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Originally Posted by kn
I missed the memo where it was cool to beat up on conservative Christians. Some people on the twitter feed who purport to be tolerant of all faiths seem to get genuine glee out of doing so. I highly doubt any Muslim and Jewish candidates will garner a similar level of scrutiny. It seems we are to be tolerant except when we encounter religious views we vehemently dislike.
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If only the WRP had a candidate of Muslim or Jewish faith, then we could find out.
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Originally Posted by kn
Perhaps one of the lawyers on the board can answer this question but does a religious view of "homosexuality as a sin" constitute "hate speech"? I think that's an important question and seems to be the implication in the reaction I'm reading.
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Can't answer that question until we get a decision from the Supreme Court in
Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission v. William Whatcott, et al. (some time this year hopefully.)
In any event, in my view, its irrelevant. Statements don't have to constitute "hate speech" before the electorate can legitimately say "I don't want people who hold these views to be in charge of important decisions that affect my province." For example, I think that if a candidate openly believed in a flat earth or a 10,000 year old earth, those are also legitimate things to discuss in the context of an election campaign.