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Religious liberty nonprofit blasts bill banning protests near drag shows: 'Deranged parody of public law'Canadian pastor arrested for second time after protesting drag queen storytime for kids
Jon Brown
Sun, April 9, 2023
The founder and president of a nonprofit that advocates for religious liberty in Canada blasted a proposed law in Ontario that would criminalize protests and "offensive remarks" within a football field-sized area around drag shows and other LGBTQ events.
"Liberty Coalition Canada is gravely disturbed about the rapid changes in our legal climate in Canada," Michael Thiessen, founder and president of Liberty Coalition Canada, told Fox News Digital.
Kristyn Wong-Tam, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, last week introduced the "Protecting 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Act," which would empower Ontario's attorney general to establish 100-meter "safety zones" around drag shows and other LGBTQ events. The provincial bill would make harassment, intimidation and "offensive remarks" punishable by fines up to $25,000.
Thiessen contrasted the proposed Ontario law with bills passed in U.S. states that have banned transgender procedures for minors, claiming Wong-Tam "is asking the province of Ontario to do precisely the opposite: to empower those who aim to normalize the sexualization of children and cross-dressing to appease their twisted fantasies."
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Thiessen, a Canadian who now pastors a church in Kentucky, went on to say the bill "vilifies concerned citizens and purports to criminalize peaceful protesting by using dangerously vague and cynically one-sided language describing ‘any homophobic, transphobic, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda.’"
"Any peaceful, public disagreement or moral criticism could easily be captured by such broad, subjective, politicized categories," Thiessen said.
"In reality, this bill is not about ‘protecting’ anyone from ‘hate,’ but about silencing all opposition. Whether through a chilling effect or overzealous prosecution, the result of this bill – and we suggest the intent, as well – will be the censorship of all public criticism of things like drag queens reading to children."
Wong-Tam did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
The proposed legislation resembles the Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw passed last month by the City Council of Calgary, Alberta. The bylaw prohibits protests within 100 meters of a recreation facility or library entrance. The city council also modified its current public behavior bylaw to include the term "intimidation," according to the CBC. Pastor Derek Reimer has been arrested three times for protesting drag queen story hour for children.
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Founded by clergy in January 2021, Liberty Coalition Canada's website said it is committed to "supporting Canadians who are facing unjust and illegal discrimination for exercising their lawful freedoms." The organization has been legally representing Josh Alexander, a 17-year-old who has been arrested multiple times after being suspended from his Catholic high school in Ontario last year for opposing transgender ideology.
Alexander allegedly had coffee thrown on him during a recent protest, Thiessen said, adding the bill "betrays grotesque hypocrisy, as it is most often the representation from these ‘queer’ groups themselves who incite true hatred through profanity, vulgarity and physical aggression."
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"This bill is a bare-knuckle attack on those who dare stand in the way of the rapid and unchecked allowance of child grooming and sexualization," Thiessen claimed. "Voters, parents and otherwise courageous citizens need to speak swiftly and clearly against this deranged parody of public law."
Liberty Coalition Canada was also behind an initiative last year protesting Canada's Bill C-4, which outlawed "conversion therapy." Under the terms of the bill, therapists who provide any form of counseling to repress or reduce "non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior" or "non-cisgender identity" can face up to five years in prison. The protest initiative garnered support from approximately 5,000 churches throughout North America.
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July 29, 2021: Michael Thiessen is the founder of Liberty Coalition Canada and a key participant in the efforts of the End the Lockdowns Caucus to bring politicians together to challenge the narrative and edicts of our federal and provincial governments . . . as related to lockdowns, mask mandates and coercion to force Canadians to subject themselves to experimental vaccines. He speaks with Rod Taylor about a proper understanding of Romans 13 as it relates to biblical submission to ‘rulers’ and ‘authorities’.
Pastor spends Easter in jail after another arrest at drag queen event
Canadian pastor arrested for second time after protesting drag queen storytime for kids
Jon Brown
Canadian pastor arrested for second time after protesting drag queen storytime for kids
Jon Brown
FOX NEWS
Sun, April 9, 2023
A Canadian pastor who has been arrested three times during the past five weeks for protesting drag queen story events for children spent Easter weekend behind bars for alleged hate speech.
The Rev. Derek Reimer, 36, was arrested on outstanding warrants last week while protesting near a drag story time event, according to the CBC. He now faces eight new charges, including criminal harassment, causing a disturbance and breaching his release conditions.
The Calgary police confirmed to the CBC that the charges are being investigated as hate-motivated.
Reimer, who is the pastor of the street church ministry Mission 7, was first arrested after a Feb. 25 incident during which several men physically tossed him out of Seton Library in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for protesting a Reading with Royalty event that was put on by the Calgary Public Library and featured local drag performers reading to children.
He was arrested a second time on March 15 in a parking lot across the street from Signal Hill Library in Calgary, video of which shows police cuffing him and dragging him across the asphalt before hauling him away in a police vehicle. He was charged with breaching a release order that prohibited him from communicating with self-identified LGBTQ people or being within 200 meters of events involving the LGBTQ community.
Reimer's most recent arrest took place after he allegedly caused a disturbance and engaged in criminal harassment during a Reading with Royalty event at the Country Hills Library in Calgary.
Police said Reimer showed up with a microphone and shouted hate speech at event participants, according to the CBC. When the pastor reportedly entered the library and requested to speak with a manager, he allegedly made derogatory comments, engaged in hate speech and harassed the manager and staff, leaving them feeling concerned for their safety.
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Reimer was also charged with causing a disturbance last Sunday outside the Saddletown Library, where police reportedly recorded him shouting things with a microphone that offended participants at the drag queen story time.
Shortly after Reimer's first arrest, the Calgary City Council passed the Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw, which prohibits protests within 100 meters of a recreation facility or library entrance. The council also modified its public behavior bylaw to include the term "intimidation," according to the CBC.
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The Rev. Artur Pawlowski, who knows Reimer and made international headlines himself when he was repeatedly arrested and jailed for keeping his Calgary church open during the pandemic, told Fox News Digital that Reimer's arrests indicate the government's "open hatred toward Christianity."
Since drag queen events involving children have sprung up in Calgary, Pawlowski said Reimer "decided he felt that God is calling him to expose that, to stand against that."
"I've warned Canadians for a very long time – and I'm warning Americans as well – that you will be ruled by what you tolerate," Pawlowski said. "If you tolerate corruption, you will be ruled by corruption. If you tolerate perversion, you will eventually be ruled by perversion."
Sun, April 9, 2023
A Canadian pastor who has been arrested three times during the past five weeks for protesting drag queen story events for children spent Easter weekend behind bars for alleged hate speech.
The Rev. Derek Reimer, 36, was arrested on outstanding warrants last week while protesting near a drag story time event, according to the CBC. He now faces eight new charges, including criminal harassment, causing a disturbance and breaching his release conditions.
The Calgary police confirmed to the CBC that the charges are being investigated as hate-motivated.
Reimer, who is the pastor of the street church ministry Mission 7, was first arrested after a Feb. 25 incident during which several men physically tossed him out of Seton Library in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for protesting a Reading with Royalty event that was put on by the Calgary Public Library and featured local drag performers reading to children.
He was arrested a second time on March 15 in a parking lot across the street from Signal Hill Library in Calgary, video of which shows police cuffing him and dragging him across the asphalt before hauling him away in a police vehicle. He was charged with breaching a release order that prohibited him from communicating with self-identified LGBTQ people or being within 200 meters of events involving the LGBTQ community.
Reimer's most recent arrest took place after he allegedly caused a disturbance and engaged in criminal harassment during a Reading with Royalty event at the Country Hills Library in Calgary.
Police said Reimer showed up with a microphone and shouted hate speech at event participants, according to the CBC. When the pastor reportedly entered the library and requested to speak with a manager, he allegedly made derogatory comments, engaged in hate speech and harassed the manager and staff, leaving them feeling concerned for their safety.
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Reimer was also charged with causing a disturbance last Sunday outside the Saddletown Library, where police reportedly recorded him shouting things with a microphone that offended participants at the drag queen story time.
Shortly after Reimer's first arrest, the Calgary City Council passed the Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw, which prohibits protests within 100 meters of a recreation facility or library entrance. The council also modified its public behavior bylaw to include the term "intimidation," according to the CBC.
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The Rev. Artur Pawlowski, who knows Reimer and made international headlines himself when he was repeatedly arrested and jailed for keeping his Calgary church open during the pandemic, told Fox News Digital that Reimer's arrests indicate the government's "open hatred toward Christianity."
Since drag queen events involving children have sprung up in Calgary, Pawlowski said Reimer "decided he felt that God is calling him to expose that, to stand against that."
"I've warned Canadians for a very long time – and I'm warning Americans as well – that you will be ruled by what you tolerate," Pawlowski said. "If you tolerate corruption, you will be ruled by corruption. If you tolerate perversion, you will eventually be ruled by perversion."
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