Attorney for teen suspended after opposing trans ideology says religious freedom 'essentially dead' in Canada

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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A lawyer for a Canadian Catholic high school student who was reportedly
suspended for opposing transgender ideology said his client's legal battle
shows freedom in the country is quickly eroding.

"I think it's representative of where the culture is at, where society is
at, and where our government institutions are at up here," attorney James
Kitchen told Fox News Digital of the case against 16-year-old Josh
Alexander.

The high school junior was arrested on Feb. 6 for allegedly trespassing
after he showed up at St. Joseph's Catholic High School in Renfrew,
Ontario, despite an exclusion order. Kitchen is taking legal action by
appealing the exclusion order against Alexander and filing a human rights
complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

Alexander, who describes himself as a born-again Christian, was first
suspended in November for organizing protests at his school against
biological males in girls' bathrooms and arguing in class that God created
two unchangeable genders.

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Alexander's suspension was technically lifted in January but has
effectively continued after the Renfrew County Catholic District School
Board "excluded" him for the rest of the school year. Alexander told The
Epoch Times that his principal offered a return to school if the teen
stopped using the "dead name," or given name, of transgender students and
excluded himself from classes with two transgender students.

Kitchen, who serves as chief litigator with Liberty Coalition Canada, said
he never realized how big Alexander's case would become when he first got
in touch with him around Christmas, after Alexander's initial suspension
from the government-funded school.

Founded by clergy in January 2021, Liberty Coalition Canada's website said
it is committed to "supporting Canadians who are facing unjust and illegal
discrimination for exercising their lawful freedoms."

"I never imagined it would go up to quite this level," Kitchen said. "I
knew it would probably end up being publicized and there'd be some sort of
conflict because I knew Josh wasn't going to back down."

Kitchen believes both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are in
steep decline in Canada but noted that religious liberty is evaporating
more quickly. He said many Canadians do not understand the gravity of the
threat their government increasingly poses to religious freedom, which he
said is "essentially dead" after withering "for about 10 or 15 years."

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Kitchen said the Supreme Court of Canada issued "the nail in the coffin"
with a 2018 decision against Trinity Western University in British
Columbia. The Christian school, which attempted to establish the first
Christian law school in Canada, appealed to the high court after regional
law societies refused to accredit them based on their student covenant
that prohibited extramarital sex.

Kitchen said the legal precedent laid down in that case "really gutted
religious freedom in Canada," and that such trends have accelerated in
recent years as authorities jailed pastors and seized church properties
during the pandemic. Alexander's case, he said, is another escalation.

The lawyer pinpointed Bill C-4, which the Canadian Parliament passed last
year, as a "perfect example" of the encroaching wave against religious
freedom in Canada.

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Under the law that prompted protests from thousands of churches throughout
North America, therapists in Canada who provide any form of counseling to
repress or reduce "non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behavior" or
"non-cisgender identity" could face up to five years in prison.

"We don't have any cases on it yet, we don't have any charges, so we're
all just kind of waiting to see what the government decides to do with
that," said Kitchen, who predicted that "the gender and sexuality issue"
is going to lead to more legal clashes between Christians and the Canadian
government.

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"I fully expect in the next 12-24 months to get a call that a pastor or
some other religious leader has been arrested because he's been caught
telling some guy who thinks he's a woman that maybe he should consider
being OK with being a man instead of transitioning to be a woman," Kitchen
said.

"I'm expecting as a lawyer in Canada to be on that case or to at least
hear about it," he added. "That's where we're headed."

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Alexander echoed Kitchen, telling Fox News Digital that "freedom of
expression in general and religion are under attack" in his country.

"There's absolutely no doubt that we're about to lose all the freedoms
we've taken for granted for way too long," he said.


Alexander noted that some young people his age are fearful about voicing
their opinion. He encouraged them "to speak up before it's too late."

"If you think whatever I'm dealing with is bad right now, just wait until
your freedom of belief and thought are outlawed," he said. "It's time to
speak up before it's too late. Our previous generation has failed to do so
and it's time that we pick up the torch and do it."


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