The city of Montreal confirmed it plans to shut down a concert by a U.S.-based Christian musician who has been described as a “MAGA superstar,” saying the venue does not hold proper permits.
Its going to come down to whether this was a special ‘concert’ organized by Mr Feucht or whether the congregation, hearing that Mr Feucht was denied the chance to play at this previously planned venue, then invited to join them for their worship service as a guest musician.
It appears to be the latter as the press release is worded “protesters attempt to shut down Christian service attended by U.S. artist Sean Feucht” All it would take is for someone in the church leadership to testify, ‘Yes we invited him to come play at our service’ and its not a concert, he’s a guest musician at a worship service and you dont need a permit for that.
Either way the city is going to lose because they shut him down on a pretense but the real motivation was action by local activist groups, and that won’t fly in court as a legal reason to silence him. This is still Canada, we dont shut people down because some people dont like their message. We dont even shut down a public protests where the leader uses a bullhorn to scream “Death to Canada!” so Im pretty sure Mr Feucht’s worship songs to what sounds like a very small group of people, will pass the legal test.
Its going to come down to whether this was a special ‘concert’ organized by Mr Feucht or whether the congregation, hearing that Mr Feucht was denied the chance to play at this previously planned venue, then invited to join them for their worship service as a guest musician.
It appears to be the latter as the press release is worded “protesters attempt to shut down Christian service attended by U.S. artist Sean Feucht” All it would take is for someone in the church leadership to testify, ‘Yes we invited him to come play at our service’ and its not a concert, he’s a guest musician at a worship service and you dont need a permit for that.
Either way the city is going to lose because they shut him down on a pretense but the real motivation was action by local activist groups, and that won’t fly in court as a legal reason to silence him. This is still Canada, we dont shut people down because some people dont like their message. We dont even shut down a public protests where the leader uses a bullhorn to scream “Death to Canada!” so Im pretty sure Mr Feucht’s worship songs to what sounds like a very small group of people, will pass the legal test.