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Dalton McGuiny (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) OTTAWA, Ontario, April 3, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – If Premier Dalton McGuinty pushes forward his controversial anti- bullying bill, known as Bill 13, without amendments to respect the “religious and conscience rights of many parents” Ontario will face years of expensive lawsuits, warn the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in a new open letter to McGuinty. “Should your government fail to make the necessary amendments to Bill 13 to ensure its constitutionality, we share the opinion of several Canadian constitutional law lawyers that Bill 13 will be setting up the province of Ontario to likely face years of expensive, taxpayer funded litigation,” they  write . Critics say that Bill 13 threatens to undermine religious and parental freedom by bowing to the pressure of homosexual activists. A crowd of concerned parents estimated at 2,000 from a wide range of ethnic and faith backgrounds  rallied  last week outside Ontario’s legislature to pro

Image via Wikipedia OTTAWA, October 13, 2011 - A case argued before the Supreme Court yesterday, if decided the wrong way, could result in “a virtual open season on anyone communicating a religiously informed position on any matter of public policy,” according to Don Hutchinson , general legal counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada , which intervened in the case - Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ( SHRC ) v. William Whatcott.  The four-hour-long hearing had a record 21 interveners arguing both sides of a sharply divided stance on free and religious speech vs. hate speech and its interpretation by human rights commissions and tribunals. Image via Wikipedia   Hutchinson presented second to last and thus took in all the previous argumentation noting several startling positions. Saskatchewan human rights commission considers reading from Paul in Bible on TV could be hate speech The SHRC brought Whatcott before the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal in 2006 over his prac

Evangelical leaders have expressed dismay after trustees at the Toronto Catholic District School Board rejected amendments to their equity policy designed to ensure faithfulness to Catholic teaching on homosexuality. Faye Sonier In a Tuesday  blog post  Faye Sonier, legal counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada , said the board’s equity policy, which comes as part of the Ontario government ’s mandatory equity and inclusive education strategy, is part of a widespread effort to promote a “new diversity” that can only operate by excluding contrary beliefs. The policy had sparked an unprecedented mobilization of parents over fears that it will give homosexual activists a foothold in order to further subvert already weak Catholic sexual teaching in the schools. The Toronto situation, she said, is “simply one of many cases across the country where the government or special interest groups, in aggressive pursuit of a troubling alteration to the concept of ‘diversity’, attempt to cr

Image via Wikipedia Canada ’s opposition New Democrat Party is planning to resurrect a controversial transgender bill that had made it to the Senate earlier this year before getting killed by the May federal election. Bill C-389, which sought to add “gender identity” and “ gender expression ” to the Canada Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code’s hate crimes section, had passed the House of Commons in February in a narrow vote of 143-135.  The new bill will be sponsored by the NDP ’s new “ LGBTT ” critic Randall Garrison , reports the Toronto Sun. The February vote was largely along party lines, with the Conservatives opposing and the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc supporting.  Six Conservatives voted in favor, including Ministers John Baird and James Moore. The bill was opposed by numerous religious and pro-family organizations,including the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada , the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, Campaign Life Coalition , REAL Women of Canada , and the Canada F

Image via Wikipedia The New Democrat Party’s unanimously-passed resolution to call on the government to revoke the charitable status of “ex-gay” groups is a “potential attack” on all Christian charitable groups, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada warned Tuesday. “Should members of the LGBT community who, as the result of personal decision, want to discuss changing their sexual behaviour be told there’s nowhere to go?”  asked  Don Hutchinson, the EFC’s General Legal Counsel, at the Activate CFPL blog.  “Should religious charities be forbidden from providing support to those who want to converse, seek counselling or change their lifestyle?” The NDP ’s resolution,  passed  at their annual convention in Vancouver last month, called on the government to “immediately remove any charitable status currently enjoyed by ‘ex-gay’ organizations” and to ensure they are not granted such status in the future.   In his remarks, the sponsor specifically named Exodus Global Alliance , an inter

Image via Wikipedia Saskatchewan’s Premier Brad Wall last week defended his government’s  decision  not to challenge a non-binding court ruling saying that marriage commissioners must “marry” same-sex couples regardless of their religious views. The court’s judgment on the matter was clear, said Wall, according to the  Regina Leader-Post. “We appreciate and respect the rule of law and the role of courts in our society, especially in regards to the Charter, and so we’ve made our decision,” he said.  The court had said that allowing commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages” would send “a strong and sinister message” that “gays and lesbians are less worthy of protection as individuals in Canada’s society.” Faye Sonier, Legal Counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada , who has been fighting the case, expressed her disappointment with the government’s decision in  a letter  to Justice Minister Don Morgan .  “Our high court has consistently noted that the right

Image via Wikipedia The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal declared this morning that proposed legislative amendments that would have allowed Saskatchewan ’s marriage commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex “marriages” on religious grounds are unconstitutional. The Saskatchewan government had proposed two potential legislative options to deal with situations where some marriage commissioners were called before the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission or the Courts for refusing to perform same-sex “marriages”: one amendment would have permitted marriage commissioners appointed before November 5, 2004 to refuse to solemnize a marriage contrary to their religious beliefs, and a second would have allowed any marriage commissioner, no matter when they were appointed, the same right. The court said that its decision was based on section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which prohibits discrimination based on characteristics such as race and sex.  Though the Charter makes no m