What about discrimination against Christians?

Re: RE: Balfour House (Sept. 26)

I wish I could say I was surprised at the reported opposition, both from the community and from some City of Hamilton councillors, to a proposal by Cardus to lease and renovate the historic Balfour House.

The opposition is supposedly because some of the content on the Cardus website (cardus.ca) could be considered homophobic or Islamophobic.

In the interests of informed input, I did some limited research on cardus.ca, browsing the headlines on discussion pages and reading several articles that caught my eye. The closest I could find to homophobic content was a piece from 2017 discussing efforts to block Jordan Peterson from a speaking event.

What I did find was that the contributions are written almost wholly from a Christian perspective. Many of them were about personal growth through Christian belief, or how their Christian perspective led the authors to participate in trying to improve their communities through, for example, helping the less fortunate.

The inescapable conclusion, for me, is that the objections are about the Christian origins of Cardus itself.

It would be instructive if, before delivering a verdict on this proposal, just one councillor would ask the objectors to provide specifics about which pieces they find objectionable and details for the objections.

If they can’t or won’t do that, then it is clearly just an indication of discrimination against Christians. Dave de Jong, Burlington