LILLEY: Canada's left shows they don't support free speech

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Sean Feucht was supposed to do a short six date tour through Canada. Now, after CBC launched a holy war against him, alongside the Liberal Party of Canada, the Christian singer and pastor has added more dates to his Canadian tour. 

He was shut down from playing in several public venues and the church that he performed his worship songs in while visiting Montreal was threatened with a $2,500 fine for allowing him to sing Christian songs. 

“The place where I got the biggest persecution and resistance was in Canada. That’s wild. Not Iraq or Turkey, but Canada,” Feucht said, while leading the crowd in worship Sunday night in Toronto. 

Feucht has toured Canada in the past without issue; he’s toured the world without issue, including in majority Muslim countries like Iraq and Turkey. But in Canada, there was an attempt to shut him down.

CBC led the charge to say that this singer who has supported Donald Trump and who spoke out against COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 shouldn’t be allowed to perform in Canada. 

The rest of the lemmings in Canada’s mainstream media decided to follow suit. 

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, part of Canada’s constitution, states that “Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:”

• freedom of conscience and religion; 

• freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; 

• freedom of peaceful assembly; and 

• freedom of association 

Canada’s Supreme Court has determined that those rights and freedoms apply to non-citizens as well, and yet public venue after public venue shut down Feucht from performing. The reasoning was suspect at best but came down to they didn’t like what he had said in the past. 

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Apparently, this Christian pastor is pro-life and not a fan of abortion, which according to CBC and most lazy media outlets, makes him anti-women. Do they not realize that millions of Canadian women are also pro-life and are opposed to abortion? 

There is a claim that Feucht is also against the 2SLGBTQ+ community because he believes in the traditional definition of marriage. So do most Catholic priests and bishops in Canada, most Orthodox Rabbis and most Muslim Imams. 

You can accept and love someone, which Christianity tells you to do, without fully embracing how they live their life. That is a sin, according to the secular world that we live in, and anything short of embracing and participating in this worldview is the gravest sin. 

When I was young, it was the left who said live and let live. 

Now the left says accept whatever we declare to be valid, or we will call you a bigot, a racist, and a homophobe. 

Thankfully, fewer people are willing to accept this bullying tactic, it simply isn’t true. We can, and should have, a variety of political and religious views and not be subject to a homogeneous world view. 

I may be a Christian, but my Catholic viewpoint is different than what Sean Feucht puts forward. His view on the Gospel, on Christ, on so many issues is different than mine and our politics are different, as well. 

None of that takes away from the fact that even as an American, as a visitor to this country, that he should have the ability to speak, sing and perform freely. 

If you believe he should be shut down because he has supported Trump in the past, maybe you should fold your tent and move south because you are embracing what you claim to hate.