrote on his blog , “and he told me he was going to have me committed to a psychiatric hospital.” Whatcott said that this was “reminiscent of how Christian dissidents were treated in the old USSR .” The activist claimed that while being a