Christian Counselor Suspended For Defending Traditional Marriage

April 7, 2005 -- In a decision handed down on April 4, [British Columbia] Quesnel School District Superintendent Ed Napier suspended school counselor Dr. Chris Kempling for three months. Dr. Kempling has been employed as a counselor since 1990, and has been active in a wide variety of volunteer positions in the community. He is also the local spokesperson of the federal Christian Heritage Party, and had written a letter to the editor of the local newspaper on behalf of his party, criticizing the Liberal government's same sex marriage legislation. The school district did not provide a single example of disruption to the school system, or any negative effect of the letter. They also ignored over a dozen letters of reference from supervisors and community members written in support of Dr. Kempling."It is truly unfortunate that the Quesnel School Board believes that only those
who support same sex marriage are able to comment publicly on a matter of
national importance, " stated Dr. Kempling. "It is a sad day for freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and freedom of political affiliation. But more
significantly, I am most concerned about the young children with serious
emotional needs, who will be deprived of their counselor at a time when they
need help most. Counseling, much more than teaching, involves a close
personal relationship where trust develops over time. I'm really very worried about their well-being."

Dr. Kempling plans to fight the suspension through the grievance process, as well as through the BC Human Rights Tribunal under the category of political discrimination.

Persecution Began Years Ago
Dr. Kempling has been persecuted for his views on homosexuality for years. In 2003, he was given a one-month suspension by the British Columbia College of Teachers for a series of letters to newspapers on the way that local sex education programs presented the issue of homosexuality to children.

Kempling sought assistance from the British Columbia Teachers Federation and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. Neither would help him. Kempling’s church, however, contributed $30,000 to his defense fund.

A British Columbia court upheld his one-month suspension. The judge in the case speculated that Kempling’s views would cause disruption within the school system and would discourage homosexual students from coming to him for counseling.

Kempling Details His Case At NARTH Conference
In November, 2003, Dr. Kempling gave a speech at a conference sponsored by the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) in Salt Lake City.

In his speech, Kempling noted that one of his colleagues remarked that “the current situation with gay rights is like the aftermath of a Communist revolution. The revolutionaries are now in control and all opposition must be silenced, the way Stalin and Castro did so effectively. This is the way appears to be now in Canada, and in many U.S. states as well.”

Kempling says his encounter with the homosexual thought police began in August of 1996 when he attended a Youth at Risk conference in Vancouver. He attended a workshop titled, “Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth at Risk” and was shocked at what he discovered.

The workshop presenters promoted the 10% are homosexual urban legend, urged teachers to provide pornography to students and to encourage students to join masturbation clubs.

As a result of attending this workshop, Kempling began writing a series of letters to the editor explaining the dangers of homosexual behavior and countering the misinformation being taught children in the Canadian school system.

His factual writings on homosexuality drew the attention of the British Columbia College of Teachers and he was convicted of “conduct unbecoming a member” of the organization in 2001.

Kempling also learned that the Canadian equivalent of the ACLU had sided with the College of Teachers and stated that he should not be allowed to be a public school teacher at all because of his negative views on homosexuality.

Dr. Kempling’s speech is reprinted with NARTH permission in full here: http://www.traditionalvalues.org/pdf_files/colliding_world_views.pdf.

Homo-Fascism In America
Dr. Kempling’s persecution for exercising his freedom of speech about homosexuality is a grim look into the future in the United States if homosexuals win passage of federal hate crime legislation or achieve victory in gaining the alleged “right” to marry.

Canadian homosexuals have bragged about how they are going to target anyone who criticizes them—and they’re after children for recruitment. After a homosexual hate crimes bill was passed by the Canadian Parliament in 2004, Mark Hanlon, director of External Issues at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered group at Memorial University of Newfoundland, sent a threatening memo to pro-family groups in Canada.

In his memo, he said: “These right winged, conservatives are teaching these same messages to their children for the good of society and for the good of morals and ethics. Let's get this one thing straight to all you Conservative groups---your children's attitudes, if they inherit these beliefs from you--will be in a minority down the road. You are setting them on a dangerous path of intolerance and hate. Stop this path-before the world of tomorrow judges them and, thanks to this bill, prisons or fines them. Crimes of hate against the LBGT community will be treated equally with anti-semitism, and anti-African Canadian hate crimes.”

This same persecution awaits any American who criticizes homosexuality if a federal hate crimes law passes or same-sex marriage is legalized throughout the United States.

TVC’s report on the Kennedy/Smith hate crimes bill explains the dangers facing us from homo-fascists here in the U.S.: “Hate Crime Legislation: Unequal Protection Under The Law.”

TVC’s reports on the effort to legalize same-sex marriage should be widely distributed: http://www.traditionalvalues.org/search.php?search=homosexual+marriage

The homosexual agenda must be defeated in the United States. If it is not, we will face the same kind of persecution that is being imposed upon Dr. Chris Kempling in British Columbia. Homo-Fascism must not be allowed to trump religious freedom and free speech in America. The stakes are high. We cannot afford to lose this fight.

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