Hacked in the culture war; A pastor's Web site is defaced during a verbal battle about gay sex-ed.

0 Comments | Report Newsmagazine, The, December, 2002 | by Shaidle, Kathy

Stephen Boissoin's e-mail just got hacked. Again. And the Christian Web site maintained by this evangelical minister was destroyed, too--replaced by a page featuring his own photo and the words, "Pastor Looking For Sexual Adventures." Reverend Boissoin recently hired an attorney, to handle a complaint against him at the Alberta Human Rights Commission and his own lawsuit against a University of Calgary professor.

Welcome to the culture war between gay activists and biblically faithful Christians. This particular skirmish started last June, when Rev. Boissoin wrote a letter to the editor of the Red Deer Advocate. Protesting "the homosexual machine that has been mercilessly gaining ground in our society since the 1960s," the Canadian Evangelical Christian Church...