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Kudos to CHBC (Global) Kelowna

CHBC management made a decision not to air an advocacy commercial even though it had been given a broadcast number by Telecaster, a broadcast commercial clearing house.

The ad was paid for by a BC anti-abortion group called Kelowna Right for Life, and it is probable the group was attempting to garner some pre-Olympic attention.
CHBC general manager Dennis Gabelhouse:

Gabelhouse said from what he knows, the ad was created in the U.S. in 1989 and has never actually aired on North American television, despite many attempts over the years by pro-life groups to air it on local stations.

The ad insertion was paid for by Kelowna Right to Life and was scheduled to begin airing after midnight on Friday, but Gabelhouse said the station had already received complaints from people who had viewed it on the Internet.

Even if those complaints weren’t made, Gabelhouse said he’s certain there would have been some as soon as the ad started running.

“Advertising Standards Canada would eventually tell us to pull it,” he added.

The station has run ads for Kelowna Right to Life before, albeit of a less graphic nature, and Gabelhouse said he expects they will again in the future.

The ad advertises Priests for Life, a US anti-abortion group run by Father Frank Pavone. Pavone has a show on EWTN and is a member of Focus on the Family Institute.

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Bibe references found on gun sights

By Dennis Gruending 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved

Coded biblical inscriptions have been found on the telescopic sights of rifles used by soldiers from several nations, including Canada, who are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company that supplied the inscribed weapons initially defended its actions unapologetically, and the response by the American military spokespersons has been under whelming. The inscriptions, placed where they are, represent a betrayal of the Christian scriptures and their central message of peace and reconciliation, although some obviously see this activity as admirable and patriotic. The incident and responses to it raise deeply troubling questions about elements of the American military.

A group called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which seeks to preserve the separation of church and state in the U.S., blew the whistle to ABC News in mid-January, saying it had received a complaint from a U.S. Army infantryman. The gun sights allow soldiers using them to shoot at people with greater accuracy in the dark or in dim light. The inscriptions are in the form of raised lettering and numerals added to the serial numbers along the sights. One of the inscriptions reads: “JN8:12”, a reference to a passage in John where Jesus says, “Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” A second inscription reads “2COR4:6” and refers to St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. The passage refers to God’s “[giving] us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”

No apologies

A Michigan-based company called Trijicon, which has a $660 million contract with the U.S. Marine Corps, supplies the rifle sights. Trijicon, when first asked about it, defended its actions saying that, “as part of our faith and our belief in service to our country, Trijicon has put scripture references on our products for more than two decades.” The practice began under its founder, Glyn Bindon, a devout Christian from South Africa, who was killed in a 2003 plane crash. His son, Steven Bindon, is now president of the company and well connected to the leadership of the religious right in the United States. Trijicon states on its website: “We believe that American is great when its people are good. This goodness has been based on biblical standards throughout our history and we will strive to follow those morals.”

Initially, U.S. military officials also defended the use of the inscriptions, saying that they did not violate a constitutional ban on religious proselytizing by American troops. Officials said that the military would not stop using the telescopic sights. On January 20, an Air Force spokesperson named Major John Redfield compared the inscriptions to the use of Biblical language on the U.S. currency. “Are we going to stop using money because the bills have “In God We Trust” on them?” he asked. “As long as the sights meet the combat needs of troops, they’ll continue to be used.”

Barrage of criticism

That position changed within a few days after a barrage of criticism from a variety of groups, including the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and the Muslim Public Affairs Council. They said the implied message is that American soldiers are fighting a holy war against Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, even though American politicians, including President Obama, have said this is not the case. A second, and perhaps predominant concern among soldiers is that publicity surrounding the inscriptions could put them at added risk if ever they are captured in battle. The defence departments and military officials in New Zealand, Australia and Britain, responded cautiously, saying that they had not known their soldiers were being provided with weapons bearing the biblical inscriptions. Within a few days of the controversy erupting, however, those organizations and the even U.S. military had decided that the inscriptions were not acceptable. By January 22, military spokespersons were saying that they did not approve of them and wanted them removed. Trijicon then announced that it would provide “modification kits” at its own expense for that purpose. Owner Stephen Bindon was now describing his company’s action as “both prudent and appropriate.”

A Canadian military spokesperson admits that Ottawa-based Joint Task Force 2 and a special operations unit from nearby Petawawa use the Trijicon rifle sights in Afghanistan, but Major Don MacNair cites national security reasons in refusing to say how many of the sights are employed. The activities of the joint task force are shrouded in secrecy, but the unit often works behind enemy lines and its members are trained to kill with cold efficiency. MacNair told the Ottawa Citizen that the inscriptions are inappropriate and should be removed.

Christo-fascism

The most disturbing question here is whether these military inscriptions represent a rogue act by a company owned by a right wing Christian businessman, or whether they represent an attitude and practice that is pervasive in the military and therefore more sinister. There has been significant reportage on the religious influence in the American military. Jeff Sharlet, writing in Harper’s magazine (May 2009) reported on a “subtle civil war” that is occurring for the “soul of the military.” He reports on a “small but powerful movement of Christian soldiers concentrated in the officers corps” who are trying to turn the military into a “righteous Christian army”. These officers bully recruits and ordinary soldiers to become involved in mandatory assemblies and prayer groups (open only to Christians), and they appear as speakers on the prayer breakfast circuit and on religious media owned by fundamentalists.

“What men such as these have fomented,” Sharlett writes, “is a quiet coup within the armed forces: not of generals encroaching upon civilian rule but of religious authority replacing the military’s once staunchly secular code … they see themselves not as subversives but as spiritual warriors –‘ambassadors for Christ in uniform,’ according to the Officers’ Christian Fellowship.” Sharlett also writes about how the chaplaincy in the U.S. military, which was once apportioned strictly according to the country’s religious demographic, has come to be dominated by graduates from fundamentalist bible colleges.

Every person in the U.S. military, Sharlet writes, swears an oath to defend the Constitution. But for fundamentalist officers and chaplains, “the Constitution is itself a blueprint for a Christian nation.” These officers and chaplains see the campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq as holy wars, exemplified by an example Sharlet discovered of soldiers in Iraq travelling through neighbourhoods with a bullhorn shouting, “Jesus killed Mohammed” – and shooting people who objected. This faction within the military also sees enemies everywhere at home, and believes it must “wage spiritual warfare against their countrymen” – those “post moderns” who believe in diversity and egalitarianism. Sharlet believes this religious intrusion into the American military is so deeply rooted that President Obama has chosen a hands off policy in exchange for “evangelical peace.”

In 2006, President George Bush began to use the term Islamo-fascism, which neo-conservative pundits Washington had been employing for some time to describe America’s enemies in the Middle East. It was an imprecise description that linked an entire world religion with an extremist political ideology — and moderate Muslims were offended. They might now ask in return if Christo-fascism is emerging within the American military.

Pulpit & Politics

At the 49' Parallel

Canada’s ties to the Council for National Policy

From Dawn thot :summary. The full 20 page .pdf can be downloaded from the link. The chart at Dawn thot is interactive. Clicking on each organization will give you a quick summary of what the organizations beliefs are.

I think many Canadian Conservatives would be dismayed if they knew the extent of the economic and ideological ties to religious right influencers in the US. The assumption is often made that Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, adhere to the rigid theocratic and dominionist beliefs of men such as James Dobson, Tim LaHaye, Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Fawell. The harder core messages out of the US religious right is softened and fed to the Canadian public by Canadian leaders in bite size pieces under the guise of social conservatism.

While this 2006 document needs an update as key players move around, the bedrock and ties have not been broken.  Some of those named have moved into more influential positions in Canadian federal and provincial politics.

In 1997, Stephen Harper was invited to speak to the tri-yearly Council meeting being held in Montreal. His speech is one of the few to this group of about 500 which has been made public.

During the CNP appearance, Mr. Harper made a number of statements denigrating Canada and Canadians: “Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the word,” said Mr. Harper;31 “In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don’t feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don’t feel bad about it themselves, as long as they’re receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance,” continued Mr. Harper.32 Mr. Harper was also critical of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: “[W]e have a Supreme Court, like yours, which, since we put a charter of rights in our Constitution in 1982, is becoming increasingly arbitrary.”33

On specific policy issues, Mr. Harper demonstrated his contempt for ideas at the heart of Canadian society, including public health care and international cooperation. For example, the Charlottetown Agreement, he explained to his audience, included “some [things] that would just horrify you, putting universal Medicare in our constitution, and feminist rights.”34 Mr. Harper also showed dissatisfaction with Canada’s strong support for the UN, and the pride Canadians take in their country’s status at the UN: “This distresses conservatives like myself quite profoundly, but I will warn you, it’s a widespread view, and I will always say, one that could only be maintained as long as [Americans] basically provide us with military protection.”35 Mr. Harper also provided the CNP audience with a glimpse of his opinion of future political reform in Canada. He called the Reform Party a “conservative Republican” organization that espoused “a constitutional agenda that challenges the way our entire political system operates.”36 Most revealingly, Mr. Harper shared his view that the Reform and Progressive Conservative parties would ultimately merge and “[o]ne party is going to win out….And Reform is not going to lose that contest in the long term.”37

…“[t]he individual views of Conservative candidates matter very much in a party that promises to hold more free votes in Parliament on social and moral issues.”179 - David Laycock, Simon Fraser University.

As conservatives in Canada move to entrench their grassroots organization through social conservative leadership training initiatives like those undertaken by the Manning Centre, Canadians should remain vigilant lest social conservatives already supported by a vast network of American organizations turn their influence into government power.

Other background - US

CNP - wiki
CNP - Seek God
CNP - People for the American Way

Groups in Canada

Churches

Kings Glory Fellowship Association doesn’t file tax return What’s in a name?

It appears the public is being suckered by Calgarian street preacher Artur Pawlowski. And it appears a group called Kings Glory Fellowship Association may also have been suckered. And it appears Street Church Ministries may have been suckered too.

Pawlowski is identified as head pastor of Kings Glory Fellowship Association, which, according to Equipping Christians for the Public Square,  faithfully filed a tax return as a charity for the last 30 years.

Kings Glory Fellowship Association was listed at Revenue Canada Charity Directorate under Other Denominations, Congregations or Parishes, (not else classified). As  a charity it would  have had a board or trustees. They would have hired their head pastor. The current head pastor is Artur Pawlowski.

Kings Glory Fellowship Association got it’s charitable status revoked by Revenue Canada in October.

Meantime back in Calgary, head pastor Artur Pawlowski gets himself known as a combative street preacher and head of a group called he calls Street Church Ministries. He’s got religious right sites believing his new minis is being persecuted.

Street Church Ministries is not listed with Revenue Canada, but it takes donations and has the same address as Kings Glory Fellowship Association.

One is not the other in the eyes of the government and rightfully so. One gets it’s charity licence yanked for not filing, one isn’t listed as a charity but takes donations on it’s website.

Street Church Ministries is saying it is going to take the case of  Kings Glory Fellowship Association charity licence being yanked to court. It is run by Artur Pawlowski who is the one yelling persecution.

The board of Kings Glory Fellowship Association is responsible for filing it’s tax return, responsible for who it hires as head pastor.  Holy Post:

Artur Pawlowski, the head of the Kings Glory Fellowship, said his group “has nothing to do with politics and we do not advertise for a party or a candidate. The only political activity you can connect us to is defending our right to speak.”

Mr. Pawlowski said the primary mission of his church is to feed homeless people. He said this group supplies food for about 150,000 a year, mainly to people “that no one else wants to deal with.”

“When we feed people we don’t care whether they are homosexuals or have had abortions or been divorced but we preach what the Bible says about those issues.”

Maybe Kings Glory Fellowship Association does feed homeless people. So apparently does Street Church Ministries.
Street Church Ministries is involved in political activism and as such cannot cross the 10% threshold of involvement required by law.

Where is the persecution?
If Kings Glory Fellowship Association board filed for a name change to Street Church Ministries, where is it listed?  Since when can a group be politically active (Street Church Ministries) and misuse the charitable status of another group (Kings Glory Fellowship Association)?

Small but important detail wouldn’t you think?

I’ll update and correct this post if someone can show me what’s in a name.

Update: Alberta Gazette DON ROSS MINISTRIES, ASSOC. Alberta Society Incorporated 1984 JUL 30. New Name: THE KINGS GLORY FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATION Effective Date: 2005 JUN 29. No: 503153363
Canada Gazette THE KINGS GLORY FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATION, CALGARY, ALTA  118887280RR0001

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CTS operated charity without a licence

Crossroads Television System (CTS) has publicly acknowledged it has been soliciting money from viewers without Revenue Canada Charities blessing.

CTS is a federally-incorporated, not-for-profit corporation without share capital. CTS is licenced for religious programming and has stations in Burlington, Edmonton and Calgary.  Iner Smith, CTS Development representative:

CITS Media Resources Organization launched in the winter of 2009 and applied for charitable status with the Canada Revenue at that time. We received notice from the CRA in December that this application was refused. While we consider our next steps, all parties donating to CITS MRO have been contacted offering a refund of their donation(s).

Here is a timeline of events for CITS Media Research Organization/CITS Media Resources Organization/Hope for TV, CTS Our Cause/CTS The Cause.

• October 2, 2008: A letters patent application is made in Burlington Ontario by CTS to Industry Canada for CITS Media Resources Organization
• October 27, 2008: The CITS Media Resources Organization application is Gazetted (granted) Industry Canada file #449772-4
• September 2009: CTS (Crossroads Television System) registers a website: Hope for TV
• Time unknown: CTS puts up Our Cause explaining CITS Media Research Organization or CITS Media Resources Organization
• Time unknown: Hope for TV (CTS)  puts four broadcast ads and copy on its website.
• All website links at Hope for TV go straight to CTS Our Cause/The Cause (CITS Media Research Organization/CITS Media Resources Organization). The public is asked for money, and provided with two donation fields, one of which said tax receipts will be granted at the end of the year.
• Time unknown: CTS begins broadcasting Hope for TV advertisements across Canada, asking for viewer donations in violation of it’s broadcast licence

It is not known how many donors CTS will be paying back, or whether CTS will be fined for operating a charity without without registration.
CTS which advertises itself as “Television You Can Believe In,” has removed the two solicitation fields from it’s website as of today.

Conferences and Networks

Canada Dominionist Conference - Unite For Dominion

Canada’s neo-charismatic dominionists are putting on a show in Calgary January 28-30, 2010.
This is a stellar lineup of religious right leaders who believe Canadians must live under biblical law and they are just the folk to make it happen.

Dick Deweert who founded The Miracle Channel (Canada’s TBN) and who stepped down in 2007 after revelations of an extra-marital affair, is a headliner. Deweert is easing back into the public spotlight. His blog is here.

Faytene Kyskow, author of Stand on Guard who insists she doesn’t know what dominionism  is and isn’t part of  ’that group’ also a participant.
Speaker Ron Aitkens of Harvest Group,  lost a recent tangle with the Alberta Securities Commission.

Conference title: Unite For Dominion.

Churches

Jason Kenney blames Bev Oda for KAIROS funding turndown

The Star from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to KAIROS

Your twin accusations that I accused the advocacy group KAIROS of anti-Semitism and that this is why the Canada International Development Agency did not approve a cost-sharing program with the group are false.

I did not accuse KAIROS of being anti-Semitic. What I said was that KAIROS has taken “a leadership role in the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (against Israel).” In fact, Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno’s own research led her to the same conclusion. She wrote that KAIROS has taken “a leading role in divestment, sanctions and targeted boycotts of Israel,” and said those who deny that are “disingenuous and dissembling.”

While I disagree with the nature of KAIROS’s militant stance toward the Jewish homeland, that is not the reason their request for taxpayer funding was denied. International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda – not me – is responsible for the Canada International Development Agency. And she has been clear that a cost-sharing program with KAIROS was not approved because it did not meet CIDA’s current priorities, such as increased food aid.

Our government continues to support the many worthwhile charitable endeavours undertaken by churches and other organizations that are members of KAIROS, particularly those that make a real difference in the lives of those living in poverty in developing countries.

So what did Jason Kenney actually say at the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem?
From BigCityLib Strikes Back:

What Prime Minister Harper witnessed in Mumbai, what happened at the same time in Calgary, were practical expressions of the new anti-Semitism. Even though Canada is celebrated around the world as being a successful model of mutual coexistence and tolerance, we too have seen a troubling increase in incidents of anti-Semitism. B’Nai Brith Canada publishes the authoritative registry of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada. In 2008, they received reports of 1,135 incidents of anti-Semitic instances, the highest number recorded in 28 years of the study, an increase of 8.9% over 2007.

[...]

So how have we addressed these growing incidents of anti-Semitism? Well first of all, on the domestic level, our government has worked with the Jewish community to begin a program of recognizing our own history of official anti-Semitism.

[...]

We have articulated and implemented a zero tolerance approach to anti-Semitism. What does this mean? It means that we eliminated the government funding relationship with organizations like for example, the Canadian Arab Federation, whose leadership apologized for terrorism or extremism, or who promote hatred, in particular anti-Semitism.

We have ended government contact with like-minded organizations like the Canadian Islamic Congress, whose President notoriously said that all Israelis over the age of 18 are legitimate targets for assassination. We have defunded organizations, most recently like KAIROS, who are taking a leadership role in the boycott. And we’re receiving a lot of criticism for these decisions. I can’t recall how many times I’ve been sued for some of the decisions that we have taken, but we believe that we’ve done these things for the right reasons and we stand by these decisions.

The full text of the speech can be found at MP Rick Rick Dykstra’s site.

The funding would have been 40% of a four year project which effects KAIROS work in six countries. The objection is more about politicalizing aid work and not honouring government legislation.  You may chose to interpret Kenney’s remarks any way you want.  Bev Oda’s decision flies in the face of Bill C-393. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada:

If you wanted to tick off the Roman Catholic Church, the mainline Protestant denominations and Evangelicals while undoing a longstanding relationship that has fostered improved human rights and strengthened sustainable development opportunities around the world, what single step could you take as the Government of Canada? Until Monday of this week, that was a question that hadn’t occurred to anyone. But on Monday, Bev Oda, Minister for International Cooperation, delivered the answer by ending a 35 year relationship with KAIROS with a phone call.

The core groups of KAIROS are:

KAIROS Member Churches are:
The Anglican Church of Canada
The Christian Reformed Church in North America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Presbyterian Church in Canada
The United Church of Canada
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Canadian Religious Conference
The Mennonite Central Committee of Canada
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF)

The support is flooding in for KAIROS from all over the world and from very diverse groups across Canada.

KAIROS
Scott Tribe
Western Standard
Dennis Gruending
Pushed to the Left and Loving it: has background on Charles McVety, Canadian Christian College, Christians United for Israel (CUFI)

Charles McVety denouncing KAIROS
LifeSite: Alfonse de Valk
Ezra Levant: Would you lie for 7 million?

I have never seen Canadian protestant denominations, other faith groups, partners and citizens join together to take such a strong stand against this pathetic behavior by the Canadian Government and it’s ministers.

News and Roundups

News roundup December 19, 2009

Is it Boom times for PMO’s God Squad?

Two of Canada’s religious TV channels have new CEO’s. Crossroads Christian Communications Inc. appointed Don Simmonds as CEO and chairman of the board in October. The press release released to ChristianWeek this week claims Simmonds was the founder of Clearnet. The charity founders two sons were finders for a ponzi scheme and were yanked from the air earlier this year. One son has returned in a lesser position as Spiritual Director and Executive Producer of 100 Huntley Street.

The Miracle Channel which saw the resignation of it’s founder over an affair has appointed Leon Fontaine of Winnipeg Springs Church as new CEO effective January 1, 2010.

Street preacher Art Pawlowski who doesn’t like by-laws, has been found not guilty of five City of Calgary bylaw violations and two provincial traffic safety violations going back to 2007. He has since stopped using his sound system, and has more by-law violations to contest.

Christian Horizons appeal of an OHRC employment case was hear in an Ontario Division Court this week. The organization runs 200 homes for 1400 disabled adults and is paid by the province of Ontario. Christian Horizons has operated for 40 years. The OHRC 2008 ruling stated the organization had no right to fire employee Connie Heinz because of violation of their morals code which the organization dropped after the OHRC ruling.  Intervenors in the appeal included Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Canadian Council of the Christian Charities. The court decision is expected in about six months.

The United Church of Canada wants to know why Immigration Minister Jason Kenney called them anti-semitic in a speech Wednesday. From KAIROS:

Addressing the Global Forum to Counter Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem, Minister Kenney described his government’s fights against anti-Semitism and, as an example, said the government had “defunded organizations … like KAIROS for taking a leadership role in the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign” against Israel.

Other denominations falling under  the cabinet ministers remarks include The Anglican Church of Canada,  Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Mennonite Central Committee – Canada. The denominations are part of KAIROS which has operated for 35 years. Kenney’s office cited other sources and did not address his remarks.

Kenney’s office pointed to critical comments made by an Israel-based group. The NGO Monitor said KAIROS is a “main supporter of the anti-Israel divestment movement in Canada,” and gave a $25,000 grant in 2007 to Sabeel, a Palestinian NGO whose leader “employs anti-Semitic themes and imagery.”

Kenney’s office also pointed to a 2006 press release from B’nai Brith and Canadian Christian College president Charles McVety calling on CIDA to stop funding KAIROS.

Paul Ouellet,  who pleaded guilty to two sexual assault charges against minors  has taken out an ad in a Quebec paper explaining why he did the crimes, which occurred in the late 1980’s early 1990’s. The 63 year old was the subject of a four year investigation. 8 charges were laid. He blames the victims and his divorce and says the charges were false. The ad, placed in La Frontière last week, can be seen in a screen shot at the CBC.  Ouellet is the brother of Cardinal Marc Ouellet,  Quebec Archbishop and Primate of Canada of Canada for the Roman Catholic Church.

Education

Surrey parent backs off bible club in sons school

Surrey parent Paul Jubenvill has withdrawn his human rights complaint over an elementary school’s refusal to provide space for a Bible study group. Jubenvill said Wednesday he was taken aback by the storm of controversy over his plans to hold voluntary meetings on Christianity at Colebrook Elementary School. “It turned into a war. It’s not what I want. I’m not a political person. I didn’t even know what this tribunal is,” said Jubenvill. “It’s turned into Us vs. Them. It’s become a mudslinging thing. People have totally misunderstood my actions,” he said.

Jubenvill had filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal on Dec. 1 after he was refused space for the noon-hour group. By way of explanation, the school board said it had a legislated duty to separate church and education in elementary schools. According to Jubenvill, a 35-year-old software designer who lives “by God’s word,” his freedom of religion was guaranteed under the Canadian Human Rights Act. But he has now withdrawn his official complaint “after further reflection.”

He didn’t know what this tribunal is - then who pushed him to file?

Paul Jubenvill, a member of the Cloverdale Canadian Reformed Church, filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal on Dec. 1, saying the district’s decision violates his freedom-of-religion rights.

“This is no different than the freedom to have a jazz club or a badminton club,” he told the Province newspaper. “There can’t be discrimination on the basis of religion.”

Jubenvill has two sons, Jasper, 7, and Levi, 9. The School Act separates church and school.

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Uganda Anti-Homosexual Bill - Canadian connection

US religious right influence in the dragonian Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill has become better known over the past year, one of the lesser known groups behind the scenes in Uganda is The College of Prayer.

This neo-charismatic theocratic group is active in Canada and say they have 23 Canadian MP’s they plan to meet with.

When the team returned to North America, they received a phone call from David Chotka, COP Canada. David said, “I have three-twelve members of the Canadian Parliament who have heard about what God is doing in Uganda and would like to attend the Parliamentary COP in Uganda next year. They are interested in bringing the College of Prayer to the Canadian Parliament.” It seems that God continues to expand our spheres of influence. The extraordinary favor of God is resting upon us. All glory to His name!

These MP’s and the College of Prayer should be loudly named in Canadian media and asked some tough questions.  This is not a harmless prayer group planning a field trip, this is the heretical New Apostolic Reformation started by Peter C. Wagner, and this is a group with draconian political goals, the fruits of which are being seen by the world in this Ugandan legislation.

There is word today that Uganda  is re-writing the private members bill which would involves the death penalty for homosexuals, life in prison for anyone who doesn’t report a GLBT family member, friend or patient. There are reports the re-written legislation will demand forced conversion ‘therapy’.
Text of the current Anti-Homosexual Bill October 2009 .

Political Research Associates Uganda Report: Globalizing the Culture Wars
Steven Lewis Foundation
Box Turtle Bulletin -history of US ties
Dr. Warren Throckman: College of Prayer, the Ugandan Parliament and the Anti-Homosexual Bill

Update: From The Guardian:

In Entebbe last week, 200 religious leaders, under the powerful umbrella group Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, demanded diplomatic ties be severed with “ungodly” donor countries, including the UK, Sweden and Canada, who are “bent on forcing homosexuality on Ugandans”.