Catholic Insight is being sued by the infamous Canadian "Human Rights Commission"
and so far for a quite small Catholic periodical has paid six thousand dollars in legal fees to defend themselves with no court date in sight. The "hate crime" is related to denunciations of homosexual activism (not individual persons) and upholding the Church’s teaching.
Kathy Shaidle who linked to this article is also being sued along with four other Canadian bloggers for speaking out against free speech thug Richard Warman the human rights lawyer who specializes in separating humans from their rights.
The picture to the right is one of Richard Warman, or at least I assume that someone with such a thin skin would look like this.
Free Mark Steyn! is keeping track of all of the shenanigans going on in Canada right now. I also wonder if the Human Rights Commission sharing the same initials with Hillary Rodham Clinton is just a coincidence?
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“Your Bill of Rights was inspired by God”#(Kathy : 2008-04-13 09:38:48 EDT)
Right…
The CHRC is the biggest load of junk that has ever come out of Canada. I will be honest, not much good HAS come out of Canada, but the CHRC is a perfect example of the problem of a false view of tolerance we hold here in Canada.
Now, the interesting thing is that the CHRC holds no true legal jurisdiction. It is a quasi-judicial board and has been set up in order to seem as to be enforcing things that are not truly enforcable by the law. It makes judgments based on its view of tolerance, which states that everything must be tolerate, except for opinions that are contrary to their own.
If you want some entertainment, look on Youtube for Israel Levant.
I wish I knew something about Canadian Civil Procedure. But then again, if this is the sort of thing that goes on in Canadian courts, maybe I’m glad that I don’t have any reason to know Canadian law . . .
Paul, the problem to date is that the Human Rights Commissions don’t follow Canadian Civil procedure. Catholic Insight isn’t exactly being sued. The original complainant just had to make a complaint, and then they walk away, and the Commission investigates, tries, and judges Catholic Insight, all expenses paid by the government.
The only upside is that the Canadian media has finally started to discover the outrage, and the Commissions haven’t found many defenders. Much of the Canadian Left, now that they’re finally paying attention, are against the Commissions too. So we hope there’ll be change soon, if we keep hollering.
This poisonous “human rights commission” system has also apparently infected parts of the US. New Mexico has one and it has fined a private business owner for refusing to photograph a same-sex marriage on religious grounds. See: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/008479.html
(which is the blog of one of the individuals being sued for libel by R. Warman)