{"id":14559,"date":"2024-03-18T08:34:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/persecution-watchdogs-warning-canadian-bill-could-send-christians-to-jail-for-quoting-bible\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T08:34:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:04:25","slug":"persecution-watchdogs-warning-canadian-bill-could-send-christians-to-jail-for-quoting-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/persecution-watchdogs-warning-canadian-bill-could-send-christians-to-jail-for-quoting-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Persecution Watchdog&#8217;s Warning: Canadian Bill Could &#8216;Send Christians to Jail&#8217; for Quoting Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>A religious freedom advocate is warning that a proposed Canadian law could imperil freedom of speech and religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"482\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CCBNC3640195386\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC), a religious persecution watchdog, told CBN News proposed Bill C-367 \u201camends the criminal code and it takes away some religious exemptions that protected Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King compared the proposal to the Equality Act, a U.S. legislation that the Biden administration championed but failed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. bill\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/5\">sought to prohibit<\/a>\u00a0\u201cdiscrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system,\u201d but ignited religious persecution concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Canadian Bill C-367, King said, would create potential problems for people making biblical claims or basing objections to certain issues on the Quran or other religious sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>With these protections potentially in danger, King said the potential impact could create a similar dynamic to what is seen in more restrictive and despotic nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what the dictators and the despots do overseas to strangle Christianity or whatever faith,\u201d he said. \u201cThey say, \u2018Oh, we have religious freedom, but not in the public sphere.\u2019 So, it\u2019s the same game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch King explain:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Persecution Watchdog&#039;s Warning: Canadian Bill Could &#039;Send Christians to Jail&#039; for Quoting Bible\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gWmOLurLQeI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>King said hate speech laws are \u201calways being promoted \u2026 for the common good,\u201d but he said such provisions tend to \u201ccreate division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that hate speech laws were passed in Canada in 2003 and 2004 with protections, but warned that these caveats are now potentially on the chopping block.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy means you have freedom of speech,\u201d King said. \u201cIt\u2019s the marketplace of ideas. Everyone should be able to voice their opinion, no matter whether it\u2019s great, bad, or stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the \u201calarming thing\u201d about the current battle over Bill C-367 is that many people aren\u2019t aware of it. King warned provisions such as these are \u201cpassed quietly\u201d and with the hopes \u201cno one notices.\u201d That\u2019s why he and ICC are sounding the alarm on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re on the left, if you\u2019re on the right, if you\u2019re an atheist, Muslim \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d King said. \u201cAnybody who\u2019s in favor of freedom, which is such a precious thing and is a relatively new thing in history \u2026 it has to be guarded \u2026 there are always those willing to take it away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King is among those who have been most vocal in the debate over Bill C-367.<\/p>\n<p>A description of the proposal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parl.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/44-1\/bill\/C-367\/first-reading\">reads as follows<\/a>: \u201cThis enactment amends the Criminal Code to eliminate as a defence against wilful promotion of hatred or antisemitism the fact that a person, in good faith, expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This amendment would repeal from the Criminal Code Paragraph 319(3)\u200d(b) and Paragraph 319(3.\u200d1)\u200d(b). Section 319 (2) of the criminal code currently has a section about the \u201cwilful promotion of hatred.\u201d The\u00a0<a data-id=\"https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/acts\/c-46\/section-319.html\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/acts\/c-46\/section-319.html\">text reads<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEvery one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of:<\/p>\n<p>(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or<\/p>\n<p>(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently, there are religious protections tied to this provision. Paragraph 319(3)\u200d(b) notes no one will be convicted under an offense in Section 319 (2) if \u201cin good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A similar line exists in Paragraph 319(3.\u200d1)\u200d(b) when it comes to a provision on anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>It appears Bill C-367 was stalled and failed to advance, leading to\u00a0<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.parl.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/44-1\/bill\/C-373\/first-reading\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parl.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/44-1\/bill\/C-373\/first-reading\">Bill C-373<\/a>, a more recently introduced proposal with the same aim. Both proposals have an identical summary and target the same repeal objectives, with the latter being introduced and read Feb. 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>While King and others are sounding the alarm, some are claiming Christians\u2019 and advocates\u2019 concerns are unfounded. Read more about the history\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/canadian-bill-would-remove-religious-exemption-from-hate-speech.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2024\/march\/persecution-watchdogs-warning-canadian-bill-could-send-christians-to-jail-for-quoting-bible\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A religious freedom advocate is warning that a proposed Canadian law could imperil freedom of speech and religious liberty. Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC), a religious persecution watchdog, told CBN News proposed Bill C-367 \u201camends the criminal code and it takes away some religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}