Religious Freedom & Persecution
Please keep the Christian minority in India state in your prayers. There is a major persecution against them currently, including the burning of homes and churches and violence against the people by mobs comprised of the Hindu majority. And now the violence is spreading to other states, including Karnataka and Kerala in southern India. This story is being underreported by the mainstream media.
Supporting free speech is easy when it’s speech you agree with. The real test of your convictions and your desire to protect our God-given rights is when the speech to be protected is that which you view as abhorrent.
In Canada, they are failing that test. The star chambers known as the provincial human rights tribunals has decided to strip yet another person’s right to free speech for failing to pay obeisance to homosexuality. A Protestant minister has been fined $7,000 and ordered to “cease publishing in newspapers, by email, on the radio, in public speeches, or on the internet, in future, disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals.” Michael O’Brien’s novel “”Plague Journal (Children of the Last Days)
Boissoin was first hauled before the Human Rights Commission to answer to a complaint filed by Lund, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. Lund made his complaint after Boissoin published a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate, in which he denounced homosexuality as immoral and dangerous, and called into question new gay-rights curricula permeating the province’s educational system.
So where is the ACLU? I know, it’s Canada, not the US, but you hear liberals extol Canada as a progressive paradise so often, it’s curious that they overlook this jackbooted thuggery. Or maybe it’s not so curious.
Many liberals treat human rights as a construct of the state, meted out like treats for well-behaved children and taken away from those who transgress accepted standards. (Yes, some speech—like “fighting words” and yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater—are unacceptable, but those are the extremes. This is a trampling upon religious and political speech.) But our rights are not given to us by law or by courts or by tribunals or even by the Constitution. Those institutions merely guarantee our rights and enumerate them for all to understand. As the Founding Fathers so clearly understood, we are endowed with rights like freedom of speech and religion by our Creator.
Yet when you’ve cast out God and replaced Him with the Nanny State, which is controlled by whichever party gins up the most votes, then rights become privileges which can be granted, revoked, or simply trampled at the latest fashionable trend.
The United States is not Canada, especially in the way our Constitution is written and our rights guaranteed, but don’t grow complacent in your certainty that your rights will never be stripped from you. In many it’s already happening, if not yet upheld by the highest court in the land, and those who would bend you to their will are hard at work, looking for ways to change the laws of God and man without any of that messy democracy.
Just when you think Catholic bashing in the media can’t any more obnoxious it does. Brent Bozell exposes Comedy Central’s virulently hate-filled anti-Catholic screed in the form of a Tv show called “The Root of All Evil.”
It’s hosted by bottom-feeding shock comic Lewis Black, whose schtick of being as offensive as possible has garnered him such fame that this is the first time I’ve heard of him. Black is a bigot who judges the Catholic Church, which stands on trial charged as being the root of all evil. Sounds hilarious. This is on Comedy Central, why?
He’s joined by another no-name comic, Greg Giraldo, who Bozell says abandons all pretense all comedy to vent his spleen about the Church he was baptized into. You can guess the level of blasphemy and offensiveness that spews forth.
As usual, these cowards attack the Church because they know that Catholics will return insults only with words and prayer, whereas even a much milder level of invective at Islam would be met with fatwas and attempts on their lives.
By the way, Alltel Wireless was the sponsor of the phone-in poll for those who wished to vote for the Church as the root of all evil. Knowledge of which you can do with what you will.
Charles Barkley, the loudmouth former basketball player, was interviewed on CNN and said that conservatives are ‘fake Christians’. He’s pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage and he thinks that being opposed to those things makes one judgmental and in violation of the verse which says, “Judge not, lest you be judged.”
Uh, Charles, what do you think you’re doing by judging conservative Christians? You can’t have it both ways.
Oh, and he said he just bought a house in Alabama so that he can establish his seven years of residency and run for governor of the state in 2014.
So you think pro-life, pro-traditional marriage conservatives are “fake Christians” and you intend to run for governor of perhaps the most Southern of Southern states. Yeah, good luck with that.
In case you don’t keep up with international news, especially in Africa, there’s been a lot of election-related violence in Kenya in recent weeks over what is likely a rigged presidential election.
In the midst of this, a community of Daughters of the Sacred Heart are trying to care for those who have been displaced and affected and Marcel LeJeune prints for us their appeal for help. If you can help and have a desire to get involved check it out at his blog.
