One would expect this kind of talk from, um, I don’t know, hysterical, intolerant, bigoted Christianophobes, or something. But no, it’s from liberals. In our House of Commons. In Canada. You can’t make this ass-hattery up.
I even heard it with my own ears. But LifeSite.net has a good write-up about the matter.
Liberal Leader Calls Christian’s Appointment an “Affront to Our Democracy”
By John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, October 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Liberal Party of Canada has put out a “reality check” to Canadian media highlighting the appointment of Conservative MP Darrel Reid as Chief of Staff to Environment Minister Rona Ambrose. Liberal Leader Bill Graham called Reid’s appointment an “affront to our democracy.”
Following in the “scary” Christian theme, made famous in the Liberal Party attacks on former Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day, the Party’s ‘reality check’ noted that “Reid was Canadian president of the U.S. based social conservative group Focus on the Family.”
Andre Fortin, the press secretary the office of Liberal Party Leader Bill Graham, told LifeSiteNews.com that “A number of positions Mr. Reid’s taken in the past he’s made comments about Quebec, about gays and lesbians, about the Muslim world, all these things we’re concerned about.”
One of Reid’s quotes the Liberal Party highlighted in the list of quotes referred to by Fortin of concern to the Liberal Party was the following: “Only God can make Canada a truly Christian country… Christians are called to be faithful where God places them. We are called to speak biblical truth to seek justice – and that obviously has implications for our political life.”
Asked what was objectionable about the quote Fortin evaded the question. He said: “We just decided to highlight the quote made by Mr Reid and it’ll be up to Canadians to see if they think this person is fit to work in a minister’s office in one of the highest positions in our government all these quotes will be object-able (sic), or will be objected by some Canadians, and we just wanted to put them out there and let the Canadian people make their own decisions about it.”
Former Liberal MP Pat O’Brien who quit the Party after the Leadership forced homosexual ‘marriage’ on Canadians without proper debate or a free vote was not surprised by the development.
“As far as I’m concerned the Liberal Party lost all credibility long ago with regard to guarding morals, so it’s no surprise to me that they are taking umbrage at someone standing up for Christian values in society,” O’Brien told LifeSiteNews.com. “They continue to erode those values. I think that is one reason why the Liberal Party have and will continue to lose support from traditional Liberal voters.”
Coincidentally, I said just this morning in my first blog entry which concerns liberals’ values:
Liberals, whose central core values seem so often to revolve around the orgasm, have long lost any moral ground insofar as lecturing anybody about “values”, and yet they persist and pretend to own the term “Canadian values”.
I don’t often find liberals agreeing with me, but truth is truth.
The article goes on:
The Liberal’s objected to this quote by Reid about what Fortin called “the Muslim world”: “It is about high time that Muslims the world over show the world that theirs is a religion of peace, rather than a religion based on threats, intimidation and terrorism.”
The Liberals also objected to a quote by Reid opposing the homosexual hate crime bill which the Catholic Bishops of Canada warned would lead to attacks on religious freedom. Liberal MP Tom Wappel had condemned the same legislation as “a terribly dangerous piece of legislation” and many other Liberal MPs joined in fighting the bill.
Earlier today, our friend and columnist Joseph Ben-Ami was quick off the mark and sent out this news release in response to the Liberal blather, to let his good word on the matter be known. Exactly no press will pick it up, so I will post it here in its scary entirety:
OTTAWA – Joseph Ben-Ami, Executive Director of the Institute for Canadian Values, is criticizing the federal Liberal Party for attacking a recently hired government employee because of his Christian faith.
“As a Jew, I strongly deplore attacks on any individual’s religious faith, whether direct or indirect,” said Ben-Ami. “It reminds me of how people used to be encouraged to vote against a particular candidate just because that candidate was Jewish.”
Ben-Ami was responding to questions raised in the House of Commons concerning a member of Environment Minister Rona Ambrose’s staff.
“This is Canada. An individual’s religious faith is not a legitimate target to attack in order to score cheap political points. It’s especially inappropriate when that individual does not even hold elected office.”
“This is just one more sign of the real and growing menace of anti-religious bigotry on the political left in Canada that Canadians need to be alert to,” Ben-Ami continued. “That, and intolerance for sincere and constructive dissent, are more than just “un-Canadian” – they are, in fact, fundamentally anti-liberal and are the hallmark of totalitarian regimes throughout history.”
And so it goes.
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