The tactic of printing up demeaning fliers on someone and distributing them in that person's neighbourhood has been ruled illegal in Quebec.

Follow excerpts from an article in today's Montreal Gazette 2000.10.13 which show a striking similarity to actions our pet cult has taken in the past to denigrate its opponents. Scienos take notice: this sort of thing won't be tolerated any more in Quebec!

Temple pays in no-sex fiasco George Kalogerakis, Gazette Justice reporter.

Two excommunicated members of the Nation of Islam have won a court victory against their congregation after it posted their faces on a flier that called them fornicators and liars. A Quebec judge is ordering the congregation to pay $6000 to the couple for hurting their reputations. The lawsuit revolves around the Nation's strict rules regarding religious law and marriage. Premarital sex is forbidden in the movement, an offshoot of one that began in black communities in the U.S. So when Rev. Lynwood Maye learned his right-hand man was doing just that with Pascale Nady, a new member of the congregation, he urged the two to stop and get married before starting again. Maye considered the conduct very serious considering Edwige Augustin was the enforcer of the temple's rules that he broke.

More than 150 people attended the spiritual ceremony a month later but the couple never went through with the required civil one.

When the minister found out he excommunicated the pair. A member of the congregation also sent out letters to Augustin's mother and Nady's employer saying the wedding was a hoax.

Then a flier with their photos was printed up, one that looks like a Wild West wanted poster. The dark headline reads BEWARE, and says the two have been excommunicated for fornication, fraud, lying, stealing and deception.

The flier was placed in a barber shop and other businesses frequented by congregation members. The couple then got more than 20 letters from other Nation of Islam members asking for their wedding gifts back.

The judge said the Nation of Islam went too far with the fliers, which contained false information. The congregation had argued it was only trying to inform members to stay away from the couple.

The judge ordered the congregation to give a written apology to the couple within 30 days.

Spbill The best way to reform CoS is to run it out.

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