A Conservative MP is raising the alarm that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is quietly expunging the “only section in the Criminal Code that directly protects the right of individuals to practise their religion.”
Saskatchewan MP David Anderson says Bill C-51, which according to a Liberal backgrounder is intended to clear obsolete, redundant or unconstitutional sections from the Criminal Code as well as strengthen sexual assault laws, contains a startling clause to drop Section 176.
“I think it’s just very strange that this would be removed,” the MP for Cypress Hills-Grasslands told LifeSiteNews.
“Particularly at this time when clergymen, ministers, imans seem to be under more threats than they’ve ever been in Canada, why would we be removing the only provision that we can find that actually protects both religious services, observances, and the clergymen?”
Moreover, “I understand the person who ran into the Basilica in Ottawa and smashed the statue of Jesus was actually charged under this provision,” Anderson pointed out.
Section 176 declares that anyone who “by force or threat” obstructs, interferes, or prevents by a minister or clergyman from “celebrating divine service or performing any other function in connection with his calling,” or assaults, “offers violence to him” or arrests him on a civil process when he is going or returning from performing a religious function is guilty of an indictable offence and could be jailed up to two years.
Similarly, anyone who “wilfully disturbs or interrupts an assemblage of persons met for religious worship or for a moral, social or benevolent purpose is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.”
Likewise, anyone who “wilfully does anything that disturbs the order or solemnity of the meeting is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.”
CTV reported June 12 that the Ottawa police have charged 52-year-old Katherine Spero with “breach of a judicial release and disturbing a religious worship” after an April 30 incident in which a screaming woman allegedly leapt onto the communion rail at St. Patrick’s Basilica just before 9 p.m. Mass and tore the right arm off the corpus of Christ on the crucifix.
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