Canadian Liberals Pass ‘Anti-Christian’ Bill That Would CRIMINALIZE Quoting Parts of the Bible in Public
The Canadian Liberal government has just rammed through a bill that effectively declares war on the Bible and anyone bold enough to quote it in public.
Canada’s House of Commons passed Bill C-9, the so-called “Combating Hate Act,” in a 186-137 vote Wednesday night.
Liberals and the Bloc voted in lockstep to strip away long-standing protections for religious speech under the Criminal Code. Conservatives, the NDP, and the Greens opposed it. The bill now heads to the Senate.
The bill expands Canada’s hate speech laws and introduces new criminal penalties for what the government defines as the “willful promotion of hatred” against protected groups.
This “anti-hate” legislation guts the good-faith religious defense in Section 319 of the Criminal Code. That defense used to shield Canadians from prosecution when they expressed opinions “based on a belief in a religious text.”
According to the bill:
Rising antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia have left too many people feeling unsafe in their own communities. The Government of Canada has introduced the Combatting Hate Act to better protect access to places of worship, as well as schools, community centres and other specified places, and to more clearly address and denounce hate-motivated crime.