I agree with you 100%. Unless you breach the four commonly accepted pillars of free speech - Defamation, Libel, Slander and Incitement - you should be allowed to say absolutely ANYTHING you want to. Period.
I wish I knew what to do about this. It's a case of little brother being picked on by the bullies and the grownups aren't doing a blessed thing to stop it from happening.
I sometimes think that I should have gone into law shchoool so I could fight this up to the supreme court. I'm sure that pro-life groups aren't the only victim of this sort of thing - but student unions are being permitted to decide for everyone else what is tolerable beliefs and which beliefs they won't tolerate.
And that sort of intolerance is what is truly intolerable.
I'm under the impression that it is considered a hate crime to say "Homosexuality is a sin" in public, which can get you arrested and charged. Is that right?
What we need in Canada is a "1st amendment" A law that dictates that you have the right to promote your view and have your say - even if I disagree with it.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does indeed protect freedom of speech, just like the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Unfortunately, I don't know whether the Charter applies to student unions that enact speech codes or selectively deny access to clubs. In the popular mind, if not legally, it's certainly regarded as inequitable and unjust.
Well, CUSA blinked last year. So let's see what happens in this situation.
CUSA's motion was tabled but didn't pass - largely because the local/national media made a big stink about it.
I don't think this made quite as big of a media splash, so it was too easy for a majority of pro-choice students to say "we're more than you and we don't like you so you can't come to our party"
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I sometimes think that I should have gone into law shchoool so I could fight this up to the supreme court. I'm sure that pro-life groups aren't the only victim of this sort of thing - but student unions are being permitted to decide for everyone else what is tolerable beliefs and which beliefs they won't tolerate.
And that sort of intolerance is what is truly intolerable.
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And I would certainly hope that a secular government isn't getting into the business of defining what is and isn't sin.
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What we need in Canada is a "1st amendment" A law that dictates that you have the right to promote your view and have your say - even if I disagree with it.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does indeed protect freedom of speech, just like the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Unfortunately, I don't know whether the Charter applies to student unions that enact speech codes or selectively deny access to clubs. In the popular mind, if not legally, it's certainly regarded as inequitable and unjust.
Well, CUSA blinked last year. So let's see what happens in this situation.
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I don't think this made quite as big of a media splash, so it was too easy for a majority of pro-choice students to say "we're more than you and we don't like you so you can't come to our party"
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