A Canadian Christian man faces up to two years in prison and a charge of promoting hatred after distributing pamphlets that included Bible verses and graphic medical pictures.
Bill Whatcott, 51, is accused of violating the nation’s hate crimes law, which prohibits “willful promotion of hatred.”
He passed out around 3,000 pamphlets at the 2016 Pride Toronto parade and a warrant was issued for his arrest in June of this year, The Toronto Star reported. He turned himself in to police.
“This notion that I hate homosexuals is rubbish,” Whatcott said in an interview before he turned himself in to police. “When the Left accuses conservative Christians of hate, they’re really being disingenuous, because it’s them that hate.
“… What I do is I speak the truth, and I think the truth is the loving thing to share, even when it’s hard to share,” he added. “If you’ve got a kid who is doing drugs and ruining his life, [then] just telling him it’s fine is not helpful. You have to tell him he’s destroying himself. … The homosexual lifestyle and the homosexual agenda certainly destroys the lives of homosexuals, and it is harmful to the entire nation.”
The pamphlets included graphic pictures of the result of sexually transmitted diseases.
“The rejection of true marriage is … in direct opposition to God’s law and it is our duty to warn…
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