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OTTAWA, Feb. 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Canada ’s Official Opposition leader is under fire Tuesday after saying traditional Christian beliefs on sexuality go “completely against” Canadian values, and even Canadian law . Thomas Mulcair , the leader of the New Democrat party, was up in arms Monday over a government grant supporting Crossroads Communications Inc.’s efforts to improve water access in Uganda because of the group’s beliefs about homosexuality. NDP leader Thomas Mulcair The three-year $544,813 grant, awarded by the Canadian International Development Agency , was targeted by a report in  The Canadian Press  on Sunday because of a page on Crossroads’ website, since removed, that called homosexuality a “sin” and a “perversion.” In response, International Cooperation Minister Julian Fantino had said payments to Crossroads would be halted pending a review, but his office said Monday that the review was complete and the grant would continue. Outside...

HALIFAX, Nov. 21, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – As Canada ’s Parliament debates what pro-family organizations have dubbed the ‘Bathroom Bill’, Nova Scotia ’s government has proposed its own version of the controversial legislation that would institute human rights protections for people struggling with “gender identity” issues. Bill 140  seeks to add “gender identity” and “ gender expression ” to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act. It was introduced on Tuesday by Ross Landry , Justice Minister for Premier Darrell Dexter ’s New Democratic Party . New Democrat Premier Darrell Dexter The measure is likely to pass as the New Democrats hold a majority, with 31 of the 52 seats in the NS House of Assembly. However, an election is expected to be called sometime in the next 18 months. Pro-family leaders have warned that such bills have unpredictable and potentially disastrous effects. In particular they say that it risks increasing the likelihood of bathroom attacks against women ...

Dalton McGuiny (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) TORONTO, Ontario , May 2, 2012  - After a weekend protest outside his constituency office over the government’s controversial “anti-bullying” legislation, Liberal House Leader John Milloy moved Tuesday to fast track the bill so it will pass by the summer. Angered over the Tories ’ efforts to filibuster debate on the bill, which has sparked a huge backlash by parents and religious leaders over concerns that it threatens parental rights and religious freedom, Milloy invoked a time allocation order to push the bill into committee after only 40 minutes debate from each party. The bill could move to committee as quickly as next week and face a final vote by the end of May. Both the Opposition Progressive Conservatives and the New Democratic Party are upset over the rare move. “This is anti-democratic at its core. We never support time allocation,” New Democrat MPP Cheri DiNovo told Xtra. The Tories have been promoting their own anti-bullyi...

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...

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...

Image via Wikipedia Delegates with Canada’s newly-minted official Opposition, the New Democrat Party (NDP), passed a resolution calling on the government to revoke the charitable status of groups that support those seeking to overcome same-sex attraction at their policy convention in Vancouver last month. Introducing the resolution, which was passed unanimously, outgoing “ LGBT ” co-chair Matthew McLaughlin specifically urged the government to revoke the status of Exodus Global Alliance , and asked that they investigate other ex-gay groups as well. “ Ex-gay organisations … take advantage of LGB people, often in vulnerable family situations or at grips with depression and self-hatred, and browbeat them — saying that LGB people never live happy lives, that we are unhealthy and unwhole, and that we never experience love and that the only hope lies in their therapies,” said McLaughlin, according to the homosexual blog Slap Upside the Head. Randall Garrison , the NDP’s “queer issues” c...