‘Men in lingerie’: Officials arrest pastor who refuses to apologize for beliefs on LGBT agenda
It seems that America’s northern neighbor is far from a freedom-loving, tolerant nation.
In fact, if you have the wrong beliefs, and refuse government demands that you apologize for them, you’ll be in a lot of trouble. Cuffed and arrested, in fact.
This is known because of the recent arrest of Pastor Derek Reimer, who refused to comply with a court order that he apologize for his own personal opinions on drag queens and the LGBT lifestyle choices people have made.
BREAKING: Pastor Derek Reimer arrested after refusing court-ordered apology
Reimer is taken away in handcuffs as his son screams in the background
Free speech is under attack in Canada. pic.twitter.com/uou5892SKh
— Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) December 4, 2025
He earlier was “convicted” of harassment for objecting to a drag queen event that focused on grooming children.
Canadian judge convicts pastor of “criminal harassment” for protesting drag queen events for kidshttps://t.co/v4HIovKBFt
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) August 29, 2024
Commenters on social media said:
“Shame on Canada.”
“Canada sounds like a fun place.”
And, “It’s embarrassing to be Canadian now.”
According to a Not the Bee report, apparently jailing people who don’t adopt the government’s religious beliefs is “what they do in Calgary.”
“Yup, the court ordered Pastor Derek Reimer to apologize for a 2023 incident where he ‘intimidated’ a librarian by protesting an event at the library where men in lingerie were reading to children. Keep in mind, he had already been on a year-long house arrest which was set to end next month when he refused to apologize. However, this breached his sentence conditions.”
According to the report, Reimer explained, “I went into my freedom of conscience and a thorough study and my understanding of it, mixed with freedom of expression and religion, it explained and constituted that you have to express to the court your deeply held religious views of why this is a violation of your conscience and why you can’t do it.
“I kept going, and she got up and left her own courtroom, and the whole gallery of supporters erupted into applause.”
The report noted Reimer had explained his own probation officer, Santander Parmer, was biased, after the court officer stunningly confessed he was working to “break down” Reimer’s beliefs and supplant them with government ideologies.