An excellent column by Montreal Gazette columnist and author Henry Aubin caught my eye this week. It’s excellent because it helps expose the perfidy involved in the cabal of liberals who secretly arranged a national award for the liberal-left’s abortion hero, Henry Morgentaler, in order to advance their personal, political/social cause.
I asked for and got his OK to post it here at PTBC. It’s an excellent read at two minutes.
In it, he explains that the brilliant Canadian ethicist Margaret Somerville was passed over by what we now know is the politically tainted Order of Canada committee, ostensibly because Miss Somerville was “too controversial”. Miss Somerville has, you see, argued in favor of traditional marriage and against radical atheism, and so on.
Last year, as a matter of fact, I posted a column by Margaret Somerville here at PTBC (after personally asking her first, as I always do with all our columns and columnists). But she was particularly concerned about this web site, which, based on her answer, she’d obviously visited before, and knew it for what it was: a conservative advocacy site. She told me that she would prefer not to be referred to as a “guest 
columnist” (as of course I normally call the non-regular special guest columnists). This website, she told me, is more political than she was comfortable with in her professional life. She explained that she has always avoided speaking other than as an independent individual and has never joined any advocacy or political organization or ever signed a petition or group letter. This, she said, let her believe that it gives what she has to say more neutrality than it would otherwise be perceived as having, which is important for the credibility of her opinions.
So I made a special new category of columns with a special “avatar” icon (that category has now been used a few times), and in her case, made a special preamble to the column advising readers that she is not associated with this web site as a regular columnist but rather she simply allowed her column to be posted here for interest and discussion purposes.
I tell you all this because it obviously was and continues to be extremely important to Miss Somerville that she remain absolutely as neutral as possible in her professional life. To not be a “militant”. To not be too “controversial” in the eyes of her fellow Canadians. So that we might benefit from an intellectually honest discussion of important issues.
And yet she was deemed too “controversial” to receive the Order of Canada. Apparently an intellectually honest discussion of the issues is not what the liberal-left wants. Perhaps they can’t handle it.
This further proves the scurrilous, secret, liberal-left-led mission to award radical extremist abortionist and abortion mill operator Henry Morgentaler —on Canada Day no less— was a complete political travesty. It’s perfidy of the highest order.
It’s an absolute Canadian disgrace.
• Margaret Somerville’s article here at PTBC:
Attackers of religion display their own fundamentalist zeal
• Henry Aubin’s article here at PTBC:
McGill ethicist refused Order of Canada because she was ‘too controversial’
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