{"id":22402,"date":"2016-07-05T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=22402"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:10:51","slug":"being-on-the-right-side-of-history-where-the-offended-take-away-religious-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/intersection\/2016\/07\/05\/being-on-the-right-side-of-history-where-the-offended-take-away-religious-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Being On the Right Side of History: Where the Offended Take Away Religious Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 22 of 42 in the series Trinity Western University<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Trinity Western University\u2019s Community Covenant is discriminatory and it hurts. So said Ontario Court of Appeal Justice James C. MacPherson on June 29<\/a>. He decided that the Covenant, which requires TWU\u2019s student body to abide by a lifestyle in harmony with traditional marriage, \u201cis deeply discriminatory to the LGBTQ community, and it hurts.\u201d As far as he was concerned, based on that hurt, the Law Society of Upper Canada\u2019s denial of accreditation to TWU\u2019s School of Law was reasonable.<\/p>\n

That is a far different conclusion from what the Supreme Court of Canada said in 2001<\/a>. The Supreme Court reviewed TWU\u2019s admissions policy in a case involving the accreditation of TWU\u2019s education degree. It also recognized the same hurt. Back then the Court was willing to allow applicants to be offended for the sake of keeping Canada a diverse society where not everyone agrees on matters of sexuality. The 2001 Court accepted that TWU\u2019s admissions requirement would mean that \u201ca homosexual student would not be tempted to apply for admission;\u201d if they did so, it would be \u201cat a considerable personal cost.\u201d The Court understood that \u201cTWU is not for everybody,\u201d rather \u201cit is designed to address the needs of people who share a number of religious convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

If TWU\u2019s standards were \u201csufficient in themselves to justify denying accreditation, it is difficult to see how the same logic would not result in the denial of accreditation to members of a particular church.\u201d  That was a very good point by the 2001 Court. You deny the religious university professional accreditation, because of its standards, then logically you must also deny members of a church who hold the same views as that university. It makes sense. It is clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe diversity of Canadian society,\u201d said the 2001 Court, \u201cis partly reflected in the multiple religious organizations that mark the societal landscape and this diversity of views should be respected.\u201d The Court was interested in maintaining the freedom of Canadians to hold diverse views and be different \u2013 even if others are offended \u2013 as long as such differences did not go against public policy. Traditional sexual moral views were not deemed to have crossed that line. In other words, we could be different and still live together allowing religious communities to be unlike the secular society but still remain part of the Canadian mosaic.<\/p>\n

That was then. Justice MacPherson\u2019s views are the new now \u2013 because it is 2016 perhaps. Times have changed. No longer do those views of the 2001 Supreme Court hold sway \u2013 not for the Ontario Courts and the Law Society of Upper Canada.<\/p>\n

Justice MacPherson agreed with the Ontario Divisional Court that the Supreme Court\u2019s 2001 decision is not applicable because it involved different facts, a different statutory regime and a fundamentally different question. However, that is a curious position given the striking similarities between the two cases. Consider this:<\/p>\n

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2001 TWU Education Degree Case<\/td>\n2016 TWU Law Degree Case<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1.        TWU Degree Accreditation\u2014Education Degree<\/td>\n1.       TWU Degree Accreditation\u2014Law Degree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.       Professional Administrative Decision of Government Actor acting in the \u201cpublic interest\u201d\u2014British Columbia College of Teachers<\/td>\n2.       Professional Administrative Decision of Government Actors acting in the \u201cpublic interest\u201d\u2014BC Law Society; Law Society of Upper Canada; Nova Scotia Barristers\u2019 Society<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.       Accusation\u2014Potential Discrimination against homosexuals by TWU students suspected but there was no evidence of discrimination.<\/td>\n3.       Accusation\u2014Discrimination against LGBTQ by TWU\u2019s Admission\u2019s policies\u2014students deemed competent and there is no evidence of discrimination of TWU students<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.       Instrument\u2014Community Standards<\/td>\n4.       Instrument\u2014Community Covenant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Lawyers are great at parsing distinctions. We do it for a living. The supposedly great distinction between the two TWU cases is this:<\/p>\n

In 2001, the question was whether the BC College of Teachers could accredit TWU\u2019s education program, with the discriminatory admissions criteria, for fear that TWU graduates might discriminate against gay students when they taught;<\/p>\n

In 2016, the question is the whether a law society can accredit TWU\u2019s law program in light of TWU\u2019s requirement that applicants have to sign the Community Covenant.<\/p>\n

Catch the difference?  It\u2019s there, but rather opaque.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the general public might be excused for thinking that the distinction is rather esoteric.  It is.  But that is really not the point. The point is that politics not law has evolved to such a degree that the legal profession is being pressured to deny TWU\u2019s law school because \u201cit hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conveniently overlooked in this technical argument is the fact that the Supreme Court in 2001 did turn its mind to the admissions requirement and ruled, as noted above, that there is a cost but in Canada we are willing to agree to disagree and move on. That does not diminish one person\u2019s hurt because of another\u2019s offensive view. Rather, offense is not, and should never be, the basis for removing a constitutional right.<\/p>\n

What kind of society are we going to be when offence becomes the rationale to take away another\u2019s right? At one time, the majority were so offended by the sexual activity of others that rights were denied. Now the tables have turned \u2013 those in power are denying the religious freedom of those whose sexual norms are centred on traditional marriage. Perhaps we have yet to learn the lesson.  What if, the tables turn again \u2013 as they often do in human history? Offence is a poor substitute for law.<\/p>\n

TWU, unlike the Law Society of Upper Canada, is on the wrong side of history \u2013 for now. \u201cThe benchers knew,\u201d wrote Justice MacPherson, \u201cthat they were making an historic decision.\u201d Historic indeed.<\/p>\n

When the final history of this case is written we will learn a lot about the state of the law in Canada.  Whether the Supreme Court of Canada decisions have a longer shelf life than 15 years. Whether private religious institutions, not subject to the Charter, can suddenly become subject to the Charter by an indirect means. Whether we are a country that has a plurality of religious views or whether the religious citizens must all give credence to the state\u2019s definition of sexual morality.<\/p>\n

History will also be changed as the Charter becomes the \u201cblueprint for moral conformity\u201d as Justice Jamie S. Campbell warned in his Nova Scotia decision. Justice MacPherson\u2019s decision has the effect of saddling private religious organizations with the burden of the Charter as is the government. Under such a regime human rights legislation becomes redundant. All private entities must ensure total equality. No more distinctions. That prospect will now challenge the very notion of Canada\u2019s plural society. Religious communities can no longer rely on the protection of the Charter for their right to practice their distinctive religious faith. A government agency, such as the Law Society of Upper Canada, now has the full sway to determine what religious practice is \u201creasonable,\u201d and do so based on subjective popular opinion of what is offensive.<\/p>\n

This is a total rewriting of our law. It is a total rewriting of the Constitutional protection of religious freedom. Welcome to the right side of history… where the offended take away religious freedom.<\/p>\n

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Lawyers representing TWU and pro-TWU interveners<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 22 of 42 in the series Trinity Western University<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Trinity Western University\u2019s Community Covenant is discriminatory and it hurts. So said Ontario Court of Appeal Justice James C. MacPherson on June 29. 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