Kari Simpson and Ron Gray interview Linda Gray of Mission America. Ms. Gray has written a book – "Maybe He's Not Gay; Another View on Homosexuality" – that has received both high acclaim and vitriolic criticism. We'll let you guess who's not happy with the book – and they even admit to hating it without having read it… so much for fairness and open minds. To learn more, go to MissionAmerica.com, or click the picture below:
By Barbara Kay
Abortion is legal in Canada. Yeah, we get that. Hear it a lot. A lot. So is driving a car. But driving is a regulated activity, and so far none of the many driving regulations that help to save lives has ever plunged us down that slippery slope to denying people the right to buy a car.
And when I say “save lives” in this analogous way, I am not being coy. I am talking about recognized criminal activity. I am talking about a living human being that is outside the womb. If you cause injuries to a baby that causes it to die when delivered, or you actively kill a child that is alive when outside the womb, even if the umbilical cord is still attached, then according to the Criminal Code of Canada, you are committing homicide.
The MPs from Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario made the request on House of Commons letterhead to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson. In the letter, the MPs say abortions performed at 20 weeks gestation or later breach Section 223a of the Criminal Code, which says a person commits homicide when he causes injury to a child before or during its birth as a result of which the child dies after becoming a human being.
According to the Criminal Code, a child is a human being when it emerges completely from the womb — whether or not the umbilical cord has been severed, it is breathing on its own or has “independent circulation.” The MPs say the killing of Canadian children may continue to grow if they are not thoroughly investigated by police.
MPs from Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario have said they want late-term abortions that result in a live birth and then death to the baby investigated by the police as potential cases of homicide. Naturally the usual suspects are having their usual fit of the vapours at the very idea.
Between 2000-2009, the MPS allege, “there were 491 abortions, of 20 weeks gestation and greater that resulted in live births.” If that is the case – and the sources I have seen are persuasive in their credibility – then we are talking about an average of 54 such births a year.
That’s a few more than the average year’s tally of killings of women by their intimate partners. I got into a Twitter dispute with one of my colleagues yesterday. I asked him if it wasn’t worth one regulatory constraint on late-term abortions if it prevented 54 deaths of living babies a year. He adamantly rejected it: “apples and oranges” he called the comparison.
There is more than one kind of slippery slope. And right now we are on a slippery slope to complicity with criminality.
I reject his comparison. Life outside the womb is life. Unless of course you are one of those creepy new progressive types that call for the right to kill babies with defects up to 30 days outside the womb. I asked my friend: Suppose there were a regulation we could impose that would effectively end spousal homicide of women: Wouldn’t you be eager to see it implemented? He didn’t answer.
But I know what he means by apples and oranges. Apples are women – and their protection from harm is the driver of much anguished public debate. Oranges are live babies that are not really “alive” in the moral sense in his mind if the mother delivering it doesn’t want it.
All that tells me is that this otherwise bright friend is so programmed to believe in the slippery slope of abortion regulation that he can’t bring himself to countenance a single exception to our no-fetters situation. Which is odd, because every other nation in the world insists on certain regulations, and no democratic nation has outlawed abortion in general.
This refusal to stare down the hands-off fetishists is getting downright silly. Worse, it is permitting criminal activity in the name of social harmony. Well, I don’t feel particularly harmonious about those 491 live births and I am betting there are plenty of other Canadians who believe in abortion as a general right, but are also sickened by late-term abortions and would be perfectly happy to see that aspect of the practice regulated.
There is more than one kind of slippery slope. And right now we are on a slippery slope to complicity with criminality. Is this really what most Canadians want, or are they just too cowed by the totalitarian abortion lobby to speak up?
National Post
Ron Gray recounts the turning point in the happy working relationship that had existed between Rafe Mair and Kari Simpson for a decade, when suddenly Mair shifted gears and began resorting to lies and public defamation to promote his political cause.
No one can say for sure what sank the Titanic of BC broadcasting, the Dynamic Duo of Rafe Mair and Kari Simpson; but we can observe some of the events that ran the ship aground.
Remember that Kari’s appearances on Rafe Mair’s radio talk show were only a small part of her work in the 1990s; the vast majority of her time was spent running the Citizens’ Research Institute, defending families before provincial bureaucrats, and speaking at public rallies.
Some of those rallies got so rambunctious, the managers of the venues where Kari spoke required her to hire police. It wasn’t that Kari riled up or incited the crowds; but the International Socialists—who had made death threats against Kari and her family—were always a danger to the public peace. So Kari complied, and hired off-duty cops to keep the peace.
One of the families Kari defended had expressed concern that their son’s Kindergarten and Grade One teacher, one James Chamberlain, was violating the provincial Education Ministry’s requirement that parents were to be advised if sensitive matters, such as sexual orientation, were to be discussed in the classroom. These particular parents felt that sexual orientation was no appropriate for Kindergarten and Grade One students. Furthermore, they were Christians who objected to the fact that Chamberlain required students to, in his words, “leave their religious beliefs at the classroom door.”
Chamberlain was an outspoken homosexual activist, and he brought his ideas into the classroom, to present them to his 5- and 6-year-old pupils. Kari agreed with the parents who wanted to pull their son out of range of his indoctrination.
Chamberlain was also the teacher at the centre of a high-profile cause celebre called the “Surrey Books Case”, in which he introduced three books into his classroom—books that extolled homosexual households as “normal”.
Let me digress here to add a word of personal witness: in 2009, I attended a “conference” to teach teachers how to make their classrooms more ‘gay’-friendly. James Chamberlain was one of the teachers’ instructors. In the session I participated in, Chamberlain explained to the teachers his theory of how the word “faggot” came to be applied to homosexual men. It’s a wild fantasy!
In the Middle Ages, said Chamberlain, when witches were being burned at the stake, the bodies of homosexual men were used as kindling to start the fire.
If you consult the proprietor of a crematorium, you’ll learn that the human body, which is more than 70% water, is very, very hard to burn; crematoria have to use natural gas or oil to generate a temperature of about 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
In short: you cannot use corpses as kindling to start a fire; but in James Chamberlain’s fantasy world, that illusion has become a “fact” he can teach. You have to wonder what he teachers Grade One and Kindergarten students, once he has them under his autonomous control?!?
An important distinction has to be made here: Kari Simpson was never involved in the “Surrey Books” Case; but she did help parents defend their decision to take their son out of Chamberlain’s class. However, Rafe Mair, in several broadcasts, accused Kari of not only being involved in the book case, but insisted that her motivation for helping the parents withdraw their son was—not that the teachers was violating the parents rights; but that the teacher was gay.
That’s ironic, because Kari is on record as saying that the books should be allowed in schools, as long as parents’ right to be informed was respected. But Rafe continued to confuse the issues, and—astonishingly—later on the courts would compound the error by citing as “fact” the very accusation that was at issue in a defamation lawsuit!
Rafe was wrong; Kari wrote to him and to the radio station to inform them that he was wrong. But Rafe’s tirades continued—and they worsened. Eventually, he was comparing Kari to skin-heads, to the Ku Klux Klan, to Nazis—even to Adolf Hitler!
His campaign of hate went on for two years, comprising more than 40 editorials. By re-using material to get maximum mileage out of his writing, Rafe broadcast them, ran them in print, and posted them on various Internet blogs.
Finally, to stop the stream of hatred and defamation, Kari sued.
And just wait until you hear how Canada’s so-called “justice” system handled that case! But we’ll get into that next week.
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The “robocall scandal” may be important—time and facts will tell—but it’s certainly not the most important danger to our democracy. Protecting the individual citizen’s right to vote matters… but protecting the integrity of that vote, itself, is far more important.
Elections Canada works hard—maybe too hard—to ensure that everyone gets to cast a ballot; but it doesn’t seem to value the integrity of that ballot nearly as much.
Here are some examples:
Elections Canada sends agents to shelters and under bridges to sign up homeless voters; but it’s not nearly as diligent about ensuring that the person who casts the ballot is qualified. You don’t really need to prove your identity; you can vote by mail, for example. You can vote on the basis of another registered voter vouching that you are who you say you are. The possibilities for fraudulent voting are enormous.
And to go back to those homeless voters for a moment: how many homeless people actually care about being able to vote? How many would be happy to swap their registration cards to an agent of one of the many Left-wing “social justice” campaigns for a mickey of rye? Yes, such an exchange would be illegal; but who is watching? Can Elections Canada guarantee it doesn’t happen?
Voter Identification Cards are often left in bundles in the lobby of apartment buildings, rather than being delivered into individual mailboxes; that’s manna from heaven for any irresponsible and overzealous campaign workers; they can do more with a few of those VICs than with thousands of robo-calls.
In their admirable zeal to ensure that they don’t deny a ballot to anyone who’s qualified to vote, Elections Canada has lowered the standards for verifying that eligibility. And I think they’ve lowered the standards too far.
I’m Ron Gray, and that’s how I see it.
[Ok folks here’s the deal, we the RKR staffers do have fun, and there is no end to the little email exchanges between us during the week. Kari sent this out hours before the “Rapture” was to take place. Those of us who received it enjoyed a good laugh and thought you would too. We took a vote, vetoed Kari (actually we didn’t tell her!) and now make it available to you! Have fun!]
Hey! Today’s Vancouver Sun had newsworthy information! I’d heard rumblings, previous to the story “Apocalypse Almost”, but never took the time – until this morning – to learn the details! OK guys, here are my personal top ten reasons why I will not be raptured today.
10. Yes, I am a Christian, but I fear not always a very good one. As you are aware, I like red wine, poker, and perhaps use (ahem!) colourful language (albeit with a California twang) too often. Therefore I fear God is not done with me; I still have way too much to learn. So I will be left behind.
9. Saturday is housecleaning day here on LadyBug Farm. I never go away for extended periods of time without cleaning my house!
8. The horses will still need to eat after my departure/rapture. With only 6 more days of hay left in the barn, and nobody I know who can afford to take on the feed bill due to over-taxation, it would be irresponsible of me to be raptured, under this circumstance.
7. It would be cruel of God to deny me the entertainment of watching Mr Oh-Oh – a.k.a. Jack Layton – trying to morph into some form of statesman. Please God, don’t take me today! I love to laugh! My station on Earth is a front row seat!
6. I need to get a picture of the Canucks winning the Stanley Cup. That will happen shortly, so can we put off the Rapture for a month or two?
5. I have a secret crush on Johnny Depp when he dresses up as Captain Jack Sparrow. I haven’t had time yet to see the latest “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. Heaven just wouldn’t be the same without this memory!
4. My campaign to have Beverley McLachlin—the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada—resign or removed is about to begin. I believe God wants to see Canadians made happy, and will therefore give me the time to make this happen.
3. Harper got his majority. That means I will be here for at least 4 or 5 years! (Depending on whether the Tories honor their “fixed election date” legislation.)
2. I am enjoying the perks of being the family matriarch, now that my four amazing kids are all grown and have money to buy me Mother’s Day gifts, and all the other gifts required by the commercialized gift-giving marketing gurus. Being raptured today would end this, and that just doesn’t seem right.
1. Tuesday I have plans to attend the rally of the Burnaby parents who are currently whipping the illogic out of their local antidemocratic, pro-gay, propaganda-loving School Board Trustees. This is an important issue—and God knows the trustees won’t be raptured!