Tue Mar 14, 2023 – 7:49 pm EDTTue Mar 14, 2023 – 8:01 pm EDT
CALGARY, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Calgary City Council is looking to pass new legislation that would place a 100-meter buffer zone around city recreation centres and libraries that would ban concerned parents and pastors from protesting against drag queen story time or other LGBTQ events at those facilities.
Calgary City Council began debating a new “Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw” that would disallow “specified protests” both inside and outside all city-owned and affiliated public buildings.
According to the wording of the bylaw, a “specified protest” is defined as follows:
As a “means an expression of objection or disapproval towards an idea or action related to race, religious beliefs, colour, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income, family status or sexual orientation by any means, including graphic, verbal, or written means, but does not include messaging at an event scheduled by a library or recreation facility.”
Those who are found guilty of breaking the new rules, should they become law, could be hit with fines of up to $10,000 or one-year
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