Iain Provan
Iain Provan is a professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C, and the author of Seeking What Is Right: The Old Testament and the Good Life (Baylor University Press, 2020).
Bio last updated June 30th, 2021.
Articles by Iain Provan
“Hey, Parents, Leave Your Kids Alone”
By Iain Provan
April 16, 2021
Iain Provan reports on data from a recent Nanos poll showing the substantial number of Canadians willing to criminalize parental guidance of children on sexuality and gender.
Yet a very substantial number of Canadians not only disapprove of parents discouraging sexual activity among minors, but are either certain that it should be illegal, or not yet sure what they think about this On the face of it, it appears that substantial numbers of Canadians do not really believe a word of it – at least insofar as it involves the rights of parents to raise their children as they think best, the rights of counsellors to counsel minors as they judge best, and the rights of the minors themselves to make choices about the kinds of counsellors they consult
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Define the Crime in Conversion Therapy
Iain Provan
January 13, 2021
Canadians must challenge Ottawa’s vague Bill C-6 that sped through the Commons justice committee while we were all distracted by COVID, Iain Provan writes.
Helpful or not, and legal for adults or not, Bill C-6 nevertheless specifies a penalty of two years in prison for anyone “who receives a financial or other material benefit … from the provision of conversion therapy,” or “knowingly promotes or advertises an offer to provide conversion therapy While ...