Today's Cultural Warfare Update
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solarbirdOne of the sites I usually monitor is having web server problems, so today's entry is even smaller than I had anticipated. I kept waiting to see whether they'd come back online, but they haven't, and I'm tired of waiting. Lame. Anyway, here are today's articles:
Alberta uber alles;
Author of the Alberta Secession column below heads an organisation which says marriage rights "proves Canada doesn't work";
Today's Family News in Focus;
Family Research Council demands two Democratic senators recuse themselves from the O'Connor replacement confirmation process - starts radio ad campaign against them.
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Sat, July 9, 2005
Time for Alberta to exit, stage right?
By LINK BYFIELD -- Calgary Sun
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Link_Byfield/2005/07/09/1123621.html
A University of Alberta professor I know sent me a lengthy article he's trying to get published, entitled: "Let's get while the getting's good."
In it, Leon Craig, professor emeritus of political science, lays out a case for Alberta to declare unilateral independence. And he lays it out well.
Craig makes no bones about it.
Alberta, he says, should go it alone.
Almost overnight, we would become one of the most prosperous nations in the world.
But -- and this is his key point -- the main reason to secede is not because Albertans would have more money. Not that there's anything wrong with money.
More importantly, we would create a country that reflects our own political and social beliefs, values and traditions, and our understanding of the common good.
Canada, says Craig, has been so badly governed since the Trudeau era, it has doomed itself to a Third World, banana republic fate.
We will become -- are in fact becoming -- the Argentina of the 21st century.
Political corruption gets rewarded instead of punished, productivity slides, and the opportunistic politics of envy becomes the basis of our whole system of national government.
The only promising place left in Canada, he concludes, is Alberta.
And Alberta owes it to itself, to its future citizens, and to like-minded people in the rest of the country to save itself.
As a sovereign and independent nation, he suggests, our population -- viable to begin with -- would double in 10 years, even allowing for a welcome exodus of Albertans who would be happier back in Canada.
Far more good people move to take advantage of opportunity than flee from it.
Our social policies -- marriage and family matters, medicare, civil and religious freedoms, etc. -- would no longer be imposed by the Supreme Court and a handful of Ottawa mandarins.
We could establish our own laws to deal with crime and punishment, and our own separate relationship with the Americans.
If we don't do these things now, he says, we'll sink with the Canadian ship.
[More at URL]
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Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy
WEEKLY COMMENTARY
"Just Between Us"
July 4, 2005
The gay marriage victory shows that Canada doesn't work
http://www.citizenscentre.com/jbu05-07-04.html
Canada's social conservatives suffered another painful body-blow last week when the Liberals' homosexual marriage bill cleared the Commons 158 votes to 133.
Now it just needs to be rubber-stamped through the Liberal Senate, and presto! it becomes the law of the land.
Despite heroic resistance, despite public opinion and common sense being on their side, despite vigorous organization, despite the best efforts of the Conservative Party, the social conservatives lost.
And surely they must be wondering why.
Why is it that whatever is "progressive" (i.e. whatever makes the Canadian government more powerful) always triumphs, regardless of how unpopular it is, and why always at the expense of traditional authorities, especially the family and the faiths?
By making homosexual marriage an "equality right" under the Charter, governments have put churches on notice that they are henceforth outside the Charter.
Despite whatever Liberals now say about protecting religious rights, human rights law is quite clear. You may believe and say anything you like in private but not in public.
Churches, for now, are being treated as "private." But this is completely changeable. "Charter values" are already relentlessly enforced everywhere in the "public" realm--which means in schools (including religious ones), community halls (including religious ones), commercial and professional businesses (including religious ones) and government programs.
Stickers are already being plastered on news boxes in Toronto to "Tax the churches!" A Saskatchewan judge has already ruled that publishing the mere reference numbers to anti-sodomy passages from the Bible is "discriminatory." Pro-gay MPs like Keith Martin have already denounced as "venom" and "hatred" parliamentary statements against homosexual marriage. It is already a serious criminal offence to publish undefined "hatred" of homosexuals.
For a little longer, the fiction will be preserved that gay equality does not conflict with freedom of belief. But then, six years ago Parliament was insisting that gay marriage would never happen.
Political fictions outlive their usefulness pretty fast these days.
So how much longer will it be before the Bible is formally condemned as hate literature, because it describes sodomy as worth hating?
[More at URL]
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Family News in Focus
Monday, July 11, 2005
Focus on the Family
Kim Troby
* As President Bush considers new justices for the Supreme Court, churchgoers watch closely
1. "Weekly church attendees have the highest interest." Those who follow politics are more "blase" about it. American Enterprise Institute fellow says weekly church attendance "often equates to political activism." More likely to be conservative, Republican. "There is a correlation between liberalism and activism." "Democrats appeal to less religious Americans... but less religious Americans are, by definition, less interested in anything." (DA FUCK?) Talks about 10 Commandments cases and Roe v. Wade. "Churchgoers may have the advantage."
* Embryonic stem cell research is legal, but not funded by Federal government - Possible vote in Congress this week could change that
3. More referrals to this as "young human life." "Biologically, these are young humans." "It's time to notify Senators that Federally funded embryonic stem-cell research is not what Americans want." Urges call to legislators against it. Bush promises to veto. Bush: "We should not send public money to... destroy human life."
* Accountability for things children do comes home to roost with Mom and Dad in form of monetary fines and even jail time
4. "Mostly, the rules and regulations that can affect parents revolve around children playing hookey." "Educational neglect." Talk a lot about Detroit laws with sentences as high as 90 days. "early accountability for lackadaisical parenting" can make a difference later. Cleveland considering $500 and two months in jail for child violating curfew.
* ACLU suing Wisconsin on behalf of some gay state employees who want work related health benefits
6. Earl Vandenhoodle (?), "if we granted people who have the same-sex partners, we also have to grant that to people living together." "Upwards of 11 million people nationwide could want the benefit." Alliance Defense Fund calls DP benefits a "heavy burden." Citizens for Community Values says it will "bankrupt their community" because of the legislation and benefits. "Once you start acknowledging them as a protected class, then you have to accept them in all other forms of law and also public policy."
* Strong majority of Americans believe that human beings were created directly by God, according to a Harris Poll - Lone exception: liberals
5. Institute for Creation Research is very happy, quotes Apostle Paul, "God's creation being clearly seen." "We can see it both in the heavens and under the microscope."
* House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is calling for national strategy to combat gangs
7. "Similar to the way we handle terrorism." "Gangs are like local terrorism."
* Federal Judge in Chicago has ruled Pentagon can no longer help the Boy Scouts with their National Jamborees - Suit brought by ACLU because Boy Scouts require oath to God
2. This year's Jamboree won't be affected. "It's more like a training exercise for the military." Pentagon expected to appeal.
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FRC Launches Radio Ads Calling on Schumer and Kennedy to Recuse Themselves
July 8, 2005 - Friday
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 8, 2005
CONTACT: Amber Hildebrand, (202) 393-2100
FOR RADIO: J.P. Duffy
"A judge whose mind is already made up has to 'recuse' himself, which means to withdraw from considering the case. Senators Schumer and Kennedy should 'recuse' themselves from the debate over the next Supreme Court nominee." - FRC Radio Ad
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Family Research Council announced the launch of a radio ad campaign calling on Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) to recuse themselves from the debate over a Supreme Court nominee. The radio ads will run statewide in New York and regionally in Massachusetts beginning on Monday, July 11th.
The ad states, "If a judge ruled in a case before hearing any of the evidence, she wouldn't be much of a judge. But that's what Sen. Charles Schumer wants the next member of the Supreme Court to do - declare in advance how he or she would rule on controversial cases before the Court."
The ad also criticizes Senator Kennedy for declaring his support for judicial litmus tests. The ad states, "And if a judge convicted a defendant who hadn't been named yet, that would be just absurd. But Sen. Edward Kennedy is already declaring litmus tests for a judicial nominee who hasn't even been selected."
To download the audio of the radio ads, go to www.frc.org.
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Alberta uber alles;
Author of the Alberta Secession column below heads an organisation which says marriage rights "proves Canada doesn't work";
Today's Family News in Focus;
Family Research Council demands two Democratic senators recuse themselves from the O'Connor replacement confirmation process - starts radio ad campaign against them.
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Sat, July 9, 2005
Time for Alberta to exit, stage right?
By LINK BYFIELD -- Calgary Sun
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Link_Byfield/2005/07/09/1123621.html
A University of Alberta professor I know sent me a lengthy article he's trying to get published, entitled: "Let's get while the getting's good."
In it, Leon Craig, professor emeritus of political science, lays out a case for Alberta to declare unilateral independence. And he lays it out well.
Craig makes no bones about it.
Alberta, he says, should go it alone.
Almost overnight, we would become one of the most prosperous nations in the world.
But -- and this is his key point -- the main reason to secede is not because Albertans would have more money. Not that there's anything wrong with money.
More importantly, we would create a country that reflects our own political and social beliefs, values and traditions, and our understanding of the common good.
Canada, says Craig, has been so badly governed since the Trudeau era, it has doomed itself to a Third World, banana republic fate.
We will become -- are in fact becoming -- the Argentina of the 21st century.
Political corruption gets rewarded instead of punished, productivity slides, and the opportunistic politics of envy becomes the basis of our whole system of national government.
The only promising place left in Canada, he concludes, is Alberta.
And Alberta owes it to itself, to its future citizens, and to like-minded people in the rest of the country to save itself.
As a sovereign and independent nation, he suggests, our population -- viable to begin with -- would double in 10 years, even allowing for a welcome exodus of Albertans who would be happier back in Canada.
Far more good people move to take advantage of opportunity than flee from it.
Our social policies -- marriage and family matters, medicare, civil and religious freedoms, etc. -- would no longer be imposed by the Supreme Court and a handful of Ottawa mandarins.
We could establish our own laws to deal with crime and punishment, and our own separate relationship with the Americans.
If we don't do these things now, he says, we'll sink with the Canadian ship.
[More at URL]
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Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy
WEEKLY COMMENTARY
"Just Between Us"
July 4, 2005
The gay marriage victory shows that Canada doesn't work
http://www.citizenscentre.com/jbu05-07-04.html
Canada's social conservatives suffered another painful body-blow last week when the Liberals' homosexual marriage bill cleared the Commons 158 votes to 133.
Now it just needs to be rubber-stamped through the Liberal Senate, and presto! it becomes the law of the land.
Despite heroic resistance, despite public opinion and common sense being on their side, despite vigorous organization, despite the best efforts of the Conservative Party, the social conservatives lost.
And surely they must be wondering why.
Why is it that whatever is "progressive" (i.e. whatever makes the Canadian government more powerful) always triumphs, regardless of how unpopular it is, and why always at the expense of traditional authorities, especially the family and the faiths?
By making homosexual marriage an "equality right" under the Charter, governments have put churches on notice that they are henceforth outside the Charter.
Despite whatever Liberals now say about protecting religious rights, human rights law is quite clear. You may believe and say anything you like in private but not in public.
Churches, for now, are being treated as "private." But this is completely changeable. "Charter values" are already relentlessly enforced everywhere in the "public" realm--which means in schools (including religious ones), community halls (including religious ones), commercial and professional businesses (including religious ones) and government programs.
Stickers are already being plastered on news boxes in Toronto to "Tax the churches!" A Saskatchewan judge has already ruled that publishing the mere reference numbers to anti-sodomy passages from the Bible is "discriminatory." Pro-gay MPs like Keith Martin have already denounced as "venom" and "hatred" parliamentary statements against homosexual marriage. It is already a serious criminal offence to publish undefined "hatred" of homosexuals.
For a little longer, the fiction will be preserved that gay equality does not conflict with freedom of belief. But then, six years ago Parliament was insisting that gay marriage would never happen.
Political fictions outlive their usefulness pretty fast these days.
So how much longer will it be before the Bible is formally condemned as hate literature, because it describes sodomy as worth hating?
[More at URL]
----- 3 -----
Family News in Focus
Monday, July 11, 2005
Focus on the Family
Kim Troby
* As President Bush considers new justices for the Supreme Court, churchgoers watch closely
1. "Weekly church attendees have the highest interest." Those who follow politics are more "blase" about it. American Enterprise Institute fellow says weekly church attendance "often equates to political activism." More likely to be conservative, Republican. "There is a correlation between liberalism and activism." "Democrats appeal to less religious Americans... but less religious Americans are, by definition, less interested in anything." (DA FUCK?) Talks about 10 Commandments cases and Roe v. Wade. "Churchgoers may have the advantage."
* Embryonic stem cell research is legal, but not funded by Federal government - Possible vote in Congress this week could change that
3. More referrals to this as "young human life." "Biologically, these are young humans." "It's time to notify Senators that Federally funded embryonic stem-cell research is not what Americans want." Urges call to legislators against it. Bush promises to veto. Bush: "We should not send public money to... destroy human life."
* Accountability for things children do comes home to roost with Mom and Dad in form of monetary fines and even jail time
4. "Mostly, the rules and regulations that can affect parents revolve around children playing hookey." "Educational neglect." Talk a lot about Detroit laws with sentences as high as 90 days. "early accountability for lackadaisical parenting" can make a difference later. Cleveland considering $500 and two months in jail for child violating curfew.
* ACLU suing Wisconsin on behalf of some gay state employees who want work related health benefits
6. Earl Vandenhoodle (?), "if we granted people who have the same-sex partners, we also have to grant that to people living together." "Upwards of 11 million people nationwide could want the benefit." Alliance Defense Fund calls DP benefits a "heavy burden." Citizens for Community Values says it will "bankrupt their community" because of the legislation and benefits. "Once you start acknowledging them as a protected class, then you have to accept them in all other forms of law and also public policy."
* Strong majority of Americans believe that human beings were created directly by God, according to a Harris Poll - Lone exception: liberals
5. Institute for Creation Research is very happy, quotes Apostle Paul, "God's creation being clearly seen." "We can see it both in the heavens and under the microscope."
* House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is calling for national strategy to combat gangs
7. "Similar to the way we handle terrorism." "Gangs are like local terrorism."
* Federal Judge in Chicago has ruled Pentagon can no longer help the Boy Scouts with their National Jamborees - Suit brought by ACLU because Boy Scouts require oath to God
2. This year's Jamboree won't be affected. "It's more like a training exercise for the military." Pentagon expected to appeal.
----- 4 -----
FRC Launches Radio Ads Calling on Schumer and Kennedy to Recuse Themselves
July 8, 2005 - Friday
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 8, 2005
CONTACT: Amber Hildebrand, (202) 393-2100
FOR RADIO: J.P. Duffy
"A judge whose mind is already made up has to 'recuse' himself, which means to withdraw from considering the case. Senators Schumer and Kennedy should 'recuse' themselves from the debate over the next Supreme Court nominee." - FRC Radio Ad
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Family Research Council announced the launch of a radio ad campaign calling on Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) to recuse themselves from the debate over a Supreme Court nominee. The radio ads will run statewide in New York and regionally in Massachusetts beginning on Monday, July 11th.
The ad states, "If a judge ruled in a case before hearing any of the evidence, she wouldn't be much of a judge. But that's what Sen. Charles Schumer wants the next member of the Supreme Court to do - declare in advance how he or she would rule on controversial cases before the Court."
The ad also criticizes Senator Kennedy for declaring his support for judicial litmus tests. The ad states, "And if a judge convicted a defendant who hadn't been named yet, that would be just absurd. But Sen. Edward Kennedy is already declaring litmus tests for a judicial nominee who hasn't even been selected."
To download the audio of the radio ads, go to www.frc.org.
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Date: 2005-07-11 08:38 pm (UTC)"Democrats appeal to less religious Americans... but less religious Americans are, by definition, less interested in anything."
Indeed, DA FUCK? I can't even begin to figure out a justification for this remark.
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Date: 2005-07-12 02:37 pm (UTC)Congratulations. Your subversive homosexual agenda is working! World domination!!!1!!!11 OMG