I’m a born Canadian who has lived and worked (legally) in the U.S. and in Europe. Nearly everyone in my family is a naturalized U.S. citizen. I try every chance I get to witness and warn about this disaster. As far as I can tell, outside the 15,000 or so who demonstrated at various places across the country regarding Bill C-38 within a few days recently, Canadians just don’t care.
I believe that Canadians, either the 43.5% who claimed in the 2000 census to be Catholic – more than all other faith groups combined, or not – simply don’t care.
Our federal election last summer saw the lowest voter turnout in Canadian history: 57% of eligible voters. Canadians just don’t care. I know at least one of my VERY TYPICALLY CANADIAN in-laws, complete with thinly veiled, “holier-than-thou” anti-American sentiments stridently tossed out around the Sunday night kitchen conversation after a few, as the “reasons” or “causes” of various U.S. news items, don’t care enough to vote in our own federal election. When questioned about that, it’s “oh, they’re all the same, so I’m making a STATEMENT by abstaining.”
Unfortunately, this adolescent mode of reasoning on citizens’ responsibility in a democracy seems to be the chief cause of the apathy.
Homosexual activists of course, turn out to vote, and the Liberals know this, so they are pandering to a constituency they know will vote for them in the next election by passing their own “Civil Marriage Act” so the state can impose a deadly word game on the enormous majority of Canadians who would have nothing to do with such a thing if they paid enough attention to even understand the salient issues.
There is a certain stripe in the human character that seeks to exhonerate the self. In the Culture of Death, standard procedure is to make ourselves helpless victims as a defense mechanism, and to insulate that for ourselves in a generous layer of reference ot our ignorance–also imposed upon us.
"It’s not my fault I couldn’t vote! I didn’t even know there was an election that day. Besides, I can’t pick the one to vote for and how do you learn about all this complicated stuff? Really politicians are all basically the same anyway. “Each one’s as bad as the next.” [a personal favourite from one of my local sages] My vote doesn’t make any difference anyway.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…
We Canadians are all so busy trying to find out what U.S. channel to watch the next back-to-back “CSI” rerun marathon on our state of the art government-subsidized digital cable set top boxes, that we can’t be bothered to walk down the street and cast our vote. Not even by a flip of a coin. Not even in a federal election.
On the other hand, God will not be mocked, and Canada’s bishops did, in 1968, hand the world the grave scandal of The Winnipeg Statement. 107 of 109 of the Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops (pls correct if numbers wrong) formally signed an unqualified rejection of the teaching on contraception contained in Humana Vitae leading millions around the world into grave scandal.
This C-38 is now expected to be passed Wednesday or Thursday, according to LifeSite:
lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05061704.html
This will be perhaps the darkest day in Canadian history. What people don’t seem to understand here is that quite outside the obvious question “what about the rights of children in these ‘Civil Marriage Acts’” lies the spectre of state-imposed morality.
Gay-activist judges like B.C. Supreme Court Justice Laura Gerow are conducting business as usual, making and changing any and all laws they whish in order to accommodate, the whims of homosexuals. Last week, the new B.C. Divorce Act, quietly ameneded without any debate, vote, nor involvement of legislators, now refers to married couples as ‘any two persons.’
The two women who requested this divorce were… what? “joined in The Civil Marriage Act” perhaps? For 10 months. That’s why I said ‘whim.’
What will the now-inevitable avalanche of “gay divorces” do to children forced against their wills and rights into the middle of such unions, not to mention how it will slow the overloaded legal system?
How will the state determine “consummation” of such unions under the Civil Marriage Act? Can Canada legislate the changing of definitions such as that found in the Merriam Webster dictionary for ‘conjugal rights’?
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