The War Room

GAY RIGHTS VS. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

I'm not quite sure to make of this yet. In my gut, I think a Defense of Religions Act is a good, but in realpolitik will probably be more for optics in the next election then anything else.

If the Tories cannot win in the Commons on re-opening the issue of SSM, I cannot see how any act that defends religious freedoms can be won also. The same groups will vote along the same lines.

What is of note, is that it will bring out in the open what one of the goals of SSM was to begin with; to stifle the views of religious people who might dare to oppose it and the almighty voices on high of the radical secularist movement.

If religious people have nothing to fear from the proponents of SSM, then the proponents of SSM should have no problem giving religious people more protection. But we know they won't because we know what they hope to accomplish. Many of the fears that the opponents of SSM said would happened already have.

We have seen the Knights of Columbus targetted;

We have seen Justices of the Peace fired;

We have seen people get evicted from their homes;

We have seen teachers lose their jobs.

We have read the report the Liberals commissioned on how to sell polygamy to Canada.

SSM may be here to stay in Canada for our lifetimes, but know this, so is the debate about it. If the proponents of SSM, be they progressive, feminist, gay, academic or even 'conservative', think people of religious persuasions will just allow themselves to be bullied and skulk off into the night, as everything they believe in is mocked, ridiculed and reviled, they are fooling themselves.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 5:55 AM