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A British Columbia teacher, who applied for a religious exemption from his union, saying membership and paying dues is “irreconcilable with my faith,” has lost an application for appeal of a labour relations board decision, where he argued trade unions are “a major part of the grand Marxist agenda” and that “Marxism is diametrically opposed to Christianity.”

Robert Alan Bogunovic applied for a religious exemption from his union, hoping instead to give his dues to a charity. While he had been a member since 1998, he became particularly interested in the 2016 election in the United States, and had a “red pill” moment — a political awakening, usually an anti-leftist one — after watching YouTube bloggers, reading the work of writers such as Jordan Peterson and Mark Steyn and following those who warned about the menace of trade unions in religious terms.

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“My present conviction is that Marxism is a major player in a spiritual war that has been fought for centuries, a war that pits truth against lies, good against evil, State power against freedom, families, and the Church, and that trade unions are on the side of those seeking to destroy that which Christians hold to be most vital (freedom, families, and the Church),” said Bogunovic in his application to leave the union.