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OTTAWA, August 23, 2012  - An openly homosexual United Church minister from Vancouver was elected as the 41st moderator of the United Church of Canada at the Protestant denomination’s General Council meeting held at Ottawa’s Carleton University last week. Rev. Gary Paterson of St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in downtown Vancouver was elected from a field of 15 nominees on August 16 to become the first openly homosexual leader of a major Christian denomination in Canada . Paterson was one of three openly homosexual candidates for the moderator’s job, which according to the  Ottawa Citizen  carries a salary of between $119,000 and $135,000 a year. Paterson succeeds the current moderator, Mardi Tindal . At a news conference following his election, Paterson acknowledged that his open homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” to Rev Tim Stevenson , another United Church minister, as well as the fact that he has three daughters from his first marriage, would be seen by many t

TORONTO, Ontario , January 9, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Premier Dalton McGuinty ’s controversial anti- bullying bill is “intentionally deceptive,” “utopian,” and “foolhardy,” says an Ontario politician with the opposition Progressive Conservatives. Tory MPP Randy Hillier In a strongly worded  op-ed  Wednesday for the Ottawa Citizen , Tory MPP Randy Hillier says McGuinty’s bill, which has been criticized by religious groups for its strong emphasis on sexual orientation, “reaches the zenith of downright stupidity” and manipulates recent suicides by homosexual teens for “political gain.” “Bill 13 is little more than a poorly disguised pacifier intended to create a perception that not only is the government acting, but is also compassionate and sympathetic toward children who are bullied,” writes Hillier ( Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington ), a former provincial Tory leadership candidate and current oppositio Image via Wikipedia n critic for both Labour and Northern Development,

Image via Wikipedia Over 100 teachers, principals and trustees from the Ottawa public school board joined about 1,600 homosexual marchers in this year’s “pride” parade held in the nation’s capital on Sunday. The public school board also provided a yellow school bus decked out in rainbow flags that led the parade. Ottawa-Carleton District school board (OCDSB) trustee Donna Blackburn, who represents the Barrhaven-Knoxdale-Merivale area and is openly lesbian, told the media she encouraged the board to publicly support the parade. “After I was sworn in, I approached the director and the board of education about the idea of doing this, and they were very supportive, and for me it was just a natural progression of what the board’s been doing for many, many years, supporting gay, lesbian, transgendered and bisexual youth,” Blackburn told CTV News earlier this month. The school’s inclusion the parade appears to have touched a nerve with local parents. In the comments section under one  CT