A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Anti- hate law

Dear Sir:

to'include protection. fo: homosexuals, : :
For the ‘sake- of the innacent-by- “slander j itis, ‘important,

pressed... .

as a.club: to ‘beat ‘into.
hold:to:one's -particula

behind religion and’ usé. it as Vehicle to-teach’ hate.as-

beyond the pale,” a

The, writer‘of the ‘etter cited: Romans. 1: ‘as justifica-
lion: for a particular. opinion. Romans. 1 must be prayer-
fully considered 1 in its’ entifety;, not Just a Piece. difted. out’
of the middle... vo

also. considering Romans 2 particularly through Verse,
16, -

“One: might alsu: ask: What Jesus is: tryin, to. tell us 3 in -

13?. .
: > Bor” some time, in some: religious‘circles; when one is.
_ faced with: a situation’ where ‘how one should. respond. i is ©
, unclear, the question” ‘ts asked » What: would Jesus: do? .
If the Synoptic’ Gospels’ (Matthew, Mark. and ‘Luke)

were any indication of the motive -and_ ‘focus. of Jesus’

fact that if He were: pliysically - with “us: today: ‘He would
have very,. very, little to.do' with us ‘religious. types. .
~ If-we went looking for him:we | ould, find him “‘out :
there” with the - homosexuals, ‘the! , the drug
addicts, the disenfranchised, the marginalized the’ poor:
and oppressed. -... n :

Human: nature, being: what it.is,. if He: ‘didn’ 4: ‘clean, up.
his act, get back’ in’ the fold and- toe. the. doctrinal line,
we would. eventually :becomie so terribly, angr} we: ‘would
just have to. kill him ‘Ag n

‘Dear Sir:, ;
In the past. few.

Canada we need ‘to: ‘take
control and. Start -making
our: government, more. .ac
countable.

~As [see it-they work for

“us, we don't. work: for them:

_ (but they think we do). ‘

Just ‘look at a few: things.
like: bingo. scam,’ Fast! Cat

Ferry ‘fiasco, “leniency
against drunk. driviig; dia.
_mond ‘theft; high gas: prices
at the :pump; . depletion: a
our health care; closing:
schools, ‘high - taxes, : cand
homelessness.” It just: gels
worse. ° ae ;

_ The standatds: in: gov.
‘ ernment, are, dropping be-
low. the. bottom: of thebar- 3
rel; It seems.-like. .Bovern= =~".
ment officials are immune: ~
from ‘the law. os

If. things. ‘don’t: go. “their:
way they: just: make:a-new
law to;suit themselves.

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no conspiracy |

‘Tn your. issue, June 2, “2004:; issue. you’ carried both an :
; article and a.letter to: the ‘editor regarding: Bill C-250, an
amendment broadening’ Canada’s. hate crime legislation

lo clarify - ‘that all. ‘Christians. do. riot. liold: the views Ac
Bill C: 250, is “not” partof. some: -@onsp racy ‘against

Christians. ft. may: go to-address; those: who use-the Bible. .
bmission’ anyone ‘who ‘does: nol.

‘Tt will most: assuredly : address’ those. ‘people: who: hide
one vilifies | ‘those. one, “considers, unaceeptable. and
~ And: it cannot. be ‘c risidered: with. integrity. ‘without ©:

Matthew. TA. Whal- is ‘the: Spirit® trying to ‘teach us- in
Acts 10: 9-16; OF: : Romans 8, ‘or: importantly, ICorjnthians

“regard to. an. article printed

ministry, one..would~ be ‘hard’ pressed not’. to: accept the’.

= ‘himself-- ‘a. “God-fearing”

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PRINCE GEORGE Mayor Colin Kinsley, lett, meets with. Tess Tessier and her
son, Mike Brousseau, on their cross Canada. trip. They're hoping to overturn a
federal’ law’ making it legal to > incite hatred, based on sexual vongaration.

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Heaven. forbid:: any. ‘of:
“your children.’ should: be
‘person, regardléss ‘of their:
BOX; race, culture, . or. "SOXU-. :

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a and his. powers. arid “such, ~
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