After encountering Bill Whatcott in some on-line forums, I've come to the opinion that he's a bit of a nut-bar and holds some pretty strange views.  Foutunately, Canada's Supreme Court has just determined (indirectly) that Whatcott is allowed to both hold, and, express those views:

REGINA - The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an application by an association of nurses for leave to appeal against former nurse and anti-abortion protester Bill Whatcott.

As is the court's practice, it gave no reasons for its decision on Thursday.

"It's a very important principle, and it would be nice to have a more definitive answer," said Chris Bailey, executive director of the Saskatchewan Association of Licensed Practical Nurses (SALPN).

Whatcott, formerly of Regina and now living in Alberta, was suspended by the association in 2005 for 15 days and ordered to pay $15,000 in costs after the association's discipline committee found him guilty of unprofessional conduct for his protests outside Planned Parenthood Regina in 2002 and 2003.

The committee sanctioned the licensed practical nurse for making untruthful and defamatory comments on his picket signs, including: "Planned Parenthood will give you AIDS." The decision was originally upheld by the Court of Queen's Bench, then overturned by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.

During the appeal hearing, Whatcott's lawyer, Thomas Schuck, said a professional body had no business sanctioning its members for demonstrating on their own time. The appeal court agreed and ruled the association was infringing on Whatcott's constitutional right to freedom of expression.

For the association, the issue wasn't about free speech, but when an nurse's professional responsibilities end.

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But the three appeal court judges, Whatcott, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association - which went to bat for the outspoken activist - took a different view, saying it was a constitutional issue.

"It really cast a chill on all professional bodies, where professional bodies themselves take a political position - and they do - and then start disciplining their members who speak otherwise," Schuck said in an interview Thursday. He contended the original ruling, had it stood, could have affected other professionals, such as lawyers or teachers, who take unpopular views.

Things just got a little more difficult for Canada's HRC's 

From WND

Homosexual activist groups long have denied that ex-"gays" exist and have charged those ministries that work with the needs of those desiring to leave the lifestyle are fraudulent. One such activist even recently attributed the crime of rape to the "sickness" of the ex-"gay" movement.

But some attacks on those who have left the lifestyle, or are trying to, go far beyond verbal denigration, according to those who have experienced it, including Joe and Marion Allen. Their son Bart was in the process of leaving the homosexual lifestyle in 2001 when the "gay" with whom he'd shared an apartment strangled and killed him.

The Allens now run a ministry called Hope for the Broken Heart and they have spoken at conferences for the ex-"gay" ministry Exodus International simply because they cannot be silent about the tragedy in their family, and they want to help others avoid a similar result.

"He [Bart] was in the process of trying to come away from this, and was just involved with a sick, sick man," Mrs. Allen told WND. "He was wanting help. He did not understand his feelings and we certainly did not understand his feelings.

"Thank goodness our child was a believer. He did love the Lord and he was miserable. He knew what the Scriptures said about it," she said. The family looked for help from a counselor but found, instead, despair.

"When Bart came out of her office, he looked like he had been given a death sentence. I know this lady did not realize what she was doing … but she had told him he was born gay," she said.

"She told him we were doing him an injustice by telling him this was wrong and he needed to go on back [to the homosexual lifestyle]," she said.

Her son did go back, but still couldn't accept his own lifestyle choices any longer, and asked the other man to leave the apartment.

"He was trying to make a break and he wanted help. He [Bart] called him from our house, and told him [to move out]," she said. Her son asked the apartment building managers to change his locks, but they declined, assuring him the keys could not be duplicated.

"We don't know [what happened]. The police told us Bart was asleep. He [the attacker] got in and strangled him to death with his hands and a dog leash," Mrs. Allen said.

Like the Mafia, once you're in, there's only one way out...  "Mr. Hat" will make sure of that...

If PETA stuck to ads like this, I'd probably become a supporter:

I'm thinking about a similar ad that promotes spaying and neutering Liberals...  could be a winner...