US senator warns Canada's Bill C-9 threatens religious-text defence

Oklahoma state senator Shane Jett wrote to Canadian MPs on 2 October and spoke in Ottawa on 5 October, urging Canada to restore the religious-text defence that Bill C-9 removed from the Criminal Code. Critics say the law, passed in June, narrows the legal protection for good-faith teaching from Scripture on marriage and sexuality, though the claim of criminalising the Bible comes from opponents of the bill. The dispute shows how hate-speech law is becoming a point of pressure on exclusive Christian teaching, a pattern Jesus warned of in Matthew 24:9-12.