Lifesite has an article (via relapsed catholic) regarding a human rights case in Alberta involving Rev. Steven Boissoin and Craig Chandler.
The case began in 2004 with this letter written by Steven Boissoin to the Red Deer newspaper. A complaint about hate speech was filed by Dr. Darren Lund of the University of Calgary.
It has gone before the Alberta Human rights tribunal and the ruling was in favour of Boissoin, Chandler and the three websites mentioned in the complaint:  Free to Speak: Concerned Christians Canada and Freedom Radio Network. which are still active.
Chandler’s main site is Concerned Christians Canada. The header reads, “For Profit and Proud of It!”  Steven Boissoin was executive director of that site in 2004 and now works with for a youth ministry called Cave. Â
Links to the CCC show the usual Canadian offshots to familar religious rights groups such as Concerned Women of America and another right wing lobbiest, Tristan Emmanual of Equipping Christians for the Public Square.
Chandler is also a conservative radio host in Calgary.
Boissoin is a member of an independent charismastic word/faith full gospel church named Life Church. He is being defended by the US Alliance Defense Fund.
Update: 06/12/09 Steven Boissoin states: I have never heard of this organization nor could my doctrinal position be defined as charismatic/full Gospel in the denominational sense.
Lifesite says  Dr. Darren Lund and other homosexual activists filed the complaint. Lund filed the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal complaint, Rob Wells filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission
In the Lifesite article Craig Chandler talks about the money he feels he needs to go before the Canadian Commission. He doesn’t name the gay and lesbian groups opposing him, and says if he loses he will take the activists to civil court.
Alberta Human Rights Ruling – May 1, 2006 (.pdf)
Review request by Dr. Lund to the Alberta Tribunal
Canadian Human Rights Commission
Robert Bell
Chandler PR on Alberta Ruling
Craig Chandler – wiki
CBCÂ
Robert Bell
Eagle Support for Steven Boissoin
I think you’ve done a good job of pulling together a number of the resources on this one. There are too many angles for me to pull them all together just yet…
I have been following this case from time to time, along with the case of Mullen on the east coast. Apart from obvious divides on “the issue”, one link between both cases, from my particular vantage point, is the involvement of university professors, and the broad questions about freedom of speech and expression, and the role of the academy. One recent article in the U of A Expressnews by an academic librarian lamented the fact that so many of books being purchased are “curriculum driven”, sometimes at the expense of allowing competing viewpoints into the academy for wider discussion.
On the legal side, I found the panel’s reference to the Dagenais case rather thought provoking: are we moving toward an absolute (?American) sense of freedom of expression?
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