Remnant Recap

• Pastor under pressure: Derek Reimer, already on house arrest for protesting a drag event for kids, now risks jail for refusing to write a court-ordered apology.

• Conscience conflict: Reimer argues an apology would require admitting wrongdoing he says never happened and would violate his religious convictions.

• Legal climate: His case unfolds amid new Calgary bylaws restricting protests against LGBT events, intensifying concerns over free expression and religious liberty.

Canada is proving once again that peaceful Christian dissent is treated more harshly than half the crime happening on its streets. Pastor Derek Reimer is under a year of house arrest for protesting a drag queen story hour targeting children — and now he may face jail time for refusing to apologize for something he maintains he never did.

His so-called “offense” was posting a video of a librarian who asked him to leave. That’s it. The state wants his confession, not justice.

BREAKING: Pastor Derek Reimer arrested after refusing court-ordered apology

Reimer is taken away in handcuffs as his son screams in the background

Free speech is under attack in Canada. pic.twitter.com/uou5892SKh

— Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) December 4, 2025

Reimer’s stand is simple: conscience before coercion. And apparently, that’s now a jailable attitude in Canada.

LifeSiteNews reports:

A Canadian pastor who received one year’s house arrest for protesting a “drag queen story hour” event marketed to children at a public library in 2023 might soon face jail time after refusing to apologize to a local librarian.

Pastor Derek Reimer of Calgary, Alberta, is currently serving a one-year house arrest, which he had previously appealed, as reported by LifeSiteNews. Last Wednesday, he was in court to go over his sentence conditions.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, in 2023, Reimer’s Mission 7 Ministries lawyer Andrew MacKenzie filed an appeal to a sentence of one year’s house arrest and two years’ probation handed to the pastor before Christmas for protesting a “drag queen story hour” event targeting kids at Calgary’s Saddletown Library in the spring of 2023. Government lawyers had been seeking to sentence Reimer to jail time for his protest against the LGBT agenda.

Reimer told LifeSiteNews at the time of his house arrest sentencing that his trust in the Lord was keeping him strong despite the conditions placed upon him.

He also informed LifeSiteNews that he is only allowed to leave his house with the approval of his probation officer, but noted that when it comes to preaching, “God comes first.”

Pastor: ‘I will not apologize based on a fabricated narrative’

Reimer has asked Shannon Slater, who was the library manager, why the library was hosting such an event. After Slater did not answer, she told Reimer to leave, and he did.

However, Reimer had published his interaction with Slater on social media. He was ordered to write an apology letter to Slater, which was due at the end of last week. Should he fail to submit the letter, he could be jailed.

As of press time, it is not known if he has submitted the letter; however, based on his comments last week, it is unlikely he will.

Reimer told local media that for one to be “sorry,” one has to “admit fault” that “you’re wrong.”

He noted how this is admitting one made a “mistake” and that is what an “apology is.”

Reimer also noted how he told the court he went “into my freedom of conscience and a thorough study and my understanding of it, mixed with freedom of expression and religion,” and that “it explained and constituted that you have to express to the court your deeply held religious views of why this is a violation of your conscience and why you can’t do it.”

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