Like it or not, I can accept that Lund has a right to espouse his pro-gay views and be an activist on behalf on them.  What I cannot accept is how Lund’s crosses the line by demonizing, persecuting and defaming, without end, anyone who shares an opposing view and how he also portrays himself as a martyr for his cause. In the midst of the constant negative commentary about me and my views in the Advocate, it was refreshing to read a recent letter to the editor that highlighted the good work that volunteers, staff and I did back between 1998 and 2004 with at-risk youth in Red Deer.  That letter  was written by Jim Swan of Red Deer who was a board member of the youth charity that I once directed.  I have not spoken to Jim for years but I remember him as a very kind and passionate man.  Then Lund feels a need to attack Mr. Swan’s letter too (see here).  It would make one think that Lund considers himself some type of authority that must censor the media just in case someone says something nice about me or contrary to his agenda.  After all he has a reputation to uphold, my character to assassinate and God forbid that anyone be influenced by an opinion he does not approve of.

Over the last months there have been numerous articles that attempt to cast a negative light on me and my views.  Some continue the preposterous claim that there is a link between my 2002 letter and the assault on a gay teen two weeks after it was printed.  I hold Lund directly responsible for perpetuating this circumstancial accusation.  Much of what Lund presents is not factual and is instead misleading the public.  He is tactful and seeks to gain the readers approval through constant use of buzz-words that either entice one to shake their head in agreement or disgust.  Words such as tolerance, intolerant, hateful, bigot, violent, homophobic and vulnerable are just a few of these buzz-words.   

 

Let’s face it, Lund and I are on very different sides of the fence.  Some of what he claims I said and believe is true. I am admittedly anti-homosexuality and do not agree with the lifestyle.  I do believe that it is psychologically and physically dangerous and I cannot be made to feel guilty for holding this view. I do speak out against the propagation of the lifestyle, especially when directed at young students.  At the same time I have compassion and tolerance towards homosexuals.  I stand by my 2002 letter to the editor.  I would not change one word of it.  I wrote that letter because of people like Darren Lund.  Some tout him as a hero and he is for those that hold his views.  I am not one of them.  Lund is no hero to me or to those who hold to the same Christian views that I hold.  To us he is instead an anti-hero who is causing great damage to our young people and to our society at large.  Where you aware, that when Lund was a teacher at Lindsay Thurber High School, he invited a pro-gay minister into his so called tolerance program to teach the pro-homosexual view of the Bible?  Where you aware, that he did not provide the teenage students with an equal opportunity to hear a presentation from a minister that held an opposing view?  Of course not, according to Lund and his kind, an opposing view is the wrong view and he decides what view is best for your children.  Where you aware that the same Alberta Human Rights Commission that welcomed Lund’s complaint against me used your tax dollars to fund the pro-gay Alberta P-Flag Faith Society’s initiative to teach children that homosexuality is “normal, necessary, acceptable and productive and has been for thousands of years?”  My letter was far from a baseless rant.  It is even more true today than it was then.

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On another occasion, immediately after I spoke at a fundraising event in Calgary, a group of masked individuals dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Queer Militia stormed the event, pounded on the walls while chanting “Right wing bigots go away, Queer Militia here to stay!” They then took over the podium and shouted obscenities such as “F_ _ k your Jesus” at the guests.

http://www.stephenboissoin.com/defamation.html

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Hateful Homosexuals attack a Christian fund raiser.