Is believing in Jesus Christ no longer acceptable in Canada?
MP James Lunney leaving the Conservative caucus to defend his faith.
Vancouver Island MP James Lunney doesn’t think so, and he’s left the Conservative caucus to sit as an independent to speak more freely about his faith perspective.
In an interview with Huffington Post Canada, Lunney explains he’s seeing long protected freedoms of religion and conscience are under attack, whether it’s the college of physicians and surgeons in Ontario and Saskatchewan overruling long-standing conscience provisions regarding assisted suicide and abortion, or Trinity Western University coming under fire for plans to open a law school, and the Bank of Montreal discriminating against Christian lawyers.
“It’s only social conservatives that are being targeted by this smear campaign for what they believe,” Lunney says in the interview. “Can you imagine someone from another faith community being attacked this way? Would we do it to the Sikh community?”
“Why is it only Christians that are allowed to be publicly belittled, demeaned, insulted?”Lunney asks.
And it’s the reason he’s left the Conservative caucus, to speak up on the issue without “people standing up and trying to pin this on the prime minister and my colleagues, trying to use it as a wedge issue. I am not prepared to do that. I paid a big price actually to take a seat as an independent for the remainder of my days. It will sever friendships and I’ll have the possibility of being greatly misunderstood.”
But Lunney says it’s not about cost, “I think that if a person cannot stand up and defend their faith community when their own faith is belittled, not just mine alone but millions of Canadians that is not a legacy that I want to leave behind, and sometimes you need to calculate the cost and do what you think is right.”
“I feel that it is important for my faith community that someone stand up and defend our rights, which are under unprecedented assault in the history of Canada.”
Read more of the interview here.
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