As you’ll see in the blog we’ve linked to above explaining the story in detail, the exchange was as follows:
@fernhilldammit Thanks for this. As a public funder, we don’t condone discriminatory practices. Getting info. We’ll get back to you tmw.
— Ontario Trillium Fdn (@ONTrillium) October 30, 2014
The blog post which “exposes” Crisis Pregnancy Centers writes that they are “Christian slut-shaming organization[s]”, “fake clinic[s]” and “evil”. Apparently this kind of ‘expose’ was enough for the Ontario Trillium Foundation to rescind their $83,800 grant to an organization that offers women alternatives to abortion and counseling.
Doesn’t sound very evil to me; in fact in sounds rather compassionate, something we could do well with in our communities. I don’t see any discrimination, and yet, sadly, a public funding organization has bowed to the likes of an anonymous blogger and removed funding from a worthwhile organization. For more information, you can read a more thorough explanation here.
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