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CANADA: LAW COULD LOCK UP RELIG PEOPLE FOR FIVE YEARS IF THEY RIST CHILD’S ‘TRANSN,’ GAY INTY
Evangelil Prottants, most often the vanguard of antigay protts, have been a visible prence Canadian polil life, but they are much ls fluential than their Amerin s, nstutg ls than 10% of the overall populatn (Malloy, 2011).
At tim this has led Canadians to believe that their society is more acceptg than is, though this turn has helped legimize explicly homophobic polil disurse.
Individual unns, mostly the public sector, began supportg lbian and gay claims the 1980s, and the next a good part of the overall labor movement was assertively backg the LGBT e and soon takg on issu of genr inty as well as sexual orientatn. (Discrimatory elements remaed, for example, a higher age of nsent for homosexual activy, though most of the were stck down by urt lgs later s.