A New Level of Hostility: Faith Groups Alarmed as Bill Impacting Religious Speech About to Become Law

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David Cooke, national campaigns manager for Campaign Life Coalition, prepares to speak at a rally opposing Bill C-6 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 4, 2020. The Epoch TimesAs the federal government’s new anti-hate bill is now before the Senate and about to become law, faith leaders are warning that the elimination of religious defence from the Criminal Code could lead to “actual persecution under a cloak of supposed legality.”“We could be investigated, arrested, and jailed for merely expressing the tenets of our faith and quoting the word of God,” Christian pastor David Cooke told The Epoch Times.

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