Catholic Insight on watch list; gay men fellating in front of a little kid is fine though
tagged Canada, Catholic Insight, CHRC, Heritage Canada, homosexual, homosexuality, InsideOut, Rob Wells, sex, the Church and Toronto
The Shaidle
passes along the details that the Cat Who Has Achieved Ignition has unearthed concerning Heritage Canada, and it’s about as disgusting and hypocritical as one has come to expect from a “culture”-oriented department of the government of Canada.
magazine is indeed on a watch list after an unnamed homosexual activist lodged a complaint (correct: somebody other than Rob Wells) against it. By and large, as BCF has learned, the material in the complaint was the same as the list of evidence brought before — and later dismissed by — the CHRC in Mr. Wells’ complaint against the publication.
BCF provides scans of letters sent to and from Heritage Canada. The first letter is from the complainant, whining about the “slow pace of action on the Catholic Insight file.” It is in the second letter that the order to Catholic Insight to provide advance copies of their publication for “monitoring purposes” is given. A third letter cautions Catholic Insight against the act of denigrating homosexuals.
Let’s be clear. Catholic Insight does nothing other than communicate the Church’s position on issues, not all of which are related to sex, much less to homosexuality. But it must submit its content for advance screening — risking its access to postal subsidies if it does not pass the censor’s approval. We can argue about the lameness of accepting Caesar’s money and then using it to step on his toes from time to time*, but we can also ask about the priorities of this government department.
Because while Catholic teaching is subject to a censor’s advance approval, exhibitionist homosexuals demonstrating fellatio to a young child is evidently just fine and dandy (ahem) with Heritage Canada. Equally, a movie about boxing and masturbation gets the green light, in the form of tens of thousands of Heritage Canada dollars “proudly” given in sponsorship of InsideOut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, in Toronto.
Welcome to Canada. The Church has kind of lost favour in our noble sight, but the high art of paedophilia is gaining ground all the time.
* this is twice now that the Shaidle has linked to my “Caesar” comment, causing (each time) the predictable spikes in traffic that attend a link from one of the hottest blogs in Canada. Very cool.
Catholic Insight placed on ‘watch list’
tagged Catholic Insight, Censorship, CHRC, freedom of expression, Heritage Canada and Rob Wells
This is something I missed when I noted, yesterday, that Rob Wells is evidently moving to appeal the rejection of his complaint against magazine by the CHRC.
It would appear that Catholic Insight has been placed on the Heritage Canada ‘watch list’ — that is, the magazine has been flagged as potentially having “questionable content”, and must submit each issue to a Heritage Canada panel for approval and “screening” prior to publishing.
Now, I’m on record elsewhere saying that I don’t much like it when people align themselves with Caesar and then complain that he’s acting too Roman for their tastes. And since Catholic Insight does accept Heritage Canada money, they have unfortunately opened themselves to this state of affairs — one never gets to lead when one takes Caesar as a dance partner.
That’s not to say that I think Heritage Canada is justified in supporting a course of action that amounts to little more than Censorship, of course. The government is not in the right here, and I completely agree with BCF’s observation that the whole situation reeks of a kind of “cultural Marxism.” There would appear to be an implied threat that Catholic Insight could find its funding cut off if it publishes something that the censors object to.
Ultimately, it’s the fact that we even have censors working to limit the expression of opinion in this country that is the really terrible thing, and the thing which most needs to change. It would be nice if Catholic Insight could find an alternative source of funding, as well, so that it wouldn’t be so beholden to the whims of others, but…well…who ever said the world was perfect?
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Rob Wells appeals
tagged Catholic Insight, CHRC, homosexual and Rob Wells
It would appear that homosexual activist and anti-Catholic bigot Rob Wells is filing a motion for judicial review of the CHRC’s dismissal of his complaint against Catholic Insight magazine.
I don’t know how far he’ll get with this; if the CHRC decides your complaint doesn’t have merit, you probably don’t have much of a chance in court. But some people are persistent…
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A victory for religious freedom
tagged Canada, CHRC, Edmonton and Rob Wells
The CHRC has dismissed the complaint against Catholic Insight magazine filed by Edmontonian homosexual activist Rob Wells.
Deb Gyapong has some preliminary details (check the link, above), with more promised, but for now let it be sufficient to say that this is a major victory for the right to religious expression in Canada. And it may also be a sign that the CHRC is beginning to feel the heat that us freespeechers are giving it — they are much more wary, it seems, concerning which cases to pursue. And if so, that’s a very good thing indeed.
Score one (more) for the good guys.
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