NORTH AMERICAN TRADE (via Buttercup):

'Bible as hate speech' bill passes: Sponsor: 'It's been a good week for equality in Canada' (Art Moore, September 18, 2003, WorldNetDaily.com)

Canada's House of Commons passed a controversial bill yesterday opposed by religious believers and free-speech advocates who say it will criminalize public expression against homosexual behavior.

The bill, passed 141-110, adds sexual orientation as a protected category in Canada's genocide and hate-crimes legislation, which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.

"It's been a good week for equality in Canada," said the bill's sponsor, Svend Robinson, an openly homosexual member of Parliament.

The vote came just a day after MPs narrowly defeated a nonbinding motion reaffirming marriage is between a man and woman only.

Here's an idea that works for everybody: why don't Canada's Christians move South and our atheists move North?

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 18, 2003 11:32 PM