Quebec Government Launches All-Out Attack against “Homophobia”
By Patrick B Craine, LifeSite News
Under this policy, any religion espousing a traditional view of sexuality is indirectly labelled as "homophobic."
The Quebec Government has promulgated a new provincial policy against "homophobia," touted as the first of its kind from a North American jurisdiction. While homosexuality is already effectively fully normalized within Quebec law, the policy, released on Friday by the Ministry of Justice, is essentially a manifesto for normalizing homosexuality on the social level.
The policy's main goal, explains an accompanying summary, is "to improve conditions for sexual minorities, in order for sexual minorities to attain social equality." The phrase "sexual minorities" is used to refer to the spectrum of sexual deviances connected to homosexuality ("LGBT").
According to Justice Minister Kathleen Weil, who is also in charge of the province's "fight against homophobia," through this new policy, "Quebec society demonstrates once again that it is at the forefront in the area of human rights for sexual minorities."
The new document follows a detailed report published in March 2007 by the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission), which demanded an all-out assault against the evils of "homophobia" and "heterosexism." The 2007 report, named "From juridical equality to social equality," called first of all for such a provincial policy…
…Buscemi also warned of the potential ramifications of this new policy for religious freedom in Quebec. In one "worrisome" section, he pointed out, the policy calls for social services to be tailored to homosexual needs.
"I could see this being the beginning of the end of religious freedom in the sense that if a church, for example, is offering a service, for example marriage, and is not tailoring the service to the needs of a homosexual, then it could be sanctioned for not doing that," he explained.
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