If the Bible is going to be used to bolster gay beliefs, read Leviticus 20:13-16 and stop cherrypicking the rules.
You can love your neighbour as yourself without becoming them.
School District 57 wants to take away the livelihood of Ness Lake Bible Camp because of that institution's biblical beliefs.
Similarly the various law societies of Canada are trying to destroy Trinity Western University because of its religious beliefs. Exactly where is the law in this? The same move against the Jewish or Islamic communities, or the gay community, would be met with immediate and harsh penalties.
This is creeping religious discrimination at its worst.
No company would or should be forced to hire an employee whose beliefs and aims are in direct opposition to the beliefs and welfare of that business.
I can imagine School District 57 hiring a counsellor who promoted the belief students should quit school in grade nine and experience life out on the road. Why should Ness Lake utilize a counsellor whose beliefs and aims are directly opposite to the camp's beliefs and aims?
When gays were granted secular rights in Canada, that is, rights under civil law, religious communities were assured their belief in the Bible and its teachings would not be impacted.
Gays have already forced two of the main Protestant religions, Anglicans and United, to go against the teachings of the Bible. They want public tax money used to promote their lifestyle by way of painted crosswalks.
Their flag is flown on public buildings. And CBC Radio can talk about nothing else. No other Canadians are granted these rights.
School clubs for gays are promoted and encouraged. Christian clubs are forbidden. Schools have forbidden the display of religious symbols, such as Christian crosses. Are they insisting students remove their turbans, or give up their ceremonial knives, or cast off their yamikas?
I doubt it. The outcry would be deafening. But its all right to wipe your feet on Christians.
Let gays have their lifestyle under secular law, but those who claim to work for freedom of choice should have the decency to let other Canadians hold their own beliefs, unmolested.
Dorothy Simpson, McBride
