Suffer all ye Ontario children - 2018-07-20

Suffer all ye Ontario children July 20, 2018, Antonia Zerbisias, rabble.ca

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Charles McVety, the so-called "evangelical leader" who delivered unto Doug Ford a social conservative Christian base, is less about loving and ministering to the poor and disadvantaged and more about promoting fear, hate and discrimination.

This is a guy whose television show got booted off the airwaves in 2010 by the industry's own regulatory body the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) -- i.e. not the government -- after it received complaints about "discriminatory comments on the basis of sexual orientation, religion and mental disability."

The CBSC Panel, which dismissed the charges of discrimination against the disabled and Muslims, did determine that McVety was out of line when his program suggested that LGBTIQs prey on children: "McVety may not like homosexuality. That is his entitlement, but to leave the totally unsubstantiated impression that gay and lesbian adults have a predilection toward young, underage people is insidious and unacceptable. In all, the Panel finds the McVety mis-characterizations as excessive, inappropriate, disparaging, and abusive […]."

Wikipedia cite:

{{cite news | first = Antonia | last = Zerbisias | title = Suffer all ye Ontario children | url = http://rabble.ca/news/2018/07/suffer-all-ye-ontario-children | work = rabble.ca | date = July 20, 2018 | accessdate = July 27, 2019 }}