Canadian Christian Organization Appealing Human Rights Ruling

by Staff
May 22, 2008

(christiansunite.com) - Christian Horizons, an evangelical Christian organization, is appealing part of the Ontario Human Rights Commission's recent ruling which stated that it violated the rights of a former worker, Connie Heintz (39), by terminating her employment when she revealed that she was a lesbian in 2000 (see www.persecution.net/news/canada23.html for more details).

The ruling ordered Christian Horizons to compensate Heintz $23,000 in lost wages and to stop requiring its staff to sign an explicitly Christian morality code. Christian Horizons stated that it will no longer require employees to sign the code but plans to appeal the remainder of the tribunal's order.

Opposition political parties have called on the province to consider pulling funding from the group, claiming that it is unjustly imposing its beliefs on its employees.