Religious liberty nonprofit blasts bill banning protests near drag shows: ‘Deranged parody of public law’

The founder and president of a nonprofit that advocates for non secular liberty in Canada blasted a proposed legislation in Ontario that will criminalize protests and “offensive remarks” inside a soccer field-sized space round drag exhibits and different LGBTQ occasions.

“Liberty Coalition Canada is gravely disturbed concerning the fast adjustments in our authorized local weather in Canada,” Michael Thiessen, founder and president of Liberty Coalition Canada, instructed Fox Information Digital.

Kristyn Wong-Tam, a member of the Legislative Meeting of Ontario, final week introduced the “Protecting 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Act,” which might empower Ontario’s lawyer common to determine 100-meter “security zones” round drag exhibits and different LGBTQ occasions. The provincial invoice would make harassment, intimidation and “offensive remarks” punishable by fines as much as $25,000.

Thiessen contrasted the proposed Ontario legislation with payments handed in U.S. states which have banned transgender procedures for minors, claiming Wong-Tam “is asking the province of Ontario to do exactly the other: to empower those that goal to normalize the sexualization of kids and cross-dressing to appease their twisted fantasies.”

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Thiessen, a Canadian who now pastors a church in Kentucky, went on to say the invoice “vilifies involved residents and purports to criminalize peaceable protesting through the use of dangerously imprecise and cynically one-sided language describing ‘any homophobic, transphobic, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda.’”

“Any peaceable, public disagreement or ethical criticism might simply be captured by such broad, subjective, politicized classes,” Thiessen mentioned.

“In actuality, this invoice just isn’t about ‘defending’ anybody from ‘hate,’ however about silencing all opposition. Whether or not by way of a chilling impact or overzealous prosecution, the results of this invoice – and we advise the intent, as effectively – would be the censorship of all public criticism of issues like drag queens studying to kids.”

Wong-Tam didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

The proposed legislation resembles the Secure and Inclusive Entry Bylaw handed final month by the Metropolis Council of Calgary, Alberta. The bylaw prohibits protests inside 100 meters of a recreation facility or library entrance. The town council additionally modified its present public conduct bylaw to incorporate the time period “intimidation,” in line with the CBC. Pastor Derek Reimer has been arrested 3 times for protesting drag queen story hour for youngsters.

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Drag Queen Story Hour is held on the West Valley Regional Department Library on July 26, 2019, in Los Angeles. (David McNew/Getty Photos)

Based by clergy in January 2021, Liberty Coalition Canada’s web site mentioned it’s dedicated to “supporting Canadians who’re dealing with unjust and unlawful discrimination for exercising their lawful freedoms.” The group has been legally representing Josh Alexander, a 17-year-old who has been arrested a number of instances after being suspended from his Catholic highschool in Ontario final 12 months for opposing transgender ideology.

“This invoice is a bare-knuckle assault on those that dare stand in the way in which of the fast and unchecked allowance of kid grooming and sexualization.”

Alexander allegedly had espresso thrown on him throughout a latest protest, Thiessen mentioned, including the invoice “betrays grotesque hypocrisy, as it’s most frequently the illustration from these ‘queer’ teams themselves who incite true hatred by way of profanity, vulgarity and bodily aggression.”

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“This invoice is a bare-knuckle assault on these who dare stand in the way of the fast and unchecked allowance of kid grooming and sexualization,” Thiessen claimed. “Voters, dad and mom and in any other case brave residents want to talk swiftly and clearly in opposition to this deranged parody of public legislation.”

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Liberty Coalition Canada was additionally behind an initiative final 12 months protesting Canada’s Invoice C-4, which outlawed “conversion therapy.” Beneath the phrases of the invoice, therapists who present any type of counseling to repress or cut back “non-heterosexual attraction or sexual conduct” or “non-cisgender id” can resist 5 years in jail. The protest initiative garnered help from roughly 5,000 church buildings all through North America.