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The only way to understand the purpose of Bill C-9 — and other Christian persecution in the West — is to frame it as a hostile pagan religion imposing its will.
Leftists may claim that they work for the common good, but what really drives them is often nothing less than religious fanaticism.Case in point: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his new anti-Christian bill (C-9). Not content with the current hate speech laws in force in Canada, Carney is pushing stricter restrictions on speech with a new law that would prohibit using religious texts as a defense of speech the left deems offensive. According to a report in The Telegraph, “Bill C-9, the Act is a wide-ranging piece of legislation aimed at targeting what Carney’s government claims is ‘rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia.’”
Already, Canada punishes citizens like Derek Reimer, who called drag queen story hour events “pervert grooming sessions,” with fines and jail time while assigning mandatory training to public intellectuals like Jordan Peterson who refuse to use preferred pronouns. Presumably, they will apply these punishments to the more polite protesters who quote the Bible as their reason for disapproving of sexual fetishists and predators reading to young children. According to the minister of Canadian identity and culture, he just could not, as The Telegraph put it, “understand how the concept of good faith could be invoked in quoting such passages.”
It should go without saying that Bill C-9 will do absolutely nothing to help anyone feel safer. Although some Muslims have raised objections to the new bill, no one really believes that any Canadian resident will face legal punishment for referencing the Quran or Hadiths for rejecting transgenderism. Rather, as a protected class, Muslims will face no legal repercussions for their beliefs and can even legally charge any Christian daring to criticize the Muslim faith with Islamophobia.
Nor will Bill C-9 do anything to remedy Canada’s moribund economy, crumbling welfare state, or expanding culture of death. Bible-thumping Christians aren’t the ones facilitating mass migration from the Third World, nor are they the ones capping oil wells and giving away vast swathes of valuable land to the descendants of the country’s indigenous tribes, so punishing them won’t help. On the contrary, they represent what’s left of Canada’s dwindling middle class.
Perhaps Carney’s making a political move that will fetch him and his party more support. But while this might have made sense 10 years ago during the golden age of wokeness, such reasoning seems ridiculous now. True, many Canadians voted for Carney in the last election in order to spite Trump, but this lamentable inferiority complex held among these Canadians is not the same as full-throated support for heaping additional punishments and stigmas onto outspoken Christians. --->READ MORE HERE
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Those who insist Canada courts no danger by removing long-standing Criminal Code protections for religious speech should turn their attention to Finland, of all places.
While so-called Bill C-9 awaits sober review when the Senate returns to work April 14 after a 20-day vacation, Helsinki has been a-poppin’.
Just before Holy Week began, the Finnish Supreme Court upheld the conviction and fine of a woman who is a parliamentarian, former cabinet minister, and medical doctor. Her crime? In 2004, she wrote a small book examining the way Christian understanding of sexuality should guide Lutheran thinking about legalizing gay marriage and adoption.
According to published reports, the Court also ordered that the pamphlet written by Päivi Räsänen and her Lutheran bishop must be banned and public access to it on the Internet effectively prohibited throughout Europe.
Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola were found guilty under a “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity” statute for having “made available to the public and kept available to the public opinions that insult homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation.”
The High Court acknowledged that nothing in the booklet contained “incitement to violence or…fomenting of hatred.” Yet it still overturned two previous acquittals by a lower court and the Finnish Court of Appeal.
“What this means is that it is now illegal in Finland for Christians to defend traditional Christian teaching about homosexuality. You can’t write or speak about the matter without risking arrest. This, in Europe, in 2026,” journalist Rod Dreher wrote in The Free Press on April 1.
Dreher, who does have a reputation for making a beeline to the edge of any number of issues, is probably overstating the wholesale criminalizing of faith. He does acknowledge that Räsänen was acquitted by the Supreme Court of expressing hate speech for a 2019 social media post that quoted Roman’s 1: 24-27 on same sex relations. --->READ MORE HERE
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