"If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn't have said a word."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

City officials in West Kelowna and Abbotsford say they are reviewing safety protocols and event permitting ahead of appearances by Sean Feucht, a U.S. Christian musician and preacher whose Canadian “worship tour” has already faced a wave of cancellations elsewhere in the country.

Last week, authorities, including Parks Canada in Halifax and municipal officials in Charlottetown, Quebec City, Moncton, Gatineau and Vaughan — revoked permits or cancelled events, citing public safety concerns or misalignment with community values.

Feucht, a MAGA-supporting Christian Nationalist worship-music singer said on X on July 24, “If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn’t have said a word.”

He later claimed on X the cancellations were “blatant Christian persecution in Canada.”

https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-cities-backlash-public-venues-controversial-us-preacher

[usonian]

1. The intolerant decry intolerance?

Every accusation is a confession.

[LearnedHand]

2. Wow. I love that Canada has built in protections around its freedom of speech rights

If the US is ever sane again, we could learn from that model.

EDIT: And fuck that white nationalist guy for trying to export US Christianity to other countries.

[marble falls]

5. People misunderstand what "free speech" is. It's speech you won't be arrested for until you make it ...

... it's speech without prior restraint.

[LearnedHand]

6. I understand that. I'm saying the Canada type of prior restraint has some value.

[marble falls]

7. Wasn't meant for you, I would never aim a Constitutional explanation to Judge Learned Hand!!!

This also is not for you,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_Hand

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Ah, someone who understands Near vs Minnesota !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_v._Minnesota

[Norrrm]

3. Does Feucht speak out against clergy molesting children with equal fervor or is that

'no big deal' to him?

[marble falls]

4. Dingbat has the right to sing and everybody else has the right not to listen to his crap.

[niyad]

8. Isn't he the creep "preacher" who was involved with "hands qbert"?

[Bev54]

10. If anyone showed up with purple hair and dressed like a woman in Canada, we still wouldn't say a word.

He is definitely not welcome here.

[calimary]

11. Just another scheming jerk trying to use Jesus to fleece people.

[mwmisses4289]

12. Oh, look, another fake christian pouting and throwing a tantrum because

people aren't buying his hypocrisy.

[patphil]

13. blatant Christian persecution in Canada?

He carries far too much hate within him to actually be a Christian. Jesus taught a gospel of love, not hate. If he wants to be a Christian, he's got to do a 180, and walk back up out of the darkness of where he is now, and actually embrace the teachings of Jesus. But it appears he prefers to walk the path of hate.
Hate speech is not protected in Canada.

[Ray Bruns]

14. More fake "Christian persecution."

[William Seger]

15. "...a MAGA-supporting Christian Nationalist worship-music singer..."

What a mess -- there's no such thing as a MAGA-supporting Christian; a Nationalist is a polite term for a bigotted tribalist; and he has very poor taste in music.