Hellfire and damnation on same-sex marriage ignores truth, equality
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My reply belowJim McNulty
The Province
Friday, July 18, 2003Canadian society is about to enter the depravities of hell, we're told, if the definition of marriage is changed to include same-sex couples.
What a juicy axis of evil for religious demagogues and pandering far-right politicians to sink their choppers into. We're on the road to perdition, and Tom Hanks isn't even around to sign autographs. It's even bleaker in the Okanagan. The good folks in wineland will pay for the privilege of travelling a toll road to perdition, courtesy Gordon Campbell. Oh! Those damned homosexuals and their civil rights. Those damned equality provisions in the Charter of Rights. Those damned politicians who passed the charter, and those damned judges with the temerity to rule that some existing laws don't meet the charter test. Oh, oh, oh! No, no, no! Hellfire and damnation! Depravity and perversion! The serpent is upon us, the blackest crows cackle, the smell of sulphur is in the air.
Now it is true that the smell of sulphur sometimes wafts across Vancouver, but the source has nothing to do with the federal Liberals' -- make that Beelzebub's -- plan to allow same-sex marriage.
The occasional stink comes from a big pile of sulphur on the harbour's north shore, just downwind from the Lion's Gate Bridge.
That is the rational, logical explanation -- something in short supply among the anti-gay-marriage crowd. Take Alliance Leader Stephen Harper, for example, or his fearmongering justice critic Vic Toews.
At a barbecue this week in Edmonton, Harper claimed the definition of marriage "is about moral views, I mean it is about social values and not, as some have been saying, a matter of human rights or equality."
How convenient to drop rights and equality from marriage and make it only a moral matter, a social value. To be determined no doubt by religious demagogues and pandering far-right politicians.
In Toews mind, the Liberals "have undermined democracy in this country by allowing the courts to take full control of social policy in Canada."
Harper also prattles on about allowing "a handful of tenured judges to create a situation where churches, synagogues, mosques and temples can be compelled to perform marriages that violate their own moral codes."
Oh! What rubbish. Oh! What a pillar of Alliance salt.
Appeal court judges in B.C., Ontario and Quebec merely said the restriction against same-sex marriage violates the charter. And the charter, remember, was passed in the House of Commons by politicians.
If the charter's the problem, why doesn't Harper come out and say it should be scrapped? Make it an election platform: Kill the Charter of Rights -- and then watch the Alliance get killed on election night.
And why is Harper saying religions will be "compelled" to go along when the Liberals seek the Supreme Court of Canada's backing that religious-freedom guarantees in the Constitution protect religious officials who decline to approve same-sex marriages?
Oh! Those damned facts get in the way of a good hellfire rant, don't they?
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From: JAG
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 3:10 PM
Subject: Hellfire and damnation on same-sex marriage ignores truth, equalityRe.: Your article about "Hellfire and damnation on same-sex marriage ignores truth, equality."
Dear Mr. McNulty:
I have to congratulate you on two accounts.
First for having earned the dubious title of "Mouth Piece" for the socialists of Chairman Jean.
Second, for your obvious ability to use the English language with such mastery, as to make the untruth become palatable for the ignorant masses.
Needless to say, this missive will not see the light of day, at least in its entirety, in the tradition of the FIBeral spinning you are displaying in your article.
If History had been your best school subject, you would know that the depravity you mock so skilfully, has been the hallmark of the decadence of every empire since the beginning of civilization, a fact you, and the proponents of the lies propagated by a treasonous bunch in Parliament, conveniently omit.
No, I'm not a religious zealot, not even a "good" Christian. I'm just a normal mortal with many of the flaws that come with the title, but I don't lie to defend my position.
Let's look at the facts:
Every major religion of the world, condemns homosexuality as a sin. In other words, all the true believers in one God (a figure in the billions), believe that homosexuality is not an acceptable lifestyle.
Then of course, there's this silly thing that some people call nature, which made it so as to coupling being a thing between a male and a female of the same species, getting together to procreate. But what the heck! Who cares about the incompatibility of a square peg and a round hole, or a silly thing as nature and the evolution of the species?
I will not talk about hell which doesn't seem to concern you one bit but, don't you think that the believes of billions of people in the world, are a good enough reason for governments and the judiciary to respect their wishes?
Aside from that, our current gutless (some will even say useless) FIBeral government, has relinquished its duties and allow the un-elected judges (appointed without any viable screening process, according to their previous services to the party in government at the time, and with NO accountability whatsoever to the sovereign people of Canada), to make legislation and to "read" into the famous Charter of Rights and Freedoms, things that were deliberately left out as indefinable at the time the Charter was IMPOSED on the people of Canada, without prior consultation. That is, the members of Parliament, voted against including homosexuality in the Charter and therefore, the judges in question are in contempt of Parliament!
What a silly thing to say that the people of Canada had the right to know of the potential (now real) horrendous consequences the Charter would bring to the decent people of this country! Who the heck are the citizens to dare voice their opinions, when the incompetent government of the day, knows best what is good for us peasants?
Those damned "equality provisions" in the Charter you say. What a spinning technique! The worse part is that it works with the uninformed, which is why the FIBerals use it with such a success.
Of course, the fact that the legal gender acquired before birth, which determines whether a person is male or female, imparts already equality by that virtue to all human beings, has nothing to do with the matter! Homosexuals have to have extra rights and, if that means that the overwhelming majority's rights are trampled-on in the process, too bad!
Most of us don't have any problem with the behaviour of the homosexuals in the privacy of their homes, provided it takes place between consenting adults, neither of them under duress. In fact, the great majority of homosexuals are saying they don't want the controversy and are happy with the status quo.
Does this mean that any of us would like to stone them to death or harm them in anyway? Not at all. Does it mean that they should be cast aside or discriminated upon? Of course not! They are human beings like we all are.
Should there be a legal way for society, to acknowledge the "union" of homosexuals, to assure the passing-on of wealth and other legal matters? Perhaps. But leave marriage the way it is and has always been, for it has worked very well for thousands of years. This continent was built on Judeo-Christian principles and any rejection of such principles is a dangerous proposition. Must we adapt somewhat to new realities? Perhaps, but not at the expense of the overwhelming majority, just to accommodate a tiny minority of vociferous homosexuals, wishing to destroy our way of life. Isn't it strange that a tiny 0.5% of the total population, which are the likes of Svend Robinson, are able to change society at the expense of 95% of us?
As far as religion is concerned, whether you adhere to it or not it is your choice and none of us has the right to interfere with that choice. But let me tell you, the same way that I am prepared to die to protect your rights, I'm prepared to die to protect mine and, I'm not about to tolerate the continuous efforts of a godless government to impose its secular fundamentalism on me.
The difference sir, is that I do not mock the sincere believes of others the way you do, I have respect for all points of view, whether I agree with them or not.
Is the Charter to be repealed? Probably not per se. But you must admit that the egotistic way it was imposed on us, without consultation and with an almost impossible practicality to modify it if necessary (and it is obviously necessary), was as stupid as the egos involved and the desire for a "legacy" rather than an interest of solving the problems of our federation.
As per your comment of why the religions will be compelled to eventually perform marriages against their will, I will paraphrase one of your possible idols by saying: just watch them! There are already movements in the U.S. and Canada, ready for a push to accept paedophilia as an alternative lifestyle! This is but the beginning of the fight.
OH! Those damned facts do get in the way of a good spinning, don't they?
Sincerely,
Joseph A. Gamero
Hamilton, ON