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September 23, 2002 - Vol 9 No 35

Speak Up Now, or Wear Your Chains in Silence

In British Columbia - where the Provincial Government has wisely canned the Human Rights Commission's chair (who had a discernable pro-gay bias) and is dismantling the Commission itself - the militant gay lobby is now turning to the Federal HRC for help to force its agenda on a sleeping public.

Its current target is a website with which the principal gay spokespersons disagree - and that's a very dangerous posture, in Canada today. A complaint about the website has been lodged before the Federal Human Rights Commission, which has obediently ordered the website shut down, and its owners fined $20,000. And when the website reported the name of its accuser, the HRC amended the complaint to add an accusation of "retaliation", and raised the fine to $40,000!

Say, who's doing the really heavy "retaliation" here? Complain about the HRC, and get a heavier fine; complain again, and we'll fine you more until you shut up.

Can you spell I-N-T-I-M-I-D-A-T-I-O-N?

While the website may not be aesthetically appealing to some tastes, and while some of its postings could be considered 'rants', two points must be made:

1 - In my scan of the site, I found nothing that qualified as 'hate'. Disagreement, yes; dislike, yes; antipathy, yes; arguments, certainly; even accusations... but nothing I would call 'hate'.

2 - The issue here is much, much larger than the quality of the statements on any specific website. The issue is whether there can be a public discussion of the issue at all.

The issue is free speech. Period.

There's intense pressure in Canada today to silence all critics of the gay agenda; the gay lobby is pushing its propaganda in many arenas simultaneously:

• Their most effective victories have been in those kangaroo courts wrongly called 'human rights tribunals', all of which ought to be shut down. They operate with quasi-judicial power in areas that relate to constitutional rights, and yet they do not follow normal rules of evidence, nor the presumption of innocence that is fundamental to our system of justice.

A judgment by Madam Justice Tremblay-Lamer in the Federal Court of Canada [in the Canadian Telephone Employees Association v. Bell Canada (2000), 194 D.L.R.(4th) 499, decision rendered last November] stated that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal "is not an institutionally independent and impartial body." Because this Tribunal deals with quasi-constitutional rights and freedoms and is purely adjudicative in nature, she said, it must perform at the high end of the spectrum in impartiality. The Federal Court says it fails to do so. An article in the Globe and Mail by one of the HRC's staff lawyers (you can read it at the disputed website, http://www.citizensresearchinst.com) and another article (from Canadian Lawyer magazine) about how the HRC took revenge on that lawyer for speaking to the media (also on the website) shows just how corrupt the 'human rights' industry has become - and why it ought to be dismantled.

• The public schools have been co-opted by militant gays, working through the teachers' unions and other 'professional' groups as well as organizing recruitment venues called 'Gay-Straight Alliance' clubs.

An example is the case of Chris Kempling in Quesnel, BC - a teacher and counsellor with many commendations on his record, he was threatened by the BC College of Teachers with loss of employment. Why? Because he wrote a letter to the editor of his local newspaper, expressing (in very moderate terms) his disagreement with the gay agenda. Bye-bye, freedom of speech!

• The courts have been used by the gay lobby to get the changes to laws that it cannot win by democratic means. It was also the BCCT that tried to block Trinity Western University from certifying its graduates to teach; they lost that bid in the courts, but the Supreme Court of Canada tacked an egregious rider onto the decision, in effect saying that Christians should keep their faith to themselves. Later, the minority opinion in that case was used by the BCCT in its persecution of Kempling.

A court upheld a human rights tribunal's fine of Christian printer Scott Brockie, and put severe limits on his freedom of conscience. An Ontario court went so far as to (a) ignore a previous BC Court ruling,

and (b) overrule the decision of the Federal Parliament (which has sole constitutional jurisdiction), and ORDER Parliament to legalize same-sex 'marriage'!

The courts, in fact, are trampling the Constitution - in the name of the Constitution!

• The media, as Boston Herald columnist Michael Medved pointed out in a brilliant speech before the National Press Club in Washington DC last June, has decided there is no controversy: the 'gay rights' movement is right, and anyone who disagrees is wrong - period. No discussion.

Yet millions of people in Canada - probably a majority - believe the homosexual lifestyle is immoral, unnatural and unhealthy. And they're right. The crucial point at issue is whether anyone will be able to say so in public.

• In the legislatures, where formerly pro-gay propaganda used to meet resistance from the elected representatives of the people, the persistent pressure of the gay lobby - coupled with many politicians' abject fear of the pro-gay media - is now beginning to pay off: Svend Robinson's Private Member's Bill C-415, which would make public criticism of homosexual behaviour a crime.

Less than one percent of Private Members' bills get passed into law. So why did C-415 float through second reading without dissent? One reason: the Liberals were happy to have the NDP carry the ball for them; the Federal Cabinet favours the bill, but fears public reaction. This way, they get the gratitude of their gay supporters, but any negative fallout will be dumped on the NDP. The Tories and BQ are also pro-gay but timid, so they simply stayed away and let it happen. And the Alliance leadership seems to be terrified of awakening all the media dogs that are just waiting to bark, "Homophobia!" at them.

In the midst of all this, the Internet remains an uncensored arena where opposing voices in this otherwise one-sided debate are possible. So, of course, the gay lobby must move to shut down any renegade website. Watch for the CRTC to weigh in on this... and the useless Canadian Broadcast Standards Council - look at contemporary programming and advertising: do you think Canadian broadcasting has any standards any longer? - CBSC has already exposed its pro-gay, libertine bias.

Free speech is at risk in Canada right now. That was why I signed the 'new Magna Carta for Canada' after it was created by the Wilderness Committee at Tumbler Ridge: it is, indeed, "a voice crying in the wilderness." We will either defend free speech now, or we will lose it. Canada has already become a de facto judicial oligarchy... and all the major power vectors have been captured by the anti-intellectual pro-abortion, pro-gay forces that are working to destroy Western Civilization.

Canadians must speak up now, or wear their chains in silence.