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Erik Stanley: Oh Canada! The homosexual agenda steamrolls religious freedom

By Alliance Alert

ADF attorney Erik Stanley writing at Speak Up Movement / Church: "The court held that allowing marriage commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex 'marriage' ceremonies would violate the 'Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms' because it 'would violate the equality rights of gay and lesbian individuals.' In asummary of the opinion, the Court described its holding by stating, 'The Court held that accommodating the religious beliefs of marriage commissioners could not justify discrimination against gay and lesbian couples.' Well what about the religious freedom afforded Canadians in its Charter? The Court had a chilling answer to that as well. It said that 'the obligation to solemnize same-sex marriages does not affect or interfere with the core elements of a commissioner?s religious freedom: the freedom to hold beliefs and the freedom to worship.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 12, 2011 (boomark / email).