"If Jesus Returns, Kill Him Again"
says NDP Supporting Atheist Campaigner
A British Columbia man, David Bedford, has undertaken a personal
campaign against the presence Christianity in public life in
general and the Conservative Party of Canada in particular,
claiming that a vote for Stephen Harper's Conservatives is a vote
for "religious extremism."
By Hilary White
BURNABY, December 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A British Columbia
man, David Bedford, has undertaken a personal campaign against the
presence Christianity in public life in general and the
Conservative Party of Canada in particular, claiming that a vote
for Stephen Harper's Conservatives is a vote for "religious
extremism."
Claiming to be an NDP supporter, Bedford irritated police across
Canada last week by setting up websites with names similar to those
of local police units that automatically redirect visitors to the
NDP campaign website.
The CBC reported that the look-alike sites, such as
http://www.reginapolice.ca, http://www.saskatoonpolice.ca, and
http://www.edmontonpolice.ca, are now re-routed to Bedford's own
anti-Harper site, where he calls himself "Darwin" Bedford and
claims to be the "atheist messiah," and a "Spiritual Reality
Therapist."
Sgt. Kelly Dennison of the Winnipeg Police Service told the CBC,
"Anybody looking for the Winnipeg police service would think we're
endorsing the NDP." "Obviously, that's not the case," he said. A
spokesman for the Regina police said an enquiry is likely but
police did not specify if Bedford's anti-Christian campaign would
be investigated under the hate crimes statutes.
Bedford's single-page site warns, "If you vote for Stephen Harper
and the Conservatives you would be voting for religious extremists
with a hidden agenda."
NDP spokesman Ian Capstick at first told the CBC that Bedford was
an NDP supporter who was trying to help the party's chances in the
federal election. Capstick told the CBC that the party did not have
the power to make Bedford stop, but had not asked him to halt,
either.
Bedford's anti-Harper site includes a link to Atheists.net where he
includes his own agenda of "dereligionization" of the world. That
page links to another of Bedford's sites called, UndoJesus.org that
includes a point-form list of goals including "opposing Christian
influence and control within social context."
After communicating with police, the NDP is now distancing itself
from Bedford's anti-Christian campaign. Capstick told
LifeSiteNews.com that although the party has no power to stop his
campaign, they have asked him not to link to the NDP website.
"Mr. Bedford is not officially associated with the NDP in any way
shape or form. He directed his website to ours. He was asked two
days ago, due to the tone and content of some of the police
comments that he re-direct those sites," Capstick said.
When pressed, Capstick said that he himself had asked Bedford to
re-direct the sites. "We asked him to point his website to either
elections.ca or a charity of his choice," he told
LifeSiteNews.com.
See Bedford's anti-Harper website:
http://www.domainbaron.com/Stephen_Harper_warning....
Jesus
returns
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" 
