Monday, May 19, 2014

IN the NEWS - Oh Canada


If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18
"The Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail reports the controversy centers around a provision in a code of conduct requiring all students and staff to sign a statement not to engage in sexual activity outside of marriage.
Trinity Western University is Canada’s largest privately funded Christian university. TWU was founded in 1962, enrolls an estimated 3,500 students, and is located in Langley, British Columbia.
The Trinity Western University Law School is slated to open in 2016. The Federation of Law Societies of Canada and the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education have approved TWU’s School of Law. The Law Societies of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and other provinces have decided to accept TWU’s graduates. Even with these approvals, the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) has voted 28 to 21 to ban TWU School of Law graduates from practicing in the province of Ontario. The LSUC voted to ban graduates primarily because of the school’s traditional Biblical Christian views on marriage.
On April 25, the Nova Scotia Barristers Society (NSBS) also voted 10 to 9 not to approve the School of Law unless TWU changed its Biblical beliefs and practices." JE

What does the school's stand on gay marriage have to do with being a lawyer? All lawyers have to hold the same views on morality now in Canada? And what is up with this OPEN warfare against Christianity? But then again, I'm not sure if Canada ever prided itself on freedom or more specific, on freedom of religion, as America did at one time.