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Freedom of Religion in Canada?
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/default.aspx?mid=800&cid=3315

"One of the two doctors being sued at North Coast referred Benitez to an outside physician who eventually performed a successful in vitro fertilization procedure that resulted in pregnancy. The two doctors have a policy against performing the procedure themselves on unmarried women; however, they agreed to provide all of the pre- and post-natal care as well as absorb any of the costs Benitez incurred as a result of the referral. Benitez filed suit against North Coast six months after becoming pregnant."

http://www.realwomenca.com/press.htm

"In addition, the federal government knows that in every case where religious rights have competed with homosexual rights, the Supreme Court of Canada has ordered the trumping of homosexual rights over religious rights. The parade of cases to diminish religious rights on same-sex marriage issues has already commenced with a BC lesbian couple claiming discrimination because a Catholic men's organization, the Knight's of Columbus, has refused to rent their hall for their marriage celebration."

http://www.christianity.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/1,,PTID23682%7CCHID125044%7CCIID586916,00.html

"PCANews - The National Post reported about a ruling released in June by a one-woman board of inquiry of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission that effectively declared several biblical passages to be hate speech. Valerie Watson, a Saskatoon lawyer, ruled a 1997 advertisement in The StarPhoenix exposed, or would "tend to expose homosexuals to hatred and ridicule." The ad, placed by evangelical Christian Hugh Owens, cited four biblical passages that support the view that active homosexuality is a sin."

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031117-104249-1352r.htm

" "I believe those interests supersede one parent's freedom to practice her religion," said Mr. Campbell, who heads the Colorado Clergy for Equality in Marriage, which backs homosexual "marriage.""

http://www.cultureandfamily.org/articledisplay.asp?id=600&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport

" a Canadian judge last week forced a Catholic high school district to allow a homosexual prom date, in violation of the district’s mandate to uphold church teaching against homosexual acts. Both sides have vowed to take the case all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court."

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33007

""This change in the common law is not an incremental step – today the court has fundamentally redefined marriage," said Bruce Clemenger, president of the EFC. "Other courts have ruled that redefining marriage is too big a step to be made by the courts and should properly be made by Parliament."

The Interfaith Coalition includes Roman Catholics, Evangelical Protestant Christians, Muslims and Sikhs."

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32042

""Gay" activists are pushing an agenda in Canadian schools aimed to have students, teachers and principals "celebrate" homosexual and transgendered people, reports the Vancouver Sun. "

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42502

"Illinois churches are protesting a new state law that bars them from "discriminating" against homosexuals, contending it robs Christians of their First Amendment freedoms."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20040412.shtml


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http://www.realwomenca.com/newsletter/2003_mar_apr/article_8.html

"The College began its campaign in March 1999 when the BC Teachers' Federation passed a resolution in support of the development of programs to eliminate "homophobia" and heterosexism in the schools. This program called for pro-homosexual themes in every grade from kindergarten to grade 12 in every curriculum area. (This must have been a challenge for the woodworking classes.) Thousands of dollars in union funds were spent in publishing and distributing this program and its resources. The program instructed children that homosexual behaviour is normal and acceptable, and morally equivalent to heterosexuality. The program includes the statement, "We must dishonour the attitude that heterosexuality is the only acceptable orientation." The propaganda also depicts the Biblical characters David and Jonathan as a homosexual couple."

http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1997/may19/7t6053.html

"Canadian Donna Lindquist wants to be an elementary school teacher, and she believes the training she is receiving at Langley's Trinity Western University (TWU) will qualify her to teach in the British Columbia school system.

But there is a problem. Last June, the province's accrediting agency denied TWU's application to fully certify its teacher-education program. Although the academic program passed muster, the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) determined the school's policy on homosexuality to be "discriminatory" and "contrary to the public interest."