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REAL Women launches petition to protect Christians’ freedom of religion in Canada

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REAL Women of Canada has launched a petition calling on Parliament to counteract the “discrimination currently being experienced by Christians in Canada” and is gathering signatures for its September presentation in the House of Commons. The petition asks the government “to permit Christians to robustly exercise their religious beliefs and conscience rights,” which are protected under the Charter and the Canadian Bill of Rights. It requests that Parliament amend the Criminal Code sections governing assisted suicide and euthanasia and the Civil Marriage Act “to provide Christians and their faith-based institutions protection from its provisions that are contrary to their religious and conscience beliefs,” and to enact “a policy to review any new legislation” to ensure “it does not impinge upon the religious rights of Christians.” “It seems to be forgotten that Christians have as much right to express their views as LGBT activists do,” REAL Women researcher Dianne Watts told ...

‘Absolutely not accurate’: REAL Women’s Gwen Landolt slams CBC for misquote on gay death penalty

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The pro-family, pro-life conservative organization REAL Women of Canada is calling a CBC report “absolutely not” accurate that quoted president Gwen Landolt as if she tacitly approved Uganda ’s contemplation of the death penalty for practicing homosexuals. “I don’t know if the CBC did this deliberately or whether it was accidental and they misunderstood [my position],” said Landolt to LifeSiteNews.com. “My whole life I have been utterly opposed to capital punishment and I would never make homosexual execution the exception.” Landolt stated that REAL Women would “never support the death penalty in any circumstance.” “I would never ever in a hundred years say the execution of people is suitable and appropriate. Never,” she said. LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) contacted the CBC journalist who wrote the story, [name], but never received a response. Last week REAL Women  criticized   Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird , a practicing homosexual, for imposing what it...

REAL Women oppose Canadian minister’s international gay rights crusade

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OTTAWA, August 8, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Canada ’s outspoken women’s organization on life and family issues has slammed Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird for imposing what it says is “his own perspective on homosexuality” in foreign countries such as Uganda , Kenya, and Russia that have passed laws aimed at preserving the traditional family structure.  John Baird (right) and friend “Just who does John Baird think he is, using taxpayers’ money to promote his own personal agenda and endeavouring to set standards of the laws of foreign countries?” asked Gwen Landolt, National Vice-President of REAL Women of Canada , in a press release yesterday.  REAL Women criticized Baird for awarding $200,000 of Canadian taxpayers’ money by way of the Department of Foreign Affairs to special interest groups in Uganda and Kenya that promoted homosexual activity as a right.  Last October Baird  denounced  Uganda at an international summit in Quebec Cit...