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Thank God for the First Amendment. This is censorship out of control. If a law makes it illegal to publicly express an opinion against an issue, we are all in trouble. This could apply to anything, not just homosexual behavior. I really hope that we don't ever decide to compromise our Constitution with something like this. To do so would jeopardize all of our freedoms.
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I think you're overreacting, which is apparently the goal of the article, judging from the title. Canada has outlawed hate speech for a long time, this is just updating the law for the times.
They couldn't possibly classify the bible as hate speech. The hate speech comes in when some misguided thumper takes out an ad implying that homosexuals are perverts. Hate speech sums that act up quite nicely. I'll shed no tears at the thought of some bigot being robbed of his/her ability to spread a narrow-minded, hateful interpretation of the bible.
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He said many people are beginning to consider its potential implications. If my son went to school and said homosexuality is not a healthy lifestyle, let alone a perversion or a sin, and they asked where did you hear that, there is the possibility I could be held liable," Rushfeldt said.
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What business does this fella's fon have going to school and telling anyone that their lifestyle is "immoral" or "unhealthy"? What if his kid was going to school and claiming that all blacks were lazy and untrustworthy? This guy's a jackass, regardless of what he bases his beliefs on. It doesn't matter what what you believe, there is no reason to go into what should be a neutral setting and polarize it with hateful statements.