"It's disgusting, it's horrible," says NDP critic Cheri DiNovo about Christian Horizons' staffing contract. The contract, quoting yesterday's article in the Record, says that "all staff [are required] to sign a contract which forbids them from engaging in certain behaviours that go against its religious beliefs, such as adultery, pre-marital sex, homosexuality and 'endorsing' alchohol or cigarettes." Christian Horizons "was recently ordered to compensate a worker who had to quit after revealing she was gay." DiNovo's outrage arises from the fact that CH, Ontario's largest provider of community living, receives public funding.
I haven't read CH's contract, so I don't know if it differentiates between orientation and lifestyle -- hate the sin, but love the sinner -- but I do wonder about DiNovo's vehement reaction. Disgusting? Horrible?
Meanwhile, Bill C-10, a federal proposal which would ensure that arts projects are reviewed before receiving funding, is called censorship. The bill would deny public funds to projects deemed to be offensive: hate propaganda, excessively violent material, pornography. Canadian Director David Cronenberg, reacting to the Bill, says, "It sounds like something they do in Beijing."
Has a Christian lifestyle become so offensive? What has happened! Intolerance has become a four-letter word - hate. As Jesus' followers, we have our work cut out for us. We have to show by the way we live that our intolerance arises from love and obedience. Nothing disgusting or horrible about that.
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