According to a release by Zenit on Tuesday, the Canadian Human Rights Commission is investigating the Canadian magazine, Catholic Insight, for publishing articles seen as offensive to gays and lesbians. A complaint filed by Rob Wells, a member of the Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Pride Center of Edmonton, accuses the magazine of promoting "extreme hatred and contempt" against homosexuals. Catholic Insight editor Father Alphonse de Valk said some of the challenged statemets were from recent Vatican pronouncements. Others were political statements, medical studies, and news reports, a number of which focused on the campaign in Canada to legalize same-sex marriage.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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If you do not agree with the gay/lesbian community you are labeled to be homophobic!
Has anyone ever considered that they are hetrophobic?
This report is not true. The human rights complaint alleges that the messages communicated by Alphonse de Valk and his Catholic Insight webstie are likely to expose gays and lesbians to hatred or contempt, which is a discriminatory practice proscribed by section 13. (1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Exposing a vulnerable group to hatred, contempt and even violence is illegal in Canada, and, I would also think is unChristian as well
The Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissal of the case against Fr. de Valk is being appealed by the Complainant.
Catholic Insight also faces attack on yet another front. You will be interested to know Catholic Insight has been put on a Heritage Canada watch list for communicating Church doctrine it deems denigrating to homosexuals, Catholic Insight may lose it's postal subsidy as a result. Heritage Canada has no difficulty funding a Gay Pornography magazine receiving the same subsidy however.
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2008/08/heritage-canada-letters-to-catholic.html
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