I don't usually blog on things in The Great White North, since my Canadian readership is very small and mostly limited to Google porn searches with the term "red stick" in them. (I really don't have a dog on that sled team. Sorry)
But sometimes, you gotta say "WTF??" and wonder what they put in the beer up there. Freedom of Speech may be an American "concept", but it used to be a Canadian one, too. Not anymore, apparently:
"This is a breathtakingly broad prohibition, which extends far beyond the terms of the (already troubling) statute. Boissoin and his group aren't allowed to saying anything "disparaging" about homosexuals, which presumably would even extend to statements such as "homosexuals are acting sinfully" or "The Bible, which I believe should be our moral guide, condemns homosexuality."
Nor can they say anything disparaging (not just anything false or threatening, but anything disparaging) about Prof. Darren E. Lund of the University of Calgary Faculty of Education, a self-described "activis[t]" for "social justice issues in schools and communities," and his witnesses, who include Prof. Kevin Alderson of the University of Calgary, and Douglas Robert Jones, a recently retired Calgary City Police Service officer who has been Liaison to the GLBT Community. I would have thought that activist university professors were proper subjects for discussion, criticism, and even disparagement — but the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission forbids Mr. Boissoin and the Concerned Christian Coalition from engaging in such speech."
So let me, as an American, exercise a God-given Right: Professor Darren, E. Lund, I think your actions show you to be intellectually incapable of defeating your opponents in open debate, and therefore have dealt with the problem like a cowardly fascist - by suppression. Professor Kevin Alderson, I think you are no better. And Douglas Robert Jones, I think as an officer of the Law in a liberal democracy, you more than anyone should know better.
Ban that, you Hosers.
3 comments:
"Hope you don't die"....AAh, nothing like the Classics.
Thanks
If it helps any, there has been some discussion of reining in the various "human rights tribunals" up there in the great white north.
Being a civil libertarian, I think they should just eliminate the whole 'hate speech' concept, disband the commissions and ban the former employees of said commissions (include the commissioners themselves) from ever being employed by any branch of the government other than landfill maintenance and garbage pickup.
But I'm a wild eyed idealist that way.
Matthew, I think you're being overly cruel to Canadian landfills and garbage.
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