MAGA singer’s Canada gigs cancelled: Backlash over Sean Feucht’s anti-diversity views; organisers cite safety risks

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US singer Sean Feucht’s allow to carry a live performance on the York Redoubt National Historic Site in Halifax was cancelled this week by Parks Canada. Officials cited safety issues following public backlash in opposition to his anti-2SLGBTQ+, anti-women’s rights, and anti-diversity remarks on social media. Feucht, a non secular performer with hyperlinks to the MAGA motion, was scheduled to carry out on Wednesday. His permits for different occasions in Charlottetown (P.E.I.), Moncton (New Brunswick), and a few components of Quebec had been additionally revoked quickly after.

Feucht later carried out at a personal venue in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, hosted by pastors Christine and Neil Barr. They mentioned they confronted a whole lot of hate messages and a few protests however went forward with the present.“A lot of very hateful emails, texts to say that we were allowing a fascist on our property and that we should know better and the Christianity that we were showing was not love, it was hate and that we were racists. Some people even cursed ill health upon us,” Christine Barr mentioned. In response to criticism, Feucht posted,”Here’s the hard truth, If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn’t have said a thing. But to publicly profess deeply held Christian beliefs is to be labelled an extremist and to have free worship events classified as ‘public safety risks.'”