To the extent that Canadians believe it’s a good idea to adopt the tenets of a backward, hostile, alien approach to the exchange of ideas, they deserve the debasement and enslavement that surely befall all weak, stupid people.

But on the bright side if one were seeking matyrdom for the Faith, Canada would be preferable to Saudi Arabia or some other Middle Eastern country.

“But on the bright side if one were seeking matyrdom for the Faith, Canada would be preferable to Saudi Arabia or some other Middle Eastern country.”

on a more serious note, “seeking matyrdom” is as serious a sin as suicide, since they are both the same.  You will notice most the famous saints were not executed because they ran straight for the gallows in glee.

Reminds me of the story where 2 roman soldiers on patrol down a city street saw a christian man running around screaming “i am a christian!  kill me kill me!” and one soldier said to another “if the man wants death so bad, there is a cliff right over there!”

Good thing to know that whenever I’m feeling despondent about the state of things in the U.S., I just need to look northward to realize they could always be a lot worse…

Canada doesn’t exist just to make American conservatives feel better - Canada’s also good for maple syrup, hockey, and a comedian or two.

It seems to me that its a good idea to keep church and state seperate. Yet here in America we have church wanting to get involved in state.

Orwell here we come!!

We here in Canada don’t need outdated notions of free speech an individual freedoms like you have in the US. We have replaced all that with group rights. Your rights devolve from the ethnic-religious-cultural group to which you belong. All this is bound together by the unwritten rules of political correctness enforced by our Human Rights Commissions. Welcome to the New World Order

Canada may not be as right wing as the United States, but historically it has been a more conservative and cautious nation. The Crown is an obvious example, but I’m thinking even recently such as the country’s approach to the housing market or its steady management of public finances. For years now, you run the risk of political suicide if you run a budgetary deficit. Things will eventually come around on free speech too and the soft totalitarianism of the ‘Human Rights’ commissions will one day be reigned in. This will happen slowly, as things always do in Canada, but it will happen. There are rumblings of discontent now, where none existed a year ago. All that is required now is a little raising of hell and patience. And if that doesn’t work, well, you can always bomb us.

I’m to assume there are absolutely no limits on free speech in the US.
What does SCOTUS do with their time..

Considering their freedom of religious belief is being expressed in such a context (out of the realm of jurisdiction of Alberta Human Rights Commission) I don’t believe this couple should have cause to worry. Discrimination is actually still allowed in admittedly limited applications.

So ironically, if they feel their religious expression is being infringed on, they should file a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

But yeah, it sucks that anyone can feel free to lodge a complaint, and lose.

http://bluebook.state.or.us/cultural/history/history11.htm

The missionaries of the past received even more hostile treatment. (The Oregon Territory was jointly owned by the U.S. and Canada prior to the treaty that set the current boundaries.)

I think the honour goes to the artist and writer,
Wyndham Lewis, who posited the points attributed
to Tom Wolfe in 1928, in ‘Satire & Fiction.”