Canada: “Removal of gay altar servers is a church matter, parishioner contends”

Valerie MacDonald reports in Northumberland Today:

The 12 Cobourg Catholic parishioners and diocese bishop named in an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal complaint over an accusation of discrimination due to sexual orientation filed a response to the complaint by today’s deadline.

Essentially, the response filed with the Commission was that the issue is “not a human rights problem but a church matter,” Reg Ward of Cobourg, one of the 12 parishioners at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church, told Northumberland Today in an interview yesterday.