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Pastor, Christian coalition violated human rights law, Alberta panel rules
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Contributor | Servo |
Last Edited | Servo Dec 07, 2007 12:26pm |
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Media | Website - CBC |
News Date | Friday, December 7, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | A former pastor and the Christian group he belonged to broke Alberta's human rights law by writing an anti-gay letter published in a Red Deer newspaper, a panel ruled Friday.
In 2002, Stephen Boissoin wrote a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate that compared gay people to pedophiles and drug dealers. It was published under the headline "Homosexual agenda wicked."
Darren Lund, a high school teacher in Red Deer at the time, complained to the Alberta Human Rights Commission that the letter was a hate crime after a gay teenager was attacked in the city.
On Friday, a commission panel decided Boissoin and the Concerned Christian Coalition of which he was executive director violated human rights law because the letter likely exposed gays to hatred and contempt. |
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