Skeptic group bashes feds funding homophobic group

In response to the surge of controversy surrounding Crossroads Christian Communications’ receipt of hundreds of thousands of dollars in government aid, the Centre for Inquiry (CFI), Canada’s largest secular and skeptic organization, calls on the Government of Canada to cease all funding of organizations with an openly discriminatory code of ethics.

Crossroads Canada is n evangelical ministry that describes homosexuality as a perversion and a sin on our public website. Crossroad’s anti-homosexuality stance is open discrimination. It is outrageous that an organization received this level of government funding while its main purpose is evangelism.

CFI is deeply concerned about the double standard which is set between secular and religious charities. When most secular charities receive government funding, there are miles of red tape that they have to put up with; it amazes me that a religious group would receive so much funding while having practices which contravene the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

It certainly points to a double standard. If a charity receives government funding, the government should ensure that the programming is directed to positive societal change, not to promoting a discriminatory religious ideology.

Payton is national director of CFI