Alberta pastor convicted of hate speech appeals Human Rights Commission ruling

Alberta pastor convicted of hate speech appeals Human Rights Commission ruling...

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LifeSiteNews.com reported on July 7, 2008:

Alberta Pastor Steve Boissoin has filed an appeal to the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal ruling that convicted him of hate speech. The pastor was found guilty last November of having written a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate that was "likely" to expose homosexuals to hatred.

The appeal was filed on June 26 with the Queen's Bench of Alberta.

A hearing has preliminarily been set for September 9, although that date could change during negotiations between the involved parties.

LifeSiteNews spoke with Boissoin's attorney, Gerald Chipeur, who said that he is confident that the court will grant the appeal and overturn the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal's decision.

"We are very optimistic, because the Constitution is so clear," said Chipeur. "We were surprised to have lost before the Tribunal, but we believe that the courts will conclude that there has been a violation of the constitutional rights of our client. We feel very confident in our arguments, and we do expect the courts to intervene and reverse the decision."

Chipeur said his confidence was based on the fact that, "the courts have always seen themselves as the defenders of the oppressed. The context and the experience of the courts will lead them to accept our arguments."

Boissoin's appeal seeks a reversal of the Tribunal's decision as well as the awarding of appropriate damages.

Last month the Alberta Tribunal issued a remedy ruling that ordered Boissoin to pay $7,000 in fines, to never speak disparagingly about homosexuality or about the complainant Darren Lund, and to apologize to Lund in a letter to be published in the Red Deer Advocate. Besides the sum of the fines, Boissoin has also had to spend many tens of thousands of dollars in defending himself against Lund's complaint since the case began.

The appeal filed with the Queen's Bench criticizes the Tribunal's decision on numerous points, including the nature of the remedy ruling, for which the Tribunal is accused of having "exceeded the limits of its jurisdiction and the constraints of law, natural justice and the Charter."

In particular the appeal criticizes the Tribunal for "awarding damages to Darren Lund and Janet Dodd, neither or whom were mentioned in the Complaint or victimized or injured by the Letter," amongst other points.

As Chipeur explained, it is also highly unusual for the Tribunal to have ordered Boissoin, in its remedy ruling, not to speak negatively about Lund, when Boissoin was never accused of having done so in the first place. "Our client wasn't speaking in the past in that way, so we're shocked to find that kind of limitation in place when our client was not accused of doing that, and, in fact, did not do that."

Chipeur concluded his interview with LifeSiteNews, saying that, in his opinion, the Human Rights Commissions, in prosecuting "hate speech" at all, have turned human rights laws "on their head" and have made them "a weapon against the individual."

"I find the [Boission] decision to be frankly an aberration after a long history over the last two decades of the courts standing up for freedom of religion and expression based upon the Charter," he said. "Ever since 1982 there's been a new approach which is individual freedom comes first, and it doesn't matter what the government wants to do, the government must respect individual freedom. And that has generally been the trend."

"But over the last year there has been a reversal of that trend," he continued. "It's surprising that human rights laws, which were also meant to protect individuals have in fact been misused, turned on their head, and used to take away freedom.

"When you apply human rights laws to landlords and employers, organizations that are in positions of power, you can see how, yeah, that makes sense. They have a position of power and we need to defend the powerless. But when you take those same human rights laws, and instead of applying them to government or to employers or landlords, we now start using them as a means to have a witch hunt in the community, and start to control what people think and say, then you can easily see how what was intended to be a protection for the individual then becomes in fact a weapon against the individual."

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Alberta's Conservative Government Sought Conviction of Christian Pastor for "Hate Speech"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08061603.html

Interview with a Persecuted Christian Pastor
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08061203.html

Alberta Pastor Fined $7000 and Ordered to Publicly Apologize and Remain Silent on Homosexuality
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08060902.html

Alberta Human Rights Tribunal Rules Against Christian Pastor Boissoin
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07120306.html

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Says he won't apologize - "I stand by what I said" - will appeal decision

Alberta pastor fined $7000 and ordered to publicly apologize and remain silent on homosexuality...

LifeSiteNews.com reported on June 6, 2008:

On Friday, the Alberta Human Rights Commission ordered Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin to desist from expressing his views on homosexuality in any sort of public forum. He was also commanded to pay damages equivalent to $7,000 as a result of the tribunal's November decision to side with complainant and homosexual activist Dr. Darren Lund. The tribunal has also called for Boissoin to personally apologize to Lund via a public statement in the local newspaper.

The remedy order demands the pastor to pay $5,000 to Lund personally for the "time and energy" he has expended and for the "ridicule and harassment" he has faced. Combined with that financial burden, Boissoin must also pay up to $2,000 in expenses to one of Lund's witness, provided she produces records of such costs.

Boissoin was first hauled before the Human Rights Commission to answer to a complaint filed by Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. Lund made his complaint after Boissoin published a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate, in which he denounced homosexuality as immoral and dangerous, and called into question new gay-rights curricula permeating the province's educational system.

"Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights," wrote Boissoin in the letter.

In an interview, Boissoin told LifeSiteNews.com that he's under attack not only for his letter, but more significantly for his beliefs.

"The point I am trying to make here is what's being attacked at the core is what I believe, according to my personal beliefs and my religious beliefs."

The most shocking aspect of the ruling calls for Boissoin to "cease publishing in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals." Boissoin wondered to what extent the right to freedom of expression in Canada will be deteriorated, stating, "I am not allowed to hold on to my views."

The pastor also maintained that his beliefs are founded not on hate or malice, but derive from a personal concern for the family and society rooted not only in faith, but also in science.

"I am not allowed to hold my views, but the Lunds of the world are allowed to bring gay ministers into schools, they are allowed to present scientifically baseless teachings to kids that people are born gay."

"I am all for tolerance, I don't want to see anyone who calls themselves homosexual be discriminated against," added Boissoin. "At the same time I believe it is a behaviour, there is no scientific proof that anyone is born gay, but these teens are taught in our school systems that that is the way it is, that people are born homosexual."

Boissoin then addressed the potential implications of what he called a scientifically baseless pro-homosexual curriculum being taught in schools, stating, "When you deem something acceptable, you increase the likelihood that they will participate in that, and that's a great concern to me."

Boissoin also mentioned how he was continually defamed by Lund in another local newspaper, which either refused to publish Lund's rebuts or edited them severely.

He concluded by commenting on the Remedy order and the entire ordeal, which over the last six years has consumed tremendous time, energy and money - both from the pockets of taxpayers and Boissoin.

"Absurd - beyond absurd. I will never make a public apology; I stand by what I said. My context has never been taken into consideration, Lund's context has always been taken into consideration."

This will not be the last edition to the Boissoin story as he admitted to LifeSiteNews.com that he "will be appealing to an actual court of law."

Boissoin's is the latest in the string of actions by human rights commissions at both the national and provincial levels which have the nation in an uproar over the dire threat to freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

The Alberta government, which created the human rights commission, has ultimate authority over the Commission and its mandate, rules and who is appointed to the commission.

To Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach:

Office of the Premier
Room 307, Legislature Building
10800 - 97th Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
T5K 2B6
Phone: (780) 427 2251
Fax: (780) 427 1349

Link to Alberta Human Rights Commission Remedy order for Stephen Boissoin:
http://www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca/Lund_Darren_Remedy053008...

See related coverage:

Alberta Human Rights Tribunal Rules Against Christian Pastor Boissoin
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07120306.html

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