B.C. MLAs Punked into Raising Gay Flag by Lying Sex Activist

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Feb 192014
 

Feb. 19, 2014 (RKRNews) — Clearly, BC’s government officials are too busy gushing and chumming with sex-activist-cum-MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert to learn the facts behind his “Nyet!” to Sochi, and his lies about the status of homosexuals in Russia.

“Instead,” says Kari Simpson, “Premier Clark, Attorney-General (and Justice Minister) Suzanne Anton, and Speaker of the House Linda Reid built him a media platform, right under the Legislature flagpole, with the Speaker of the House—decked out in full regalia—slapping him on the back and applauding as lie after lie slithered out.”

“It’s shameful, and a disgrace! These women are supposed to be role models? They’re goofs, gullible and silly—and apparently, will swallow anything,” says Simpson.

Simpson, president and CEO of the Internet public affairs site RoadKillRadio.com, has written to Spencer Chandra Herbert, challenging him to provide facts to support his serious accusations about Russia.  In her letter, she flatly calls Herbert a liar.

Simpson is armed with both a legal opinion about the law recently passed by the Russian Federation, and an English translation of it; and clearly, nothing in the new law makes “criminals” of Russian homosexuals.

Suzanne Anton, Attorney General for British Columbia, released this bizarre statement in an email to her, says Simpson:

“Equal rights for the LGBT community are fundamental human rights so we are pleased to join with colleagues from across the political spectrum and support the raising of the Pride Flag at the British Columbia Legislature. The flag will be raised after Question Period today at approximately at 3:00 pm.”

The politically-motivated flag-raising took place Feb. 13, 2014. “Clearly she is ill-informed, grossly naïve, and ripe for a good sex activist punking; moreover, she seems to have forgotten that the flags that fly at the Parlaiment Buildings represent the people of British Columbia, not a small minority of political activists with a fraudulant agenda,” says Simpson.

Simpson says it is time for British Columbia to have a constructive look at what is happening in schools, and also the colossal medical and social costs to taxpayers associated with the practice of homosexuality in British Columbia.

“The media and our elected officials have to grow up and begin to have an informed, open, logical, truthful and reasoned discussion about the issue,” she said.  “Most British Columbians would be horrified to see how their tax dollars are being used and abused, and even more horrified to learn how students—a captive audience for sex activists—are being subjected to politically-motivated propaganda that has life-changing, and often deadly, consequences.

In the meantime, says Simpson to the Premier and the Attorney General, “Take down the flag. Every day it flies, you are advertising to those of us who are informed that you are so punkable. You owe British Columbians a big apology for disgracing us in this way.”

Homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia in 1993, Simpson points out; and the recently-passed law only prohibits propaganda that promotes non-traditional sex from being disseminated to minor children.

“Russia is on the right track,” says Simpson. “They just say: ‘Don’t lie to the kids!’ That’s what we should say, too.”

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Simpson’s letter to Spencer Chandra Herbert click here

Legal Opinion on the Russian law here

English translation of the law in Russian to protect children here

 

RoadKill Radio: Charles Lugosi in Defense of Mary Wagner

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May 212013
 

After decades teaching constitutional law in the United States, Dr. Charles Lugosi is back practicing law in Canada, and has taken Mary Wagner as his client. Her case highlights some foundational issues in Canadian constitutional law. Kari Simpson and Ron Gray interview this distinguished legal scholar and pro-life activist (his doctoral dissertation posited that slavery and abortion are almost identical human rights violations) to learn how the Wagner case represents all Canadians’ free speech rights.

Duigon: What Makes People Stupid?

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Feb 252013
 

Some scientists fear that human intelligence is declining. Gee whiz, they noticed. They chalk it up to a genetic mutation, or fluoride in our drinking water, pesticides, processed food, whatever.

But they’ve only scratched the surface. Here are some of the other key factors behind the rise of idiocy.

One. Higher education makes you stupid. There is no way you can sit in a college classroom for seven years to get a degree in “human rights” or “women’s studies” and not turn into an imbecile. If you think the university doesn’t maim the human mind, you haven’t really listened to the Occupy Wall Street crowd.

Two. Public schooling makes you stupid. How could there be a sillier idea than to make your age-group peers—other kids who are as dumb as you are—the most important, the most influential people in your life, and conformity your goal in life? Not to mention such added frills as the gender coach, the cuddle puddle, “social studies,” and “math” lessons about the joys of redistributing wealth. As Paul Simon once put it, “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” Only the process starts in kindergarten, not in high school.

Three. Being governed by Democrats makes you stupid. Some would disagree, saying that being governed by Democrats is an effect of stupidity, not a cause. Who but complete dunderheads would ever choose to be governed by Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Bob Menendez, Charlie Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Hank Johnson, and on and on to the last drop of distilled brainlessness? Case in point: Dems propose “universal pre-school.” Why wait until kindergarten to start the stupefying process? The fact that the country can’t afford such a colossal waste of money is just icing on the cake. Anyhow, scientific studies prove that just listening to the above-mentioned individuals causes necrosis of the brain cells.

Republicans are not much better—but who can remember the last time Republicans governed anything? As soon as they take the oath of office, they start acting like Democrats.

Four. Movies about superheroes make you stupid. That goes for comic books and video games, too. If you still have any interest in costumed superheroes after celebrating your 12th birthday, it means your mind stopped growing at eleven.

The human mind needs nourishment, or it will not grow. It needs challenge, or it will not expand. It will be smothered, stultified, by movies about superheroes, with bodies flying all over the screen and dialogue like “Yeeowww!” and “Waaaah!”

Five. Reality TV makes you stupid. Watching anything about any Kardashian is like injecting your brain with carpet cleaner. If nothing else, it offers a totally unreal vision of reality. Whose reality looks like that stuff? The horror, the horror.

Once upon a time, when it cost real money to produce them, TV shows offered coherent story-lines and professional actors to bring the characters to life. If you don’t believe me, go to youtube and watch a few episodes of “The Rockford Files” or “Wagon Train.”

In truth, our whole popular culture is a vast toxic ocean of stupidity in which we, poor fish, must swim. No one is entirely immune to its effects. And it gets worse by the day.

For instance, this from the U.K. Independent, Feb. 8, 2013: “Academic takes swipe at David Attenborough wildlife documentaries for ignoring gay animals.” Can you believe it? A professor at the University of East Anglia, home of “Climategate,” says the documentaries “are perpetuating the notion that animal relationships are predominantly heterosexual.”

This is stupid beyond anything we ever dreamed was possible. (“And here are the gay salmon struggling up the rapids, so they can mate with other males and produce jack-bloody-nothing…” “And over here we have some lesbian fruit flies…” Gimme a break.) It comes spewing out of an institution incredibly described as a facility of higher education, out of the mouth of a registered “intellectual.” Has anything more asinine ever been said by anyone?

We need to start wondering about whether stupid humans have the survival skills and instincts necessary to perpetuate the species. Meanwhile, the Bible succinctly explains how we wound up on the Pinhead Parkway.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” —Proverbs 9:10

That’s where we missed the turn and just kept going, right down Stupid Street.

© 2013 Lee Duigon – All Rights Reserved

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Sun Media’s Bonokoski got it All Wrong on MPs’ Call for Homicide Investigation

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Feb 232013
 

by Faye Sonier (LifeSiteNews.com) – In Saturday’s Bushwhackers embarrass PM piece, Sun Media’s National Editorial Writer Mark Bonokoski proves that you don’t need facts to write an opinion article.

He labels three Members of Parliament, Maurice Vellacott, Leon Benoit and Wladyslaw Lizon “obviously stupid bushwhackers” for having asked the RCMP to investigate late-term abortions as homicides. Had they done so, I would have been the first to tell them that their efforts were a waste of time given the state of the law in Canada. Abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy in our fair country.

But that’s not what they did. The MPs asked the RCMP to investigate 491 cases of possible homicide. Between 2000 and 2009, 491 newborns survived attempted abortions and subsequently died after birth. We don’t know how they died, but they did. According to the Criminal Code, the same one Bonokoski alludes to reading, when human beings are born they are considered human beings in law. And when human beings are killed or neglected to death, we expect the police to investigate.

The MPs didn’t hide their motives or the language of their request. They clearly set out both in the letter they sent the RCMP, which was posted on Mr.  Vellacott’s website and recirculated widely. All Bonokoski had to do was read it.

Bonokoski then attempts to summarize the decision by which Supreme Court of Canada decriminalized abortion. Unfortunately, it appears as though he didn’t read that either.   The Court said the existing abortion legislation was unconstitutional, and Parliament was free to pass abortion legislation that would be. They even offered suggestions as to language for constitutionally acceptable legislation. Parliament just hasn’t done so.  There is, in fact, no constitutional right to abort your child in Canada. Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada even admits to that.

Lastly, he argued that since he doesn’t have a uterus, he cannot form an opinion on abortion and that this position isn’t a cop-out, but a fact. He’s wrong. It’s a total cop-out.

I’m not a woman who has suffered abuse, but I have an opinion on domestic abuse. I’m not a man, but I have an opinion on funding for prostate cancer research. I’m not a slave, but I have an opinion on human trafficking.  I’m not a soldier or live in a war zone, but I have an opinion on Canadian military engagement. I’m not an Aboriginal person, but I have an opinion on the Idle No More movement.

Perhaps he believes that he must have first-hand knowledge of every human experience before he can form an opinion, but this seems like an odd, if not impossible, position for a national media editor to take.  And I can assure him that the rest of the society doesn’t function that way.  We form opinions and vote accordingly, even though we haven’t walked a mile in every Canadian’s shoes.

Bonokoski, a senior media personality, formed and shared outrageous opinions on the actions of three MPs and Canadian abortion law seemingly without having read the MPs’ request to the RCMP, the relevant provisions of the Criminal Code or the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on abortion. Who says you need to do research and rely on facts to write an opinion piece?

Faye Sonier is Legal Counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. She blogs at ActivateCFPL.

Witnessing to Life is an Act of Charity: Archbishop

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Feb 092013
 

Statement by Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller on the 25th anniversary of R. v. Morgentaler

VANCOUVER (Jan. 28, 2013) — Twenty-five years ago, a legal decision was unleashed on Canada that has had an impact we can scarcely measure.

While some may celebrate, the sad truth is that the Supreme Court of Canada Morgentaler decision has cast a pall over Canada and led to the death of more than a million lives in the womb.

As followers of Christ, we are concerned about anything affecting human life and dignity. That is why we are involved in efforts to stem the tide of violence and war wherever they occur.

We work to alleviate poverty in all its forms in the Downtown Eastside.

We strive to implement more humane ways to handle the incarcerated, to promote fair treatment of immigrants and migrant workers, and to advance access to education.

We struggle to eliminate every form of unjust discrimination and to assure that people have the opportunity to work and that working conditions correspond to their dignity;

We reject unethical practices such as assisted suicide and euthanasia.

And we work to restore in law the right to life of the unborn threatened by abortion.

If we cannot secure the most fundamental right to life, then there is no basis for any other right at all. About this there is no doubt: from its conception, the child has the right to life.

Direct abortion and intentional euthanasia are grave contradictions of the dignity of human life and the respect due to God, our Creator.  Because the embryo should be treated as a person from conception, the pre-born child must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed like every other human being.

As Pope Benedict said, “When a society moves toward the denial or the suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man’s true good.  If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of a new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away.”

In this Year of Faith, when we are invited to evangelize and deepen our relationship with Christ and His Church, I note the growing sense of hope among those working to establish a culture of life. In this we are united in a common cause.

There appears to be more enthusiasm than ever in advancing the cause of life, and all of us need to ask the Lord for increased courage to speak the truth about the inherent dignity and sacredness of human life ever more clearly, but never with hatred or disrespect for persons.

To be pro-life, to defend the right to life, means to stand up for the truth, especially the truth about the God-given dignity and worth of every human being. We must be firmly convinced that this is the truth that sets people free (cf. Jn 8:32) and to proclaim it is an act of charity.

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Paul Schratz
Communications Director
Archdiocese of Vancouver    www.rcav.org
John Paul II Pastoral Centre
150 Robson St., Vancouver BC  V6B 2A7
T: 604-683-0281, ext. 262   F: 604-683-8117   E: communications@rcav.org

Peter Stockland: This is Ultra-Tolerance

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Feb 062013
 

From The Cardus Daily

In the gilded age of newspapers, the best understanding of the politics of the day came from reading Ann Landers or Dear Abby.

Puff-chested pontificators could empty their bloated egos into front-page stories about what a deputy minister said to a sub-committee. But the real temper of the times was in the two paragraphs of advice Ann and Abby gave their millions of readers.

When Ann Landers turned to promoting homosexual rights, for example, the gay lobby notched final victory. The times were not just a-changin’ any more. They were overthrown, carrying a solon of middle-class morality and comportment with them. Everything in the same-sex crusade has been a mopping up operation ever since.

Newspapers are a shredded simulacrum of what they once were, of course, yet their readers still—you may insert the word ‘inexplicably’ here if you wish—look to them for advice on matters great and small.

The Globe and Mail, true to its projection of itself as that much better than the slobs it serves, maintains a full fleet of advice columnists. Few are worth the candle. None are more readable than David Eddie, who writes a weekly advice column called Damage Control.

Even by his revealing standard of measuring the world entirely against his own foibles, one of Eddie’s recent columns could only be read with wonder. In it, he advised a concerned mother to be “ultra-tolerant” of the sado-masochistic lesbian who routinely walks her girlfriend on a dog’s leash in front of the neighborhood children.

Rather than upbraiding the offending party for flaunting her fetish in front of confused preschoolers, Eddie wrote, the worried mom should focus on ensuring her own four-year-old daughter grows up to understand that such public conduct is perfectly normal, natural, and acceptable.

If your daughter somehow discovers the truth [about what the S&M lesbians were really doing]—well, that’s no biggie, either, in the grand scheme. Just take her hand in yours, look into her eyes and say “Honey, it takes all kinds to make up this world.” Maybe it’ll help her grow up to be ultra-tolerant and hard to surprise.

When I read that paragraph, it provoked a memory from my own childhood of a couple getting carried away—really carried away—on a public beach where my family was spending the afternoon. My mother did not take time to write to the newspaper. She simply walked over and ordered—really ordered—them to stop. Immediately.

When the incontinent lout involved tried to talk back, she bellowed at him in a voice that carried to every ear on the beach: “You have corrupted the morals of every child on this beach. At least get up in the bushes where you belong. Are you a man or a dog?”

My mother was five-feet-two at her tallest. When she was in high school, she knocked a bully unconscious by hitting him over the head with a geography textbook to stop him picking on her older brother. When she lost her temper, it was like watching blind Fury take human form—and take over a human face. The lout, looking into it, slunk.

What struck me in contrasting that long ago episode with Eddie’s response was not the juxtaposition of strength against weakness but the difference in the vocabulary available then to my mother, an ordinary citizen, and now even to an advice columnist in Canada’s national newspaper.

Her language relied on a shared morality, yes. Much more importantly, it expressed a common code of expected public conduct even when that morality broke down. As a mother and as a citizen, she was protesting the corruption of the morals of children by forced exposure to sexual activity, true. But she was also infuriated by children having to witness human beings refusing to exercise minimal public self-restraint. She demanded, as she could, that a man on a beach differentiate himself from a dog on a lawn.

In Eddie’s case, what has replaced that vocabulary is a void. A professional writer now lacks the lexicon to articulate for an inquiring reader why it should be morally repulsive and socially intolerable for adult human beings to, publicly and in front of children, treat each other like animals or slaves.

No biggie. Avoid surprise: expect the worst. Expect, in other words, that human beings are simply slaves to animal passion and lack any capacity to consider first their public obligations to you or anyone else. This is ultra-tolerance. This is the true politics of the day.

You will find it, if you know how to look, in the writings of the bloviators who fill the front page with deputy ministers and sub-committees. But in its most vivid form, it’s tucked in the back, where readers still seek advice.

 

Multiple Homicides That Need to be Investigated

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Feb 032013
 

HOUSE OF COMMONS
CANADA
Maurice Vellacott, MP
Saskatoon-Wanuskewin

January 23, 2013

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson

RCMP National Headquarters
Headquarters Building
73 Leikin Drive
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2

Dear Commissioner Paulson,

Recent public reports have revealed the possibility of numerous breaches of the Criminal Code – to be specific, homicides – in Canada which need to be investigated.

These killings appear to have started out as attempted abortions, but the babies were born alive. At the blog, Run With Life, you will learn: “From 2000 to 2009 in Canada, there were 491 abortions, of 20 weeks gestation and greater, that resulted in live births. This means that the aborted child died after it was born. These abortions are coded as P96.4 or ‘Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus and newborn'” (http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2012/10/late-term-abortions-statistics-born.html).

The data used to discover the existence of these possible murders is from Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 102-0536, “Deaths by Cause, Chapter XVI, Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period” (http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1020536&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=-1&tabMode=dataTable&csid=).

According to the Criminal Code, a child is considered to be a human being and a person after proceeding fully from the mother’s womb, therefore, based on Section 223(2) of the Criminal Code, there should be 491 homicide investigations or prosecutions in connection with these deaths.

As you would know, Section 223(2) of the Criminal Code reads, “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.” That is to say, anyone who interferes with a pregnancy such that the child dies after it is born alive due to that interference is guilty of homicide.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has also reported 119 live birth abortions for the year 2010/2011 (http://run-with-life.blogspot.ca/2012/12/update-live-birth-abortions-on-rise-in.html), which is an extremely troubling increase from previous years.

This increase indicates that the killing of Canadian children may continue to grow if these apparent crimes are not investigated, and the perpetrators prosecuted.

These incidents appear to be homicides. Therefore a thorough police investigation is required, and I am formally requesting you to pursue that. I can make several experts on this matter available to you in the course of your investigation, should you so desire.

These incidents that need investigating took place across Canada, making this a national investigation. Furthermore, in many of Canada’s province’s, the RCMP is the provincial police force. It, therefore, is the best police force in Canada to exercise the leadership necessary to investigate these serious charges.

I look forward to your expeditious confirmation that you have commenced an investigation.

Yours sincerely,

Maurice Vellacott,
Member of Parliament,
Saskatoon-Wanuskwein                   

Leon Benoit,
Member of Parliament,
Vegreville-Wainwright

Wladyslaw Lizon,
Member of Parliament,
Mississauga East-Cooksville

Barbara Kay: Apples, Oranges and Aborted Babies

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Feb 022013
 

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?

bkay@videotron.ca

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Peggy Clores’ open letter to the World Health Organization

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Jan 272013
 

LIFESITENEWS.COM

This is an appeal to conscience, human decency, and humanity. Please confront the responsibility to read this through. I would appreciate a response explaining the World Health Organization’s counsel in the following matter.

I am apprised of your recent manual on the “best way to kill unborn babies”.

This is not the organization’s categorization yet terminology does not change objective reality.

Like Hitler, you sanitize language to cover up crimes against humanity. With the advancements made in ultrasound technology in this last 20 year period, the question of whether or not the “fetus” is a human being from the very first moment of conception has been radically resolved for persons of right functioning conscience. Yet, like Hitler, you hide the evidence from the world and from your heart.

The Third Reich, too, continually came up with new and more efficient ways to get the job done.

Apart from the radical issue of conscience and objective morality, it is incomprehensible, with all of the evidence of the demolition on every level to a woman’s health caused by abortion physically, mentally, and psychologically, that you would recklessly continue to recommend abortion as a health option in entire disregard for a woman’s health.

When is the madness going to end.

A “health” organization has a grave responsibility to offer only the best of health standards and counsel. Women deserve better. A “health” organization cannot justify crimes against humanity. This is beyond appalling and the extermination of human life has superceded Hitler’s crimes against humanity to incomprehensible proportions. 1.5 million lives ended annually each year in the United States alone since 1973.

WHO are you? What are you? What have you become?

In defense of all women and in memory of my grandparents exterminated in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, I urge you to live up to your responsibility to humanity and to your name.

I urge your hearts and minds to confront the atrocities and end the deadening and rationalizations of your consciences.

I urge you to confront the reality of your “health” counsel.

Nothing, absolutely nothing can justify your recommendations or your standards.

Schouten: Let’s Protect Society’s Truly Weakest Members

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Jan 262013
 

It has been said that the greatest way to measure a society is by the way it treats its weakest members.

Using this criterion as a thermometer, how does Canada fair? Are we a country in which the disenfranchised are taken advantage of? Do we have the social structures in place to care for the poor and downtrodden, those who can’t care for themselves or speak up in the face of injustice?

Judging by the increasing level of unrest in recent months, you could safely assume that as a country, we’re not doing very well; the mercury in the thermometer is steadily falling. The Idle No More movement, road and rail blockades, and pipeline protesters fill the front pages of newspapers with charges of one injustice after another.

It is a good thing that we have the ability to reflect on current practices and make adjustments as necessary; this is a virtue of a solid country. I am sure that there are ways to improve the lives of the First Nations, and there is certainly a plethora of ideas on how best to use our natural resources in an environmentally responsible manner that still allows for enough revenue to facilitate the many social programs Canada offers.

Whether or not these current issues should be regarded as injustices is perhaps debatable, but regardless of one’s position on them, the reality is that these are movements made up of people who can speak for themselves and address the way in which they are being treated.

This is quite different from another demographic who are not able to do so. Pre-born children of all ages face incredible injustices in Canada, more so than in any other country in the world. Since the injustice is for the most part invisible and the victims certainly can’t speak against it, it rarely makes the front page of the newspaper.

There is room for improvement in this area. Monday will mark 25 years of no legal protection for children at any stage of development in the womb. This gives us every reason to reflect on the status quo. Undoubtedly there will be some who celebrate this as a huge achievement for women’s rights. It’s unfortunate that many Canadians have accepted the dogma that states that abortion is solely a women’s rights issue. The reality is, it’s a human rights issue and Canada fails to measure up when it comes to its treatment of these weak members of the human family.

Statistics Canada reports that in 2009, there were more than 11,000 abortions after 13 weeks gestation. Interestingly, other western nations, some of which are more secular than ours, recognize in law the rights of pre-born children at 12 weeks gestation. Not only is Canada out of line with other democracies, we are also in contravention of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child, which states: “the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth.”

Just because the quandary posed by blockades, pipelines and reserves is difficult, it is not an excuse to neglect the real concerns expressed. So also, though the issue of legal protection for children in the womb is difficult, it should not be an excuse for inaction.

It’s time for Canada to start setting things right, to coax the mercury back up the proverbial thermometer. Yes, the politics are complicated and difficult, but that should never excuse a First World nation from doing everything it can to protect the truly weakest members of society.

Mike Schouten is the campaign director for weneedaLAW.ca, a national organization that advocates for federal abortion legislation in Canada.

by Mike Schouten, © Copyright The Calgary Herald

Arrested Canadian Pro-Lifers Write Christmas Letters from Jail

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Jan 122013
 

by Thaddeus Baklinski, LifeSiteNews.com

Canada’s pro-life heroines have each written Christmas letters to their beloved pro-life supporters. The pair has asked that their letter be passed on to all who have encouraged them to continue their fight for the lives of preborn children.

Both Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner remain in jail at the Vanier Centre for Women, in Milton, Ontario. They were arrested on separate occasions while attempting to counsel women against abortion, in the process of which they violated “bubble zone” laws that protect abortion clinics.

Both women have spent a considerable amount of time in jail for repeatedly violating the bubble zone laws.

John Bulsza, a friend of Linda, sent LifeSiteNews Linda’s letter with the hope that everyone who reads it may be prompted to write a card or letter of encouragement to Linda in return.

Linda’s letter:

Dear Pro-Life Friends

Greetings in Christ our King. I’m praying this finds you and yours well and blessed this Christmas. It’s another Christmas in jail, another opportunity to thank you for your love, letters and faithful prayers (especially for those offered for my mom). Thanks so much ☺!

This session completes a decade behind jail walls courtesy of Corrections Canada and the courts. The system intends to change for the better those it holds. I do believe prison time has bettered me but not by its demand for obeisance to flawed injunctions but rather by the time it permits me to live among the women here. Such time has been a living lesson about what prison life is possible of becoming – a place where we can remain free to love and be loved in return. It reminds me of Richard Lovelace’s poem that begins “Stonewalls do not a prison make…”; indeed love is liberating.

A highlight of recent years is having the company of Mary Wagner alongside. Her walk of faith and testimony to life is a beacon of hope to tired hearts. Mary is much sought out by the other girls here and she’s ever attentive to their physical and spiritual needs.

This year both Mary and I received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal for our pro-life work – medals that triggered the rancor of the liberal-left. Why so? Was it irrational for Stephen Woodworth to petition Parliament to look at who is in the womb and to enquire whether that someone requires a legal safe place to live? Evidently he believes we are created equal, not just born equal! Is it not rational to believe that human beings are living persons from conception and members of the species Homo sapiens? Medicine and science agree that the unborn are both living and members of the human family from the beginning. That being the case, the law should recognize that objective reality.

The Queen’s medals were not an untimely issue. They are a harbinger of a battle yet to be won and a pledge of the pro-life community to safeguard our unborn children until it can be said of their domain – freedom lives here.

Thank you again for your kind Christmas remembrance. May the joy of Christ’s coming fill your hearts and minds this holy season.

Christus regnat! Love in Our Christ King,
(Christ reigns!) Linda

Mary Wagner’s friend Leeda Crawford sent Mary’s letter from prison with a note from Mary’s mom. Jane Wagner said, “I thought that I would share the letter that Mary sent to us during this Christmas season. I found it uplifting and re-assuring to know that Mary is okay, even in jail, with the Love of God all around and about her.”

Mary’s letter:

Dec 28th, 2012
Feast of the Holy Innocents
Octave of Christmas

Dear ………loved ones……

Greetings to you during this season of the birth of the Holy Child, Our Saviour! What deep joy is ours when we take the time to contemplate the truth that God, Our Father in Heaven, Our Creator… “so loved the world that He sent His only Son, so that whoever believes in Him might not perish but receive everlasting life” (Jn 3,16)

In the quiet of my cell Christmas Eve, and in the early morning silence also, I was looking at an image- a beautiful representation of the Nativity Scene—just the Holy Family—and was filled with amazement as a fresh wave of wonder struck me at what God has done for us. We have grown up hearing about the gift of Jesus and many of the miracles He performed, teachings He gave, and divine wisdom He imparted; the suffering He bore for our sake, the rejection He experienced, the abandonment, Our God, not just a good man, the perfectly innocent One who called us into being out of His unfathomable Love, we have grown up on the receiving end of what has formed the civilization in which we live, and this celebration gives us the opportunity to reflect on the sheer gratuity of God and His goodness—if we are not too distracted by the busyness and commercial aspect.

By the time this reaches you, Christmas Day will be two or so weeks behind us, but the Church gives us an Octave of days for the Nativity, and a season that last well into January—(Our Lord’s Baptism), In fact, it used to be until Feb. 2nd!

So let’s linger by the Nativity Scene…God could have left us with the Ten Commandments—He could have left us with the Law to guide us, and as long as we kept it, we’d know that we are on the right track, “doing our duty” as children who obey. But, Our Father’s love was not satisfied to give us just the Law. He wanted to show us *just how much* He cares about us, so He chose to offer His only Son—first by living with and for us, then by dying and rising again for us. Our Father wanted to attract us to Himself by showing us that He Is love and that “we love because He loved us first” (1Jn4). Our God stooped down to show us that Love is always seeking to go right to the end; “No greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends” (Jn15)

It has been over four months since I was last arrested, and this makes it the longest I’ve been in jail at one time. For the most part, the milieu has been more peaceful than other times, though in December things became a little more tense on the range. A little calm descended Christmas day and it has lasted somewhat; but I have to learn to live with the tensions that one must expect in jail, and I must really seek God’s grace to live everything with God, and in trust that He gives the strength to guide us in everything that happens and in all the choices we are faced with.

Thankfully, the path is simple; I want to live for Christ who *is Life, so in every choice I’m faced with, I am called to make it in the knowledge that God, who is constantly loving me, is waiting for me to love Him in return. So when the answer does not seem clear, I ask Him to show me how to live Him and love Him in Truth. What is the pint of my life if I am not striving to love, and to go deepen in Love?

Thank God He is forgiving! Many times I fail to love, and He awaits my turning to Him and seeking His mercy, His forgiveness. Three is nothing Our good Lord will not forgive if we repent. “No sin is too big for God” as I’ve heard someone say, and I tell the women here, too, who need to hear it.

I pray that as this New Year unfolds, we would all grow more in the awareness of the profound gift we have received in the treasure of our Faith. If our Faith does not seem to be such a treasure, we can raise our hearts and minds in prayer, and ask the One who gave us life, to help to see the path that leads to the fullness of life, the path of Love that leads right to the end, to the good soil that accepts the grains of wheat that we are, where we die so that we can bear much fruit.

all my love and prayers,

Mary

Write Back!

Cards and letters may be sent to Linda and Mary at:

Vanier Center for Women
655 Martin Street, Box 1040,
Milton, Ontario
L9T 5E6, Canada

Here are some mailing guidelines because the prison mailing department reads everything sent to the inmates:

1. Don’t use stickers (address, return address, pro-life) on the envelope or card.

2. Don’t send any laminated cards, bookmarks, prayer cards, pro-life pamphlets. Non-laminated items will get to her.

3. Don’t ask direct questions about daily activity of the detention centre.

4. Put your address directly in the card or letter. (Sometimes the mail sorter keeps the envelope.)

5. If you would like to send a little monetary gift to Linda or Mary it must be a money order made out to “Linda Gibbons” or “Mary Wagner.” The detention centre will deposit the money directly to her account.

6. Many people add a variety of Christian reading material in their mailings, but a maximum of one or two pages of reading material or pamphlets may be sent. Pro-life material that shows the development of the baby, but not post-abortion photos, is permissible and often shared with other women in the prison. Books should not be sent as they will not be delivered.

“Human Rights” Kangaroo Courts Thrive on Oversensitive Complainants

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Dec 202012
 

RoadKill Radio News: It’s getting insane out there, folks. This week two separate stories involving Canada’s so-called “Human Rights” kangaroo courts hit the newspapers.

The National Post covered Saskatoon may face human rights complaint over ‘Merry Christmas’ messages on buses. It seems that if the slightest hint of a cultural and / or religious holiday “offends” a passerby – or merely makes a politically correct xenophobe cringe – they can run off to a Human Rights Commission to try to shut down the offending notion – and collect some money for their efforts, to boot! Would these same whiners be okay with losing all their religious-based paid holidays? No more days off for Christmas, Easter, or Thanksgiving? Should western culture ban Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, and even St. Valentine’s Day because a handful of cultural extremists want to re-write history?

A Saskatoon man named Ashu Solo claims that his right to be free from religion extends to even glancing upon the greeting “Merry Christmas”! We hate to think of the overwhelming indignity he’d feel if he ever entered a Hallmark card store!

Then there’s the Vancouver Sun story Human Rights Tribunal to hear complaint against Earls’ Albino Rhino beer, in which we read of how offending the word “albino” is to some albinos. The offending notion here is the pale ale served at Earl’s called the Albino Rhino. It’s named after the white rhinoceros. Lighten up, folks!

Should tall people go running to the Human Rights Tribunal because they see a can of Green Giant Peas in the store? Should black coffee be banned in deference to African-Canadians? Should the gay community cry over homo milk?

Mr. Spock said it best in The Wrath of Khan: “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” The overwhelming majority of common sense Canadians needs to be free from this sort of politically correct insanity that only placates the oversensitive few.

‘Pre-born children are human beings,’ says Mary Wagner

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Dec 132012
 

RoadKill Radio News, December 13, 2012

Mary Wagner sits in an Ontario prison, charged with “mischief” and “breach of probation”. For what? For talking to women, while giving them flowers and pamphlets in the reception area of an abortion mill.

Why did she do it? In the hope of giving an informed choice and practical support to mothers—and their babies.

In a ‘notice of constitutional question’, filed for her Nov. 22 by Brantford lawyer Dr. Charles Lugosi under the Courts of Justice Act, Mary Wagner asks the courts to acknowledge that Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as the nation’s unwritten constitution, both bestow dignity, equality, life, liberty and security of the person to every living human being in Canada—whether born or not yet born.

Her defense requires an interpretation of Section 37(1) of the Criminal Code by the courts, recognizing that living pre-born children are under the protection of the Charter; and that the words “any one” in Section 37 of the Criminal Code include all living human beings, at any age, whether born or not—regardless of their present legal status.

Mary also demands the right to exercise her constitutional freedoms of conscience, religion, expression, thought, belief, opinion, peaceful assembly and association—which would allow her to use conversational speech, pamphlets and flowers in a peaceful, non-violent manner to persuade pregnant mothers of unborn children not to choose abortion.

To win, she needs to have the courts do what Parliament has failed to do—declare Section 223(1) of the Criminal Code to be unconstitutional. Section 223(1) defines ‘human being’ as follows: “A child becomes a human being… When it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother…”

This definition, says Dr. Lugosi, Wagner’s lawyer, is “out of touch with biological reality; for human beings all commence life from the time of conception.”

The Criminal Code needs a definition of “human being” that conforms to modern biological science, practical reality and common sense, he says. The current exclusion of living, unborn human beings from the human family is a matter of politics, he asserts, and obstructs use of Section 37 of the Criminal Code in the defense of a living unborn human being who is about to be killed.

“It is also inconsistent with hundreds of years of Common Law, that gives legal rights to living unborn human beings, in matters such as inheritance.”

Mary Wagner says it is only right that living pre-born human beings, who are currently not recognized as persons in law, be accorded equality with born human beings, who are recognized as legal persons.

If Mary’s arguments are accepted by the Court, there is an irreconcilable collision between a woman’s right to choose death for her living pre-born child, and that child’s constitutional right to life; for if the pre-born child is recognized to be a human being, with the right to life, liberty and security of the person, the pregnant mother’s liberty must yield to the pre-born person’s right to continued life and security of the person. The liberty to inflict an assault ends where it conflicts with another human being’s right to be left alone; there, the security of the person from assault, and protection of life begin.

No date has yet been set for hearing Mary’s constitutional question.

Re: Bill C-279 (Special Rights for Transgendered Persons)

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Dec 092012
 

Dear MP Sweet

I wish to be very clear about this Bill C-279 which will provide ‘special’ rights for transgendered persons.

I personally am acquainted with a transgendered adult for whom I hold high regard and compassion.

He was born with Klinefelter’s syndrome which occurs in the womb prior to birth and according to reading I have done, exists in between 0.1 to 0.2% of the population. Klinefelters syndrome results in males having an extra ‘x’ chromosome and often a very low rate of male hormones among other complications. A very discouraging condition without a doubt. I hold no malice toward those who suffer from this condition.

Having said that, I am a supporter of equal rights, not special rights.

Special rights not only create classes of people with special sets of rights, special rights also are often used to trump one worldview over another when conflicting worldviews collide. This trumping is often used by various human rights commissions to prosecute those who do not subscribe to commission worldview.

In the case of special rights for transgendered persons, Ontario passed Bill – 33 which is now being used to defend biological males to enter female washrooms with the very real potential to permit the same to enter female change rooms and shower facilities. According to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, biological males may enter female washrooms and do so with out question as questioning one about their actions would be against their human right. This special right opens the doors to sexual predators and other sexual deviants.

The right of biological males to enter their washroom of choice trumps the right of our grandmothers, mother, sisters, wives, daughters and granddaughters to be and feel safe in an area where disrobing is necessary.

Enough said. I urge you to not only vote against Bill C-279, but also to inform other MP’s why you are doing so.

Thank you

Jim Enos
President

Hamilton Wentworth Family Action Council
www.hamiltonfamilyaction.org

RoadKill Radio: Why Are So Many Canadian Universities Suppressing Free Speech?

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Dec 042012
 

Oliver Capko joins Kari Simpson and Ron Gray to talk about the challenges of having to educate some university student groups about the Charter Protected Rights of individuals. Oliver is a first year agriculture student at Langley’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University that is giving a crash course in LAW 101 to the Kwantlen Student Association after they refused to give club status to his pro-life group! The outrage is that public money is used to fund these so-called institutions of higher learning! It is a tragic commentary that university students fail to understand that in Canada we have the right to have differing opinions and that Student Associations are prohibited from discriminating against some groups because they value the protection of human life! What are they teaching these students?

Sun News: A Clash of Rights

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Nov 212012
 

Ezra Levant hosts Chris Schafer of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, who explains the difference between fundamental rights and phony rights and the clash of rights between a woman and a Muslim barber. The issue – now before a Human Rights Tribunal in Toronto – is whether or not a Muslim barber must be forced to go against his own religion by touching a non-related woman patron.

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