In Canada, the Bible is hate speech?

[witness23]

OVM, in all seriousness, I would like your take on this. I'm not sure if you are a believer or not but I would like to know what you think. Or any other Canadians, I just know for sure OVM is Canadian.

There are links to the sources. It is a long article but this particular Claim is about half way down, but you must click on the link if you would like to view them:
Glenn Beck failed his 40-Day Challenge | Media Matters for America

CLAIM: In Canada, the Bible is hate speech. From the August 27edition of Glenn Beck:

BECK: A lot of Americans have lost sight of that. And certainly, our country doesn't focus on the Bible anymore. Our neighbors in Canada think the Bible is hate speech now, believe it or not. It wasn't always that way. In fact, this is kind of a new recent trend.

The founders relied on the Bible. Do you know that -- do you know that more than 30 times all the other books, all the other things they could have read, more than 30 times the Book of Deuteronomy over everything else. That's what the founders used.

REALITY: The legislation to which Beck is likely referring protected arguments based on religious texts. In 2004, Canada added "sexual orientation" to the list of protected groups under its hate propaganda law, a move that was labeled, "Bible as hate speech" by right-wing media. (Beck's website linked to a World Net Daily article with such a headline at the time.) The law states that those who "wilfully promote hatred against any identifiable group" are "guilty of an indictable offence," unless "in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text."

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Well Canada certainly did not ban Tom Sawyer as being racist and include it as hate literature....am quite sure some extreme people connected some dots to point it out tho...

Me thinks Beck is really stretching his point...

because the Bible says homosexuality is a sin.....does that make it hate literature? I think the final judgment on this issue will be up to a higher power....and left at that...

 

[Turtle]

because the Bible says homosexuality is a sin.....does that make it hate literature?

That's the goal. Many homosexuals want to either ban the Bible outright, or have it rewritten so as not to besmirch, criticize or judge homosexuality in any way. They can't do it head on (bad pun, sorry) so they have to come in the back door (sorry about that one, too).