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and I've started numerous discussions on Belanger and/or his followers.
The first core belief is that all laws are to be derived from the 1611 version of the King James bible. Belanger claims that he is bound to follow the King James and nothing else. This requirement is laid out in Deuteronomy 12:32, King James Version (KJV);
"What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it."
Belanger interprets that to means that God's commands in the bible are the laws that govern us and must be obeyed as they are written without making any changes to them. Since God specifically ordered us not to add to them any man-made laws not in the bible are invalid and must be ignored. As an example he would be in violation of God's will if he paid income tax since the Canadian Income Tax Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.) is not in the King James. Nor are the various provincial Motor Vehicle Acts and their licensing regulations.
However, to be fair, Belanger isn't some rigid marionette unwilling to show any flexibility at all in rejecting man-made laws. Far from it, he sees the wisdom in some and embraces them with enthusiasm! For years he collected AISH (Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped) from the province of Alberta. He was extremely upset when he was cut off and has ranted and raved about the loss ever since, demanding it back as an entitlement. Yet AISH is a creation of statute, the Assured Income For The Severely Handicapped Act, and is not in the King James bible. However Belanger is apparently willing to look past the King James to the greater good when a situation warrants it.
Fortunately, for the moment, the government is not attacking Deuteronomy 12:32. They have their sights instead on this provision of the Criminal Code;
Belanger loves this one. It means, at least to him, that the Criminal Code specifically allows ministers exemption from all laws when they are performing their ministrations because it's a criminal offense to harass them while they are doing their Christian duties. Get picked up on a traffic offense? You're a minister on your way to perform divine service and can't be arrested. Minister Catharine tried that one when she was charged for driving without license or insurance while she was attending to her flock in her Ecclesiastical Pursuit Chariot (also known as a 1994 Mercury Sable).176 (1) Every one who
(a) by threats or force, unlawfully obstructs or prevents or endeavours to obstruct or prevent a clergyman or minister from celebrating divine service or performing any other function in connection with his calling, or
(b) knowing that a clergyman or minister is about to perform, is on his way to perform or is returning from the performance of any of the duties or functions mentioned in paragraph (a)
(i) assaults or offers any violence to him, or
(ii) arrests him on a civil process, or under the pretence of executing a civil process,
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
(2) Every one who wilfully disturbs or interrupts an assemblage of persons met for religious worship or for a moral, social or benevolent purpose is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
(3) Every one who, at or near a meeting referred to in subsection (2), wilfully does anything that disturbs the order or solemnity of the meeting is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/03/20/w ... ht-tickets
Again, to be fair, she may have been relying on Deuteronomy 12:32 instead. We'll never know because she didn't show up for trial.According to court-filed documents, Flamond wants a judge to quash the tickets based on religious beliefs.
She argues in her Feb. 27 notice of constitutional issue that the provincial civil laws do not apply to her because she is a Christian minister who is only bound by God, the Queen of England and the Constitution Act of 1982.
However Criminal Code s.176 was in full swing when Belanger prohibited the bank from foreclosing on the Volk's house when they stopped paying their mortgage. He made them instant ministers in his church then claimed that their house could not be foreclosed or even entered by the bank because it was protected under s.176. It was their church and they were performing divine services and going about their ecclesiastic duties in it. And it worked! Their house was saved from foreclosure foreclosed. But that wasn't Belanger's fault. S.176 was the perfect solution to their problems but the OPPT gang got involved and led the Volks astray.
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But the government, terrified of the powers that s.176 bestowed on Belanger, is taking the cowards way out and is planning to repeal it! The government gives some bullshit reason about it being discriminatory as the basis for removing it. Some nonsense about how it only protects Christian ministers but not imams or rabbis.
http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/ca ... n-raybould
The government says that this provision is outdated. Outdated! How is protecting a minister of the Church while she uses her ecclesiastic pursuit chariot in her daily toil of ministering to her flock outdated? So, to hide this gross violation of clergymen's rights, they've buried in legislation eliminating criminal provisions against fake witchcraft and duelling.
I'll keep an eye on Belanger's Youtube site to see how he reacts to this vicious ungodly attack on his church.