Change in the wind.
"Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live."
Ezekiel 37.9
On what grounds?
It is “inserting religion into the workplace.”
Oh, and since when is that illegal, or inappropriate to the workplace? My faith is the source of the whole shape of my life; how can I help but “insert religion into the workplace”? It’s not like saying this phrase is proselytizing on company time; it’s simply that someone chose to be offended.
Not a good omen, considering that Canada Post is a Crown corporation.
New on site: sermon on countering abortion in our new audio section.
It seems that environmental groups for once have been largely silent on the latter issue.
The anti-life track record of Barack Obama continues to grow. He has appointed Thomas Perrelli – the lead lawyer in the fight to remove feeding tubes from Terry Schiavo – as associate attorney general.
Please take part in this public consultation by Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance.
The survey lists five suggested areas of “economic stimulus” that you are supposed to rank, and also offers a sixth option, where you will be allowed to suggest your own priority on the form’s next page.
What I did was make my own priority #1, then listed the rest in the order of what I felt were most legitimate/least threatening to long term stability, and the least redistributive. The substance of my #1, of course, was that the government not attempt to artificially stimulate the economy, as every effort to do so requires moving assets (in the form of taxes etc) from society as a whole, or from more productive sectors, in particular, to those which are least efficient and represent the most drain on the economy.
I then ranked the others like this:
We’ve had the site largely under wraps for a few weeks, but now that we have four articles posted, as well as a couple of substantive blog posts and a decent start on our categorized links, we’re officially launching!
I hope you will find the site informative and helpful. If you find some articles that should be linked, please feel free to fire me off a recommendation.
It was actually my first article idea for the site, and now I’ve completed it: “Life First of All: Why Defense of Life Should Be the Touchstone of Activism.” I thought it to be a suitable article to introduce on Christmas Day.
As always, both HTML and PDF versions are available.
It is frequently stated that the agenda for advancing homosexual rights has absolutely nothing to do with pedophilia, despite various studies which suggest that 20-25% of adult homosexuals involve themselves sexually with members of the same sex who are 16 years old or younger.
That aside, however, one of the centrepieces of the international agenda of the Left is to declare abortion a “fundamental human right” such that parents cannot interfere with the decision to abort that is made by a minor. (This is also part of the Freedom of Choice Act which president-elect Barack Obama has publicly committed himself to signing in short order after taking office.)
Yet if a minor has that sort of authority over his or her sexuality, it is plain to see that a minor is qualified to provide consent to enter a sexual relationship with an adult. Perhaps this is why Planned Parenthood has repeatedly been caught with its pants down in recent years, when counsellors turned a deaf ear to what, for all they knew, were egregious cases of statutory rape. (More recently, LiveActions Films have repeatedly drawn similar responses to abortion requests from Planned Parenthood all across the USA. Here is an example.)
Let’s not kid ourselves. Children who have “authority” to abort babies are going to be “granted authority” to have “consensual” sex with adults, whether heterosexual or not. The Left cannot have it both ways. They either must own up to their own ideology in practice (as seen in the Planned Parenthood cases), or they must admit that an underage girl is not equipped to make these sorts of decisions apart from the knowledge and consent of her parents.
This owning up will not happen, of course. The revolution of the Left has been advancing for many decades by way of desensitization. Admitting that pedophilia is part of the agenda would discredit the Left too much before the ideology has had sufficient opportunity to take practical root. Now is the time for vigilance, and to start stemming this tide.