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Evangelist and author Bill Whatcott is a determined guy, but he has run into a brick wall of Christian-hating bigotry and cowardice in Regina. Bill wanted to hold a meeting focusing on Christian morality in these troubled times. He lined up three speakers: peter LaBarbera, President Americans for Truth About Homosexuality;\u00a0<\/span>Father Jeffrey Stefaniuk, Ukrainian Catholic Priest\u00a0<\/span>Father Stephaniuk will expound on the Catholic teaching of separation of church and state, and\u00a0<\/span>Susan Takata, Ex Gay ministries, Christian missionary,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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He sought to advertise this event planned for October 28 in the local daily newspaper\u00a0The Regina Leader-Post<\/span><\/b>. A copy of the proposed ad, vetted by a lawyer, appears below. It was informative and neither inflammatory nor insulting. However, after a quick perusal, the ONLY daily newspaper in town rejected the ad, without explanation.<\/span><\/div>\n
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See, how Canada’s Christian-hating system works is that it will hypocritically purr: “Of course, you are free to hold a meeting and free to express your religious beliefs.” What they don’t add is: “But we won’t let you tell the public and we’ll try to deny you a meeting venue.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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Not to be deterred the determined Whatcott took a week off work — that’s a week without pay. He booked Lee’s Funeral Home for the meeting and printed up 5,000 flyers announcing his meeting. Then, with the help of a few friends, he physically delivered these flyers door to door.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Then, disaster struck. Just as the last of the flyers had been delivered, he got a call from Lee’s Funeral Home. Someone from the press had called and inquired whether they would be comfortable with \u00a0protests against this meeting. If the call was from the press, it was especially reprehensible. It was a case of the press trying to MAKE news not report it. Worse, the call was a mischievous threat much like some gangster putting a big paw on your shoulder and asking whether you’d like him to pay a visit to your home. “Visit” in this context doesn’t mean coffee and cookies but serious trouble!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Anyway, Canada being the land of the wimp and the coward, in no time Lee’s Funeral Home collapsed and cancelled a contract where cash had already exchanged hands. Worse, the funeral home director knew and agreed with Mr. Whatcott’s Christian traditionalism.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The\u00a0Leader-Post,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0which wouldn’t let Mr. Whatcott (October 16, 2014) advertise the meeting reported gleefully on its cancellation. They quoted funeral home Greg Kulak: “<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThey will not be using our facility,\u201d said Kulak. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t lend with our core values.\u201dAssuming the quotation is accurate, it is illiterate and impenetrable — “lend with our core values”? It’s a funeral home that prepares corpses and buries people. How is traditional Christianity contrary to the home’s “core values”?
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By now, the resourceful Mr. Whatcott had booked another venue — the Regina Delta. As soon as the Leader-Post smear appeared, the cowardly Delta reneged on the booking: ”\u00a0<\/span>Please be advised that we will not be proceeding with your event planned for our facility on October 28th. The space has been cancelled. —\u00a0Doreen (Doreen Smith)<\/div>\n
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I urge you to protest to both Greg Kulak and the Delta. Doug Christie always said: \u00a0“It doesn’t matter what is written in constitutions or charters of rights and freedoms. You only have those rights you are prepared to fight for.” Trudeau’s phony Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which actually curtails individual rights in favour of group rights, is a huge fraud. Many Canadian businesses have absolutely no commitment to basic freedoms.<\/div>\n
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Here are the people to whom you should protest:<\/div>\n
Lee Funeral Home and Crematorium<\/span>
\nManager: Greg Kulak
\n3101 Dewdney Ave
\nRegina, Saskatchewan S4T 0Y5
\nPhone:\u00a0(306) 757-8645<\/a>
\nFax:\u00a0 (306) 569-6061<\/a>
\nEmail:\u00a0 loc3861@sci-us.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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Doreen Smith | Conference Services Manager
\nDelta Regina
\nTel:\u00a0 306.565.1667<\/a>\u00a0| Fax:\u00a0 306.359.9040<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0 dsmith@fortisproperties.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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This is the ad I submitted to the Leader Post. I had my lawyer Tom Schuck review it to insure it violated no human rights or libel code. As far as Tom was concerned the Leader Post was able to run this ad without fear of retribution from any government agency.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Bringing the Light of Christ to our culture!<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nPeter LaBarbera, President Americans for Truth About Homosexuality
\nPeter will be lecturing on how the Bible applies to today\u2019s culture and how Canadian Christians are to respond to such issues as same sex marriage, euthanasia, abortion, pre-marital sex and easy divorce.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nFather Jeffrey Stefaniuk, Ukrainian Catholic Priest
\nFather Stephaniuk will expound on the Catholic teaching of separation of church and state. Father will also share his thoughts on what it means to be a human being made in God\u2019s image and the tension between the Christian concept of human beings being created with an infinite value vs the secular and utilitarian concept of human life having a value relative to the perceived quality of one\u2019s life.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nSusan Takata, Ex Gay ministries, Christian missionary
\nSusan will give her testimony of how God took her from a life filled with pain, depression, sexual abuse and struggles with her gender identity. Susan will share how she tried to live her life as a man for many years and how through the love of Christ and the compassion of her local church, she was able to accept the gender she was born into. Susan is now living a fulfilled life as a woman and is ministering to others struggling with issues of sexuality and gender identity.<\/span><\/p>\n
Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in an evening of learning and respectful dialogue!
\nBeverages and snacks will be provided!
\nJoin us!<\/p>\n
Conference will be held at Lee Funeral Home, 3101 Dewdney Ave, Regina, SK, Tuesday, October 28, 6:00 \u2013 9:00 PM [\/del]
\nNote: Due to Lee breaking contract with our conference we have had to change venue. Our conference is still being held on the same day, but at a different location. You can either go to Lee Funeral Home at 6 PM and someone will be there on the sidewalk to let you know where the new location is or you can call Bill Whatcott\u00a0306-861-6140<\/a>\u00a0for more information<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
A voluntary donation will be requested to cover conference expenses<\/p>\n
For more information please contact Bill Whatcott, Executive Director, Christian Truth Activists
\nPhone:\u00a0 306-861-6140<\/a>, e-mail: billwhatcott @gmail.com<\/a>, website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.freenorthamerica.ca<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Anyways, upon receiving the rejection e-mail, I promptly got to work printing 5,000 flyers adverting the conference. I drove to Regina this evening with my box full of flyers and got to work going door to door advertising this intellectually stimulating and inspirational conference. I will likely be in Regina all week delivering the 5,000 flyers door to door. If there are any volunteers who would like to do door to door with me letting the public know this conference is open and that everyone has an opportunity to challenge their assumptions and learn, please give me a call or send me an e-mail! I got out 250 flyers tonight and have 4750 more to go!<\/p>\n
I will be going to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission tomorrow at 10:00 am to file a complaint against the Regina Leader Post. They are the only major newspaper in Regina and pretty much have a near total monopoly on print media in this city. There certainly is a compelling interest for conservative Christians in insuring Regina’s only major newspaper becomes less discriminatory towards our point of view.<\/p>\n
Please pray for these two endeavours.<\/p>\n
In Christ’s Service
\nBill Whatcott<\/p>\n
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Whatcott conference: Sexuality & religious freedom censored!<\/a><\/h3>\n
$\"Post\"$ <\/a>by\u00a0Bill Whatcott<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:09 am<\/p>\n
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\nChristian teaching on God’s design for His gift of sexuality is increasingly being equated with criminal or deviant behaviour
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Whatcott loses venue for conference\u00a0<\/span>
\nTHE LEADER-POST
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REGINA \u2014 A conference featuring one well-known anti-gay activist and organized by another is looking for a new venue after the original host pulled out upon hearing more about the event.<\/p>\n
Bill Whatcott planned to hold a conference at Lee Funeral Home in Regina on Oct. 28 to discuss Christian views of sexuality.<\/p>\n
But after learning more about the conference, Greg Kulak, general manager of the funeral home, decided it would not be happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will not be using our facility,\u201d said Kulak. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t lend with our core values.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kulak explained Wednesday he was under the impression that the event was a part of bimonthly meetings held by the St. Pius X Catholic Church. \u201cI thought it was basically Latin mass.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kulak received calls about the conference from concerned residents who received a flyer in the mail advertising the event.<\/p>\n
The conference \u2015 Bringing the Light of Christ to Our Culture \u2015 was to feature Peter LaBarbera, president of the U.S.-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. LaBarbera ran into problems during his last visit to Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n
On April 14, LaBarbera and Whatcott were arrested on the University of Regina campus allegedly for refusing to leave when instructed by campus security to do so. Whatcott and LaBarbera set up an anti-abortion display and were handing out anti-LGBT literature.<\/p>\n
Whatcott and LaBarbera stand trial on Oct. 30 in Regina charged with mischief.<\/p>\n
Whatcott, executive director of Christian Truth Activists and the conference\u2019s organizer, said he is talking to a lawyer about the funeral home\u2019s cancellation, alleging a breach of contract. Despite the setback, he insists the conference will go ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am looking for (an) alternative venue. And, ultimately, I\u2019ll just trust God. If I get a place, I\u2019ll get it. And if I don\u2019t get it, it\u2019ll be on Lee\u2019s sidewalk. We\u2019ll just hold the conference there or in his parking lot and he can arrest us and take us out,\u201d Whatcott said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t given up. I was a little surprised that (Kulak) bailed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also scheduled to speak at the conference was Jeffrey Stefaniuk, a Ukrainian Catholic priest and Susan Takata, a Christian missionary.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy take on events in Canada is (that) Christians are, sort of, maligned and under siege,\u201d said Whatcott. \u201cAnd, certainly my belief, and what I want with the speakers that I\u2019ve chosen is to bring a message that as Christians we do have something to offer to the public square. And, we should not be afraid, in these times, to bring our point of view forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Days before the U of R incident, LaBarbera spoke at the Saskatchewan Pro-Life convention on April 11 and 12 in Weyburn. The event was met by protesters and a petition with hundreds of signatures intended to stop LaBarbera from speaking. LaBarbera was initially denied entry into Canada over concerns that he was spreading hate speech. But he won an appeal and agreed to leave the country by April 17.<\/p>\n
In 2005, the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission found Whatcott guilty of inciting hatred against homosexuals in pamphlets he distributed to homes in Regina and Saskatoon in 2001 and 2002. That decision was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada on Feb. 27, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the SHRC\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
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$\"Post\"$ <\/a>by\u00a0Bill Whatcott<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb Fri Oct 17, 2014 2:01 am<\/p>\n
Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
For the sake of truth I would like to inform my readers this statement by Kulak is not true:<\/p>\n
“Kulak explained Wednesday he was under the impression that the event was a part of bimonthly meetings held by the St. Pius X Catholic Church. \u201cI thought it was basically Latin mass.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
In actual fact I gave Greg Kulak a copy of the flyer I distributed throughout Regina and he read it before taking $395.00 off my Mastercard for the conference<\/p>\n
You can see the flyer here and it is quite clear we were a conference on sexuality and religious freedom from a Christian perspective, not a Latin mass:
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“Kulak received calls about the conference from concerned residents who received a flyer in the mail advertising the event.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Yup that is all it took for a fellow Christian to cave and then bear false witness in the media and in the process make those who are anti-Christian and anti-free-speech very happy…..\u00a0 $\"sad1\"$ <\/p>\n
(Here is one group that is happy that Lee has terminated our meeting\u00a0 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/intolerancefreeweyburn\/<\/a>\u00a0The Leader Post Reporter seemed pleased the conference was shut down too)<\/p>\n
Of course God is still in control and His Church will still bear witness to what is true. I just ask for prayers. When Christians do this I find it discouraging…….<\/p>\n
To call Lees and call on Greg to apologize for selling out Whatcott, simply to avoid some negative publicity and crank calls from leftist censors and to either reinstate the conference or compensate Whatcott for all his lost advertising, air tickets and lost wages for his speakers who are coming two days before Bill’s trial because they were supposed to speak at the venue I rented for them, and the $395 hall and catering deposit please call:<\/p>\n
Lee Funeral Home and Crematorium<\/span>
\nManager: Greg Kulak
\n3101 Dewdney Ave
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\nPhone:\u00a0 (306) 757-8645<\/a>
\nFax:\u00a0 (306) 569-6061<\/a>
\nEmail:\u00a0 loc3861@sci-us.com<\/a>
\nWebsite:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.leefunerals.com<\/a><\/p>\n
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\u201cYou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”<\/span>\u00a0Exodus 20:16<\/span><\/p>\n
“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.\u201d<\/span><\/span>
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$\"Post\"$ <\/a>by\u00a0Bill Whatcott<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb Fri Oct 17, 2014 2:15 am<\/p>\n
Dear Friends,<\/p>\n
I thought I had the Delta, but they read the Leader Post article today and cancelled our event too:<\/p>\n
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Dear Mr. Whatcott<\/p>\n
Please be advised that we will not be proceeding with your event planned for our facility on October 28th. The space has been cancelled.<\/p>\n
Doreen<\/p>\n
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