To All, Even when I was little I was aware of certain rights and how they were in jeopordy. I have always joked that I would move to Canada if the day came that America weent over the edge. Since I have become aware of all the concerning issues though, I realize Canada is ahead of the US in many socialistic issues. Here is an e-mail I got today about some Canadian issues. I hope its ok that I post it.. Let me know if its not...
Discriminatory discrimination: The `public good' depends on one's
philosophical viewpoint
The Edmonton Journal Wed 12 Apr 2000
Lorne Gunter
Last November, three students at the University of British Columbia wilfully
destroyed a pro-life display that had been erected, with permission, in an
outdoor common.
The first student approached the semi-circle of pamphlet-laden tables and,
one by one, pushed upright display panels to the ground. Then he swept
brochures off each table. Finally, he ``flipped the bird'' to a witnessing
video camera.
Other students gathered nearby patted him on the back and offered high-fives.
Another of the trio, one of two women, angrily overturned the bare tables.
Then, together, the three finally kicked and tore apart the sponsors'
banners. (All of this was captured on videotape, and may be viewed at
www.lifesite.net/ldn/1999/dec/991210.html#2.)
A slam-dunk prosecution, you would think. Yet last month, a Vancouver Crown
prosecutor refused to lay charges, claiming it would ``not be in the public
interest.''
On March 1, a similar pro-life display at Burnaby's Simon Fraser University
was also vandalized, this time while three Mounties and a handful of campus
security officers looked on.
Judith Scott ripped to shreds pamphlets containing graphic anti-abortion
messages and images.
According to The Report magazine, Scott claimed her actions constituted
support for ``a women's right to choose.'' (Her support for a woman's right
to choose, one can suppose, does not, however, extend to a woman's right to
choose to display pro-life brochures.)
Scott told The Report she agreed pro-lifers had the right to free expression,
but she also felt it was her right to destroy the property of people with
whom she disagreed. (Carried to its equitable conclusion, this latter right
might also cover pro-lifers' destruction of abortion clinics. But presumably
Ms. Scott never considered that.)
On March 8, International Women's Day, a mob ransacked the Mary Queen of the
World Cathedral. They burned homemade crosses, spray painted altars and walls
with blasphemous slogans and yelled profanities at elderly nuns. Flowerpots
were upset, panties thrown about at random, hymnals torn apart, condoms
strewn everywhere and tampons pasted to hallowed paintings and statues.
Numbering between seven and 20, the intruders, male and female, were
prevented from overturning the tabernacle only by a pair of quick-acting
American tourists.
The protesters were angry about the Roman Catholic church's opposition to
abortion and its refusal to ordain female priests. Unlike the UBC attack, in
this case the alleged culprits were charged. However, despite the widespread
damage done to one of Montreal's most historic shrines, the most serious
charge police could come up with was unlawful assembly, a very minor charge
indeed.
The professional body governing teacher certification in B.C., the B.C.
College of Teachers, has refused to approve a teaching degree program at the
private (and Christian) Trinity Western University in Langley because the
university prohibits students to engage in premarital sex, including
homosexuality. Accrediting a degree from an institution that indulges in such
``discriminatory practices,'' the college has ruled, would be ``contrary to
the public interest.'' (There's that phrase again.) The Supreme Court will
decide on the TWU case this year.
The Ontario Human Rights Commission in February demanded a Toronto printer
violate his faith and print brochures and letterhead for a gay rights
organization. The commission's B.C. counterpart in March ordered the mayor of
Kelowna to insert the word ``pride'' into his proclamation of ``gay day'' in
the city; not to, the commission decreed, ``was tantamount to a public
insult'' to gays and lesbians.
An Ontario court has banned the recitation of the Lord's Prayer before town
council meetings in the province. The University of Victoria student's
association has stripped a campus pro-life student group of its certification
and funding, not for misconduct, but over ideological differences. Por-life
and pro-family delegates to a recent UN conference were attacked by feminists
and insulted from the chair. Now, irony of ironies, the instigator of the
sacking of the UBC display, Erin Kaiser, has brought a human rights complaint
against the organizers of the exhibit, charging them with hate
speech for equating abortion with the Nazi extermination of the Jews.
And, of course, some time this week or next, the Ottawa Liberals will all but
eliminate legal recognition of heterosexual marriage from the statute books.
Yet it is the pro-family politicians and the Christian right activists who
are accused of extremism and intolerance, who allegedly desire to use the law
and government to impose their views and values on others, who are the threat
to our freedom and our pluralistic society.
All of these issues although they appear unrelated are in fact connected and part of a global godless agenda. Plato started the concept that the state control the development of children. The best way to collectivize the family is to hasten its destruction through social re-definition. Powerful special interest groups seek to institutionalize "alternative" models of family other than a man and a woman joined in holy wedlock. The UN's international year of the family in fact is a campaign to redefine the family. Thus, a same sex couple given custody of a child are "a family". Tolling up freedoms in totalitarian controls is a trap to put children on a par with adults. The UNthen says, children have the right to refuse to attend church of their parents, they have the choice and Right to join a cult or occult group and to obtain and view debasing pornographic filth, some of which will be available to them at school. Children will also have the right to privacy (no fear of public health or morals included here) and the right to protection from arbitrary interference. Was it not this right, "privacy" that was used by the court in Roe V. Wade to create the legal "right" to abortion? This UN child rights will allow children abortion without parental knowledge or consent and also allow children to obtain and use or be given contrceptives, or engage in homosexual promiscuity a sick perversion taught as normal in school. The only time prayer returns to the classroom is when a shooting takes place and the children who are the targets because of their faith pray while hiding under their desk. The U.S. is every bit as sick a society as Canada and the rest of the world. Now you know what global government will be like.
