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On December 1st, 2021, the Trudeau Liberals rammed through their latest so-called “conversion therapy” ban (Bill C-4). With the gleeful complicity of Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, who has betrayed parents, Christians, and democracy itself, all debate was waived, and Bill C-4 now heads to the Senate for approval.

The Liberals’ previous “conversion therapy” ban (Bill C-6) failed when the writ was dropped for the recent federal election. Bill C-4 replaces and expands upon Bill C-6.

Under Bill C-4, it will be illegal to provide any “practice, treatment or service” to help anyone overcome unwanted same-sex attraction or transgender confusion. That “practice, treatment, or service” could include psychotherapy, professional counselling, group therapy, as well as pastoral teaching, prayer, or even parental advice.

Believe it or not, it will even be a crime for parents to have house rules not allowing gender-confused children to dress as the opposite sex under their own roof.

Bill C-4 prohibits pro-family help for both children and adults – even if they consent – even if they ask for help!

Apparently, Canadians no longer have the freedom to choose the personal therapies or spiritual guidance we want for ourselves. Big Brother knows best!

According to the Canadian Press, “The legislation [Bill C-4], if passed, would outright prohibit practices designed to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity — even when it comes to consenting adults.”

In other words, it will be illegal to help a person follow the path of biblical sexuality and to embrace biblical gender roles, even if that is what he or she sincerely wants to do. Think about it –  if an LGBT-identifying person says that his lifestyle no longer makes him happy, and he wants counselling to help leave it behind, it will be illegal to give him that support.

It will be forbidden to proclaim as normative the biological basis for human gender or the procreative purpose for human sexuality.

It will be a Criminal Code offence to carry out a medical practice, counselling service, church ministry, or parenting technique that operates on “an assumption that a particular sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression is to be preferred over another.” (Section 320.101).

In other words, Canadians must deny God made Adam and Eve.

According to this ideological Liberal diktat, thou shalt not help “change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual.” (Section 320.101). That’s the new sin. Though it’s acceptable for our public school system to lure students into a gay lifestyle, with some schools even transporting classrooms full of kids to gay pride parades.

Also, thou shalt not help “change a person’s gender identity to [match their biological sex].” (Section 320.101). That’s another new sin. But it’s apparently no problem to encourage people to deviate from their biological sex. Bill C-4 permits counselling to undergo chemical and surgical “sex change”.

Somehow, according to Trudeau’s twisted logic, it is OK to counsel someone to change from their birth sex to one of any number of made-up genders, and that is not considered “conversion therapy” under Bill C-4. You can even cut off healthy body parts and render yourself sterile if it “affirms” you in that fake gender. That is not considered “torture” by the Trudeau Liberals. But to be counselled to accept your own genetics and anatomy is deemed “torture” by these same Liberals?!

How absurd!

If Bill C-4 passes in the Senate, which it surely will do if we do not speak up, we can expect the following scenarios:

• If, after being indoctrinated by his pro-LGBT classroom teacher, little Johnny says he feels like a girl and wants to wear make-up and a dress to school, mom and dad dare not say a word – or they risk five years in jail for “providing conversion therapy”! (Section 320.102).

• If a hurting woman comes into your church seeking forgiveness and restoration after struggling with same-sex attraction, your pastoral team had better turn her away – or they risk five years in jail for “providing conversion therapy”! (Section 320.102).

• If your pastor or priest wants to deliver a message on 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, you had better stop him – or he could go to jail for two years for “promot[ing]... conversion therapy”! (Section 320.103).

• If an ex-trans wants to make a donation to your church in gratitude for the spiritual healing she received in the past, you had better stop her – or you could face two years in jail for “receiv[ing] a financial or other material benefit... from the provision of conversion therapy”! (Section 320.104).

Bill C-4 is the worst statist attack I have ever seen on the church and family in Canada.

Having trouble believing these dire predictions? Might I just be overreacting with worst-case scenarios that won’t ever materialize? Watch this video compilation put together by Campaign Life Coalition, in which Liberal Cabinet Ministers admit that a “conversion therapy” ban can have these very consequences:

I would ask you to please send a personal message to your provincial Senators using our Action Alert Email tool. These messages will call on them to respect the wishes of their constituents and reject Trudeau’s radical, domineering LGBT agenda. 

The Trudeau government has expressed a desire to get Bill C-4 enacted before Christmas. What a slap in the face that would be to believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, who taught us, “But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’” (Mark 10:6).

We need to work to stop Bill C-4 in the Senate before it is finally approved. For the sake of our children, our families, our churches, and our freedoms, we must not allow this “conversion therapy” ban, which we are calling the “Parental Persecution Bill”, to become law.

Yours for Life,

David Cooke
National Campaigns Manager
Campaign Life Coalition

P.S. Please contact your Sentaors today: https://stoptheban.ca/lobby-the-senate/

P.P.S. You can also add your name to our growing petition here: https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/petition/id/32