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   Religious Program Distorted Facts and Contained Abusive Comments about   
   Homosexuals, Says Canadian Broadcast Standards Council   
      
   Ottawa, December 8, 2010 - The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC)   
   today released its decision concerning the religious talk program Word TV   
   broadcast on CITS-TV (CTS – Crossroads Television Ontario).  The CBSC   
   concluded that the program violated provisions of the Canadian Association   
   of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code.   
      
   Word TV (previously called Word.ca) is a religious talk program hosted by   
   Charles McVety, who discusses political issues and current events from an   
   evangelical Christian perspective and sometimes has guests on the show.   
   The CBSC received complaints about the program’s treatment of different   
   issues, such as homosexuality, Islam, Haiti and euthanasia.  The   
   complainant felt that the program had included discriminatory comments on   
   the basis of sexual orientation, religion and mental disability.   
      
   The CBSC’s Ontario Regional Panel examined the complaints under the Human   
   Rights clauses of the CAB Code of Ethics and Equitable Portrayal Code,   
   which prohibit the broadcast of abusive or unduly discriminatory comment   
   about identifiable groups.  It also examined them under the Religious   
   Programming Clause of the CAB Code of Ethics, which prohibits attacks on   
   identifiable groups in such programming, as well as the Negative Portrayal   
   Clause of the CAB Equitable Portrayal Code.   
      
   With respect to the comments about homosexuality, the Panel explained that   
   the program was entitled to air objections to that practice generally, to   
   government funding of gay pride parades and to changes made to an Ontario   
   school curriculum that would include discussion of homosexuality.  When,   
   however, the program suggested that homosexuals prey on children, it   
   violated the Human Rights, Religious Programming and Negative Portrayal   
   Clauses.  In the Panel’s words, “McVety may not like homosexuality.  That   
   is his entitlement, but to leave the totally unsubstantiated impression   
   that gay and lesbian adults have a predilection toward young, underage   
   people is insidious and unacceptable.  In all, the Panel finds the McVety   
   mis-characterizations as excessive, inappropriate, disparaging, and   
   abusive [...].”  The Panel also found that the program violated the Full,   
   Fair and Proper Presentation Clause of the CAB Code of Ethics for   
   dramatically distorting certain facts.  For example, McVety claimed that   
   the Alberta and Ontario Human Rights Commissions have a 100% “conviction”   
   rate, which is entirely inaccurate.  He also stated that “speaking out”   
   against homosexuality is now a “crime” in Canada, which is also an   
   inaccurate statement regarding the hate speech provisions of the Criminal   
   Code.   
      
   McVety also discussed Islam and Muslims.  He talked about Biblical history   
   relating to conflicts between Muslims and Jews, the role of the Grand   
   Mufti during World War Two, the Fort Hood shootings, various terrorist   
   attacks, and the Iranian president’s statements about the development of   
   nuclear weapons.  The overall message was that Muslims could be a threat   
   to Christians and the Western world, but the Panel found no Code breaches   
   because there was repeatedly a distinction drawn between Islam and radical   
   Islam.   
      
   With respect to euthanasia, McVety and his guest objected to a bill that   
   would have legalized euthanasia that was then before the House of Commons.   
   They expressed their concern that the law would make it too easy for   
   doctors to convince people suffering from mental distress to agree to   
   assisted suicide.  The Panel considered that “it was entirely reasonable   
   that they hold and broadcast an opinion on a matter of such societal   
   importance, whatever their viewpoint.  Nor does the Panel consider that   
   any of that discussion in any way disparaged persons on account of their   
   disability.”   
      
   McVety also made some comments about Haiti and Haitians in the aftermath   
   of the devastating January 2010 earthquake.  He encouraged viewers to   
   donate to help Haitians in need, but also referred to the Satanism and the   
   “deal with the devil” that he believed Haitians had made in the past.  The   
   Panel again found no Code breaches, observing that “Those may or may not   
   be correct appreciations, but the Panel doubts that they are easily   
   assessable conclusions.”  The Panel concluded that “the expression of   
   those opinions was made in a positive context and did not reach the level   
   of abusive or unduly discriminatory comment based on religion, nationality   
   or ethnicity.”   
      
   Canada’s private broadcasters have themselves created industry standards   
   in the form of Codes on ethics, equitable portrayal, television violence   
   and journalistic independence by which they expect the members of their   
   profession will abide.  In 1990, they also created the CBSC, which is the   
   self-regulatory body with the responsibility of administering those   
   professional broadcast Codes and the pay television Codes, as well as the   
   Code dealing with journalistic ethics created by the RTNDA – Association   
   of Electronic Journalists in 1970.  More than 750 radio stations,   
   satellite radio services, television stations and specialty services from   
   across Canada are members of the Council.   
      
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