Statement on Bill C-9

The Bible is not hate literature. It is a love letter. The movement of Scripture, from creation to fall to redemption to consummation, is the story of a God who refuses to abandon the creatures he has made. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him” (John 3:16–17). That is the point of the entire Bible. God made the world. God loves the world. God entered the world to rescue it. If that is hatred, then the word has lost all meaning.