Faith McGregor is not Bill Whatcott

The National Post has this fascinating story about "colliding rights" today.

Faith is the woman who walked into a downtown Toronto store-front haircutting place a few weeks ago, and on being refused a haircut by the devout Muslim wielding the scissors that day, launched a human rights complaint against the barber and the shop.

According to the Post, Faith has since come around to respecting the right of a devout Muslim to refuse her a haircut, since his religion forbids contact with females that are not family.

But according to the Post, that puts her in the same league as Bill Whatcott. Bill is a long-time anti-gay activist based in Saskatchewan.

Bill is anti-gay and anti-abortion. That's shorthand for saying Bill is a Christian fundamentalist with too much time on his hands.

How does that make him "just like" a woman who wanted a haircut?

And since Faith has acknowledged the right of that particular hair-cutter to put his respect for his religious faith before her need for a haircut, and Bill Whatcott has in no way acknowledged that it might be alright for gays to marry or women to have abortions, I have no idea why the National Post would so scurrilously link these two stories in one article.