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Police probe gay raid on Christians
By MIKE D'AMOUR, CALGARY SUN
Police are reviewing several videotapes of a Christian meeting that was stormed by gay protesters. "An investigation is ongoing," confirmed Calgary police Const. Doug Jones, the hate-bias crime co-ordinator for the police cultural resource unit.
"What we are looking at, if we can identify (the protesters) is mischief charges, disturbing a peaceful assembly kind of stuff."
The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. held its national convention at Calgary's Coast Plaza Hotel in the city's northeast on Saturday when about seven females and a male wearing bandannas over their faces came into the room.
On a videotape viewed by the Sun, the protesters were heard chanting: "Right wing bigots go away, Gay Militia is here to stay."
As about 25 members of the convention held hands and prayed aloud, the women unfurled a banner that read: Liberation: Queer Invasion.
"I was dumbfounded at the fact that the Gay Militia would storm into a private meeting where we were praying and discussing Bill C-250, a bill that will affect our freedom as Christians to discuss certain beliefs," said Jim Blake of the CCC.
Bill C-250 is one that would add protection of homosexuals and homosexual lifestyles to the "hate" section of the Criminal Code.
"The CCC feels that all groups have a right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the freedom to assemble and protect their deeply held personal and moral beliefs," Blake said.
There was no comment from the Gay Militia.
Police probe gay raid on Christians
By MIKE D'AMOUR, CALGARY SUN
Police are reviewing several videotapes of a Christian meeting that was stormed by gay protesters. "An investigation is ongoing," confirmed Calgary police Const. Doug Jones, the hate-bias crime co-ordinator for the police cultural resource unit.
"What we are looking at, if we can identify (the protesters) is mischief charges, disturbing a peaceful assembly kind of stuff."
The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. held its national convention at Calgary's Coast Plaza Hotel in the city's northeast on Saturday when about seven females and a male wearing bandannas over their faces came into the room.
On a videotape viewed by the Sun, the protesters were heard chanting: "Right wing bigots go away, Gay Militia is here to stay."
As about 25 members of the convention held hands and prayed aloud, the women unfurled a banner that read: Liberation: Queer Invasion.
"I was dumbfounded at the fact that the Gay Militia would storm into a private meeting where we were praying and discussing Bill C-250, a bill that will affect our freedom as Christians to discuss certain beliefs," said Jim Blake of the CCC.
Bill C-250 is one that would add protection of homosexuals and homosexual lifestyles to the "hate" section of the Criminal Code.
"The CCC feels that all groups have a right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the freedom to assemble and protect their deeply held personal and moral beliefs," Blake said.
There was no comment from the Gay Militia.
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