Fear not, freedom is on the way. Oh yes, and it is coming, even to Canada.
This Internet cavalry has been too long a comin’—thank goodness the Lone Ranger, in the form of the infamous American Internet blogging community, has finally weighed in on Gomery.
After cutting their teeth on exposing Dan Rather’s inept journalism, they’ve moved onto corruption north of the 49th.
While the Gomery Commission has enacted a publication ban, American bloggers in the U.S. have the dirt, and Gomery has no control over the global community.
American bloggers are publishing what they find out regarding the secret inquiry findings directly online.
Unadulterated freedom offered by the Internet and and the new perspective offered by FOX News are new to Canadians.
It is hard to keep track of ongoing Liberal scandals these days, but also keep an eye on another ongoing publication ban—this time in B.C.
Like the Gomery inquiry, judges have enacted a publication ban to protect accused Liberals because of upcoming criminal trials.
Through the Internet, Canadians are re-discovering good old-fashioned “liberty,” a word that was and is still today carved directly into the pillar that holds up the House of Commons. Globalism is allowing Canadians to rediscover Canada, while at the same time ethnic voters in Canada are only now realizing their freedom to practise their own cultural marriage beliefs is threatened by a social-liberal agenda.
Even before Paul Martin’s anti-marriage Bill C-38, passes, intolerance in the form of persecution for same sex-marriage non-believers is mounting: Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry has been taken to the Human Rights Commission at the same time an Anglican congregation and its clergy have been kicked out of their building in B.C. April 1 (no fooling) for sticking to scriptural tenets on one man, one woman marriage.
Also in B.C., the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men’s organization known for charity and community work has been taken to the Human Rights Commission for not renting their hall to a lesbian marriage reception.
Hundreds of marriage commissioners have already resigned. And in Saskatchewan, marriage commissioners, be they pastors or secular, have already been warned they will be forced to marry same sex couples—or resign.
Calgary Northeast MP Art Hanger recently remarked on this growing trend of Canadian conditional religious freedom: “If religious leaders are threatened with this kind of abuse when they state church doctrine … then Canada is developing a Soviet-style religious freedom where we are free to observe our faith—but beware of the consequences to follow.”
Strange are the times we live in. As an admitted Canadian churchgoer and someone who is about to tie the knot myself, a nagging question has begun to plague my mind.
Many Canadian pastors seem willing to observe this new conditional religious freedom provided by the Liberals with no protest. So does this mean if Paul Martin’s Bill C-38 passes, that as a churchgoer, I will have to get married twice?
Once by a state-sanctioned marriage commissioner who has agreed to marry homosexuals and once for a mere blessing by my pastor who has agreed to abdicate his rights to perform legal ceremonies?
I am hoping our American Internet blogging friends will help me get to the bottom of this one.
Copyright ? 2005 Janet L. Jackson.
Columnist for the Calgary Sun, Janet L. Jackson is also Executive Director of the Canadian Conservative Union. Through her work with conservative political action committees, Jackson has been an effective and prominent voice for preserving traditional marriage, religious freedom and free speech.
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