That's a good phrase for it; a "political drive-by shooting." Here's his statement during question period on May 27, 2010:
Barbara Kay reports in her piece: Gilles Duceppe owes an apology to Catholics“Mr. Speaker, Ottawa’s bishop stated yesterday that a sizeable pro-life caucus is working behind the scenes within the government. The Prime Minister, who controls everything, must know about this caucus.”
With McCarthyite melodrama, M. Duceppe then intoned the names and positions in the Conservative Party of three practicing Catholics, as if that were proof of the ominous “caucus.”Duceppe has probably been reading Dan Brown, because these three poeple's crime (beyond being Christians) is that they are members of a society called "Opus Dei." How sinister! Kay goes on to say:
These Catholics are all members of Opus Dei, a prelature of the Catholic Church, a group I am very familiar with, and amongst whom I count some of my closest friends. Opus Dei means in Latin “God’s Work.” Members of “the Work” believe that holiness is something to be strived for in one’s daily life: in one’s job, however important or however humble, in one’s friendships, one’s family life and civic obligations.
But Christians are fair game it seems; Christian opposition to abortion is somehow seen as undemocratic to the minds of totalitarian liberals; it is painted as a conspiracy. When it comes to any discussion about abortion, then not only do the gloves come off, but the knives and baseball bats come out.Opus Dei does good works all over the planet (I have seen documentaries on their projects in the hellholes of the world, bringing aid, comfort and social assistance to the poorest and most forgotten, without fanfare or publicity-seeking or missionary profit), punching far above their demographic weight. Few in number – about 85,000 world-wide and only a few thousand in all of Canada – they are immersed in public life in the most positive and benign ways. And of the more than 100,000 members of the Conservative Party, why yes, there are probably two or three members of Opus Dei.
And where is the press in this?
Quebec's liberal media seems on-board:
It's clear that Christians are fair-game in the liberal-leftist ideology of Canada. I hold to the Canadian Charter of Freedoms and Rights; a Christian has the same right to express their views on abortion or other moral issues, as does a member of the liberal-left. But what we see is that liberal-leftist ideologies claim they know what is best for public, and therefore they have the moral right to take away the voice of Christians, and to attack them as conspirators. Seems like the media may even support them; that is until it is one of their own.Look at the reaction to Cardinal Marc Ouellet’s call for public debate on the morality of abortion. Note: he did not call for legislative change. He called abortion a “moral crime.” In response the francophone media went ballistic. Would Patrick Lagacé of La Presse have dared to curse any non-Catholic religious leaders? It is unthinkable that any Canadian pundit would say of an imam, as Lagacé did of Cardinal Ouellet:
“We must all die. We are all going to die. Cardinal Ouellet is going to die one day. I hope he will die of a long and painful sickness…Yes, the paragraph I have just written is vicious. But [Cardinal] Marc Ouellet is an extremist. And in this debate, all blows are permitted against religious extremists…the Cardinal is a fundamentalist. This is a known fact. From there on, whoever agrees to share a political podium with him should be treated like an accomplice to the fanaticism of Kazem Ouellet… “
Gurth Whitaker
Calgary, Alberta
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Gurth,
ReplyDeleteThank you for this Post. I think what is now happening in Canada is the result of decades of influence from the liberal elite that have had so much influence on the public square in Canada.
By liberal I am not referring to the Liberal Party. Rather it is an ideology that has had such a control of Post Secondary Education and the Media, that even those who present a reasoned position that calls into question this ideology are deemed fundamentalist or worse.
I believe that while it is difficult to read the kinds of comments made by Mr. Duceppe, it is what we can expect from those hold to his interpretation of the world. I am sure there are some people in his caucus, as there might be in Mr. Harper's who support abortion. Would they be called out and questioned? Of course not, because to support abortion is part of the ideology of people like Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Legace.
So here we are, and I while we do not appreciate this double standard, Christians have been subjected to this many times during the past 2000 years. What makes it more difficult for us is how such attitudes as Mr. Duceppe's are on the rise in Canada. People like Mr. Legace speak of tolerance but they are intolerant towards those who would challenge their world view. No longer do they argue at the level of ideas, instead the attack the person. This is becoming increasingly prevalent in Canada and is something we will undoubtedly see more of in the coming decade.
However let us not be discouraged but remember Jesus said his followers would be slandered and reviled because of their faith in Him.
May Jesus' blessing be with Mr. Duceppe and Mr. Legace because our Lord said we are to bless those who persecute believers.
Peace,
Jonathan
UNTIL the cowards start railing on the undercover activities of islamist activists, who are trying, not to protect nascent human life, but to impose Sharia on all of us ... which would see the abolition of Parliament, incidentally ... they should be shamed and mocked openly, and derided for desertion in the face of the (real) enemy.
ReplyDeleteBut are there ANY conservatives in parliament who are up to it?