Christian Bigotry in Toronto???....naaah!

[DaSleeper]

Yonge & Dundas Square is like Canada’s version of Times Square in New York, with concerts, buskers, demonstrations and events — everything from Hare Krishna chants to marijuana rallies to a permanent kiosk where Muslim men hand out Korans.
All manner of artists apply to use the space at Yonge & Dundas Square. Including a group called Voices of the Nations, who have held a concert there for five years.
As a Christian choir, Voices of the Nations sings songs about Jesus. But this year, when Voices of the Nations applied for another permit, they were turned down. A Toronto bureaucrat banned the choir from performing in the public square, because their songs include the words “praise the Lord” and “there’s no God like Jehovah."
According to the bureaucrats, Voices of the Nations weren't allowed to use the square because they were promoting religion, even though there are Muslim preachers using the same space.
So: having a booth specifically for the purpose of converting people to Islam is fine under the city's "no-converting people" policy. But singing a song in a concert that happens to praise Jesus — that’s illegal.
Anyone can sing in that square. Except Christians. Anyone can proselytize in that square — except Christians. And even just singing the words "praise Jesus" is considering proselytizing — and it’s banned.
This isn't the first time Christians have been censored in this same place.
Just last year, a Christian pastor named Rev. David Lynn was charged by police with illegal “busking," for singing Christian songs at Yonge & Dundas Square — not 50 feet from the Muslim Koran kiosk. The Rebel helped recruit a civil liberties lawyer to fight Rev. Lynn’s case, and we won.


More:Anti-Christian - The Rebel


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6OQYtdDhU

 

[mentalfloss]

inb4 'they should have worn niqabs'

 

[Blackleaf]

That's "multiculturalism and diversity" for you. Rights and freedom for everybody - except the white, Christian majority. But don't dare speak out against the Left-wing religion - for that's what it is - of "multiculturalism and diversity." Doing so means you are a racist and a bigot.

What Canada really needs is a Canadian version of Ukip ("Yookip"). You could call them Cip ("Sip"). But that's not independence from the EU as it in Ukip's case (you don't need them to extricate you from the EU because, unlike Britain, you are already a sovereign state rather than part of a burgeoning and undemocratic United States of Europe). The "independence" in Cip's name could refer to winning freedom and independence for the Canadian white, Christian majority.

 

[mentalfloss]

Ezra should draw a cartoon about it and use it as a background with his super expensive green screen.

 

[Walter]

Ezra should draw a cartoon about it and use it as a background with his super expensive green screen.

Are there TV stations that don't use a cheap green screen?

 

[Blackleaf]

Are there TV stations that don't use a cheap green screen?

Channel 5, but only because it can't afford one.

 

[DaSleeper]

Are there TV stations that don't use a cheap green screen?

He's just using the usual argument of leftoids the only talking point when they have no real argument....ridicule!

 

[mentalfloss]

Obviously this is not a good thing but I wouldn't use it as some kinda stepping stone to the grand delusion that we don't live in a largely tolerant society.

But anyway, if this were about being rational, we wouldn't have these threads. :lol:

 

[DaSleeper]

Obviously this is not a good thing but I wouldn't use it as some kinda stepping stone to the grand delusion that we don't live in a largely tolerant society.

But anyway, if this were about being rational, we wouldn't have these threads. :lol:

And all your threads on Harper .....oops Official threads.... were rational???

 

[mentalfloss]

Do you think that pointing to what you believe are someone else's faults exonerates one from their own?

 

[DaSleeper]

Do you think that pointing to what you believe are someone else's faults exonerates one from their own?

You seem to!

 

[Jinentonix]

And this is surprising? Considering the idea of organized prayer in our public schools would make the Ontario Lib-Tard party choke on their cheese and crackers, they sure had no problem allowing at least one public school in Toronto to be used for islamic instruction under the guise of "religious accommodation".


It's astounding how the leftists here have interpreted multiculturalism to mean "celebrating the diversity of Canada's cultures, except the one that actually founded Canada."
It's one thing to celebrate or embrace multiculti, it's another thing entirely to cast your own culture and heritage aside to do so. And too many in the West have been the only ones stupid enough to do just that.

 

[mentalfloss]

What's stupid is taking a solitary event and assuming it represents a societal problem.

 

[DaSleeper]

What's stupid is taking a solitary event and assuming it represents a societal problem.

This is not a solitary event if you read a little bit without your ideologue blinders on!
You been talking to Cannuck too much lately.....you're starting to sound like him!

 

[mentalfloss]

Can you quantify your concerns in some meaningful way that would justify your premise that we are generally intolerant of Christians?

 

[petros]

generally?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Can you quantify your concerns in some meaningful way that would justify your premise that we are generally intolerant of Christians?

Certainly if Harper made a single mistake, you created a post about it so why would the same approach not be valid for others?

Clearly the city of Toronto has a double or triple standard and applies religious rules to Christians only. What else is there to say? Not surprising you are defending it.

 

[Serryah]

From what I've read, they were considered to be proselytizing, asked to stop and they did not, that's why they were banned. I would have thought the intelligent thing to do would be to question what it was they were proselytizing, stop that one part of it and they couldn't be banned.

Instead they broke the rules and now are getting attention for it because "OMG CHRISTIAN'S ARE PERSECUTED".

Give me a break.

I also have to ask, if Canada was founded on Christianity, what version of it should we all be following? Cause, depending on who you ask, some versions of it aren't. Just want to be sure of the one I 'have' to follow and all.

Do I think it was right they were banned? Not if they didn't do anything wrong. They should be allowed just as any others there are allowed to vomit their opinions on faith are. But if they did do something wrong... then they deserve being tossed.

 

[Ludlow]

interesting to see the end result in this "persecution complex" mind set that seems to be gaining popularity.

 

[DaSleeper]

And Muslims getting a pass for the same thing is fine by you?? ......hum....OKay