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‘Truth about homosexuality’ pamphleteer arrested, threatened with committal to psychiatric ward

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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

Campus pamphleteer exposing ‘homofascism’ acquitted of trespassing charge

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CALGARY, Alberta , November 25, 2011 – A judge has acquitted a controversial pro-family activist from a July 2008 charge of trespassing at a Canadian university. William (Bill) Whatcott was arrested by campus security at the University of Calgary and put into a holding cell for distributing a pamphlet that addressed the “harmful consequences” of homosexuality. Whatcott,  called the ruling a “victory for all Canadians who value freedom of expression and religious liberty on our university campuses.” Judge J.D. Bascom  ruled  from the Provincial Court of Alberta on November 15th that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “applies” to the University of Calgary since “the University is not a Charter free zone.” Section 2.b  of the Charter states that everyone has the “fundamental freedoms [of] thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.”  The University had argued that the Charter only applied to “government actors and

Canada’s ‘hate speech’ provision faces the chopping block

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OTTAWA, Ontario,  – A private members bill introduced into the Canadian House of Commons is seeking to delete the controversial “hate speech” Image via Wikipedia  provision in the Human Rights Act that has been used to silence Christians and conservatives who express politically incorrect opinions. “I’ve been working with colleagues to try to make sure that we make some changes to a piece of legislation that is flawed and — quite frankly — has been abused over the last several of years,” said Conservative MP Brian Storseth (Westlock- St. Paul, AB ) who introduced the bill, to Sun News. Conservative MP Brian Storseth Bill C-304  proposes to delete  Section 13  of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) to ensure that there is no “infringement on freedom of expression” as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms . It received its first reading on September 30th, 2011. Critics of section 13 have long argued that the clause creates the precise equivalent to a ‘thought c