Religious Left

Bruce Ward, The Ottawa Citizen The Bible says the meek shall inherit the Earth, but there was no trace of meekness in Faytene Kryskow and her passionate preaching yesterday on Parliament Hill. "We're going to turn Parliament Hill into the Wailing Wall," Ms. Kryskow told about 400 followers spread out on Parliament's front lawn. The prayer gathering is known as The Cry, a rally for fundamentalist youth who believe mainstream Canadian society is morally bankrupt. Ms. Kryskow, one of The Cry's leaders, urged the young people in the crowd to send out "prayer waves" that would incite a revolution against Canada's secular humanism. The rally began at Jacques Cartier Park in Gatineau with music and prayer, followed by a "prayer march" across the Alexandra Bridge to Parliament Hill. A Cry leaflet handed out at the rally urged people to "Pray for all those who are involved with Gay Pride week in Ottawa, pray that they would know the love of God...

Ottawa–A comedy about a gay couple raising a child should not have received any government help, an evangelical activist says. "We are objecting to films that proselytize young people into homosexuality," Charles McVety, president of the Canada Family Action Coalition, told reporters yesterday. McVety was in the capital to appear before the Senate banking and commerce committee, which is debating controversial tax amendments at the heart of a bill that would alter guidelines for which films get public money. Canada's entertainment industry fears Bill C-10 will give the federal heritage minister too much power in deciding which films and shows should be excluded from tax breaks because they are not in the public interest. Breakfast with Scot, released last fall, is about a gay ex-hockey player and his partner caring for a young orphan who displays less-than-masculine tendencies. "(It) is about an 11-year-old boy who is being raised by a homosexual Toronto Maple Leaf t...