Authoritarian Canada again
Americans
for Truth About Homosexuality founder Peter LaBarbera has returned to
the U.S. from Canada, where he experienced the ramifications of that
country's hate speech law – firsthand.
LaBarbera traveled to
Saskatchewan last week for a speech before a pro-life group, but was
detained at Regina International Airport and told he would be deported
from Canada on the basis of violating the country's hate speech law,
although he had yet to speak.
LaBarbera, Peter"Which is
incredible," he tells OneNewsNow. "We appealed the decision and some
political pressure was brought to bear by conservative members of
Parliament; and when I went back for my appeal, they let me in [the
country] – but I was very close to being banned from Canada under the
guise that my group ... promotes hate against homosexuals."
He
was released, then made his speech, but later was arrested at the
University of Regina while distributing pro-life pamphlets and
information on homosexuality. LaBarbera wasn't accused of violating the
hate speech law in that matter, but was charged with trespassing – a
charge that later was reduced to mischief.
"So what I witnessed
was a firsthand lesson in hate-speech politics," he summarizes. "If you
say that certain ideas – for example, opposition to homosexuality – are
'hateful,' then the next step is to ban those points of view. And that's
what's going on in Canada."
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