Bill C-6 and what it changes
The new bill speaks in its preamble of "the myth that a person's sexual orientation and gender identity can and ought to be changed." It then prohibits advertisements "for conversion therapy." At first glance I saw no real problem with the bill (apart from the ideologically driven preamble). I didn't hardly know what conversion therapy was, nor had I any interest in learning more. But I read on... and discovered that conversion therapy is defined as "a practice, treatment or service designed to change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender, or to repress or reduce a non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour." Still I didn't see anything too worrying about what I was reading. As a pastor I don't offer "a practice" or "treatment" of any kind to anyone let alone those mentioned specifically in the bill. And I can't exactly advertise what I don't offer. ...