Ontario PC candidate Will Bouma held senior roles with religious group that claims ‘homosexuals’ will face God’s judgment on ‘day of wrath’
Ontario PC candidate Will Bouma headed a religious “youth and education committee” that published a magazine for kids that called on its young readers to reject the “homosexual lifestyle.”
Bouma, who previously served as Doug Ford’s parliamentary secretary and the assistant to the Finance Minister, sat on the executive of the Church’s “Free Reformed Missions International” from 2011 until 2017, just before he sought the Ontario PC nomination in Brantford–Brant.
According to the church’s own documents, Bouma also helped lead the Free Reformed Churches of North America’s “Youth and Education Committee” during this time.
Both organizations have troubling anti-LGBTQ associations.
For example, while Bouma held senior roles in the organization, it adopted a formal “position on homosexuality” that argued it was “evident in the destruction of Sodom” that “God condemns homosexuality.” The organization added that “God’s condemnation extends to all homosexual desires and acts” and that even “spontaneous attractions or perceived sexual orientation in any way contrary to God’s word are sinful.”
The policy further claimed LGBTQ people – as well as others who “practice fornication” or “adultery” – would face judgment on “the day of His wrath.”
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