Last Friday, Ezra Levant testified in front of the Unites States Congressional Human Rights Caucus. Today’s quote is an excerpt.
Canadian human rights commissions, however, are not respectful of the sensitivities of all religions. Less politically correct faiths are regularly prosecuted by them. This May, an Alberta pastor named Stephen Boissoin was given a lifetime gag order, never to say anything critical of homosexuality – not in a church sermon, not even in private e-mails. As well, in what can only be called a Maoist verdict, he has been ordered to renounce his religious beliefs, and to publish a self-denunciation in the local newspaper.
This is Canada we’re talking about. Not Iran, not China, not Cuba.
How did this happen? How did Canadians lose their rights, on the one hand, to criticize radical Islam, and on the other hand, lose their rights to practice Christianity?
The answer is a combination of good intentions and bad intentions.
Ezra Levant
He goes on to list that the “good intentions†came first.
For some reason, I doubt that the most of the members of the caucus let this testimony sink in, and are fully willing to pass inane and invasive laws with their good intentions on their sleeves for all those with bad intentions to see.
Read the whole thing.