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Canadian Panel Orders Pastor To Stop Publishing Anti-Gay Remarks

By Howard M. Friedman

Life Site News today reports that a panel of the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission has issued its Decision on Remedy in the case of pastor Stephen Boissoin who had previously been found by the Commission to have incited hatred against homosexuals through a letter of his that was published in the Red Deer Advocate. (See prior posting.) In Lund v. Boissoin, (Hum. Rts. Panel AB, May 30, 2008), the Commission awarded $5000 in damages and ordered that "Mr. Boissoin and The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. shall cease publishing in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals" and that "Mr. Boissoin and The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. provide Dr. Lund with a written apology for the article in the Red Deer Advocate which was the subject of this complaint."

Full post as published by Religion Clause on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).