Historic Photos Of The Emerson Avenger's Public Protest Against U*U Minister Rev. Ray Drennan's Anti-Catholic 'Wrong Message'. . .



Two historic photos from the fall of 2000 of Robin Edgar aka The Emerson Avenger publicly protesting against former minister of the Unitarian Church of Montreal Rev. Ray Drennan's anti-Catholic, and indeed more broadly anti-religious. . . ironically but appropriately headlined 'Wrong Message' Opinion editorial in the October 9, 2000 Montreal Gazette that intolerantly and offensively attacked the Roman Catholic state funeral of former Canadian Prime Minister, and genuinely liberal Roman Catholic, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, thus further publicly tarnishing the already significantly tarnished image of the so-called Unitarian Church of Montreal. . .
The Emerson Avenger, aka Robin Edgar, still displays these historic picket sign slogans, indeed these exact same picket signs. . . within the context of protesting against the stunningly hypocritical attempts by Montreal Unitarians to misuse and abuse the Canadian Criminal Code, and abrogated or otherwise inappropriate Montreal municipal bylaws, in their deeply misguided, but fortunately all but totally futile. . . efforts to completely censor and suppress Robin Edgar's ongoing peaceful public protest against various U*U injustices, abuses and hypocrisy by very cynically, and quite unjustifiably, attempting to criminalize his peaceful public protest and dissent in order to obtain a court injunction that would order an end to The Emerson Avenger's perfectly legitimate public protest against diverse Unitarian Universalist aka U*U. . . injustices, abuses and outrageous hypocrisy.
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Anonymous said…
The withdrawal of Mr. Edgar’s membership from the Unitarian Church of Montreal was not motivated by his religious beliefs, but by his disruptive and aggressive behavior towards the members of this congregation. His inappropriate behaviour has continued for more than ten years. Seven years ago he was brought before a Disruptive Behavior Committee, where over the next three years attempts were made to have him moderate his unacceptable behaviours. He would agree to proposed solutions and then go on as before. He was repeatedly warned that failure to comply with what he had agreed to do would result in serious consequences. Over this period, he was suspended from participation in Church life for six months. Unfortunately, upon his return his behaviour worsened , and he was suspended for an additional year. Again when he returned, his inappropriate behavior continued. Finally in November 1999, at a meeting of the full congregation, during which he spoke on his own behalf, a congregational vote was taken and his membership was revoked. This decade long process, during which sincere attempts were made by the congregation to negotiate a solution, ended when it became that he had no intention of ceasing his disruptive and aggressive behaviours. It should be noted that Reverend Ray Drennan did apologise, in person, on more than one occasion. However, this did not meet with Mr Edgar’s satisfaction. Mr. Edgar has redressed his grievances to whomever he has saw fit, be it the UAA, CUC, etc., and his complaint to the Quebec Human Rights Commission in 2002 was summarily dismissed as being without merit. Mr Edgar continues to picket the church in the futile belief that the Church will act. Reverend Drennan is no longer the minister as he left to follow his own life’s journey; and the church has simply moved on.
Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:43:00 pm
Robin Edgar said…
My point by point rebuttal of this U*U BS may be read here. I started a new thread in order to be able to create appropriate links and to add to, edit and refine my rebuttal where it is appropriate to do so.
Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:42:00 pm
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