Essays: 2. How Changing the Definition of Marriage Threatens Our Youth
Thousands in Canada rallied in defence of marriage, sensing that we had come to some sort of crossroads over this issue. Canadians had reason to be concerned. The debate over the definition of marriage is more than academic. It is virtually certain that those who have lobbied for same-sex “marriage” will insist that schools be compelled to portray such homosexual unions as marriages, equal in every way to traditional marriages. Already, prior to Parliament's changing the legal definition of marriage, the Supreme Court of Canada had in effect, in the case of Chamberlain versus the Surrey School Board, ordered the favourable portrayal of families headed by same-sex couples.
If the highest court in the land could find a mandate for such a favourable portrayal when there was not a sentence in law giving them actual approval, how much easier it will be to justify ordering that teachers present those unions as actual marriage when by the authority of the state same-sex couples have been declared to be married.
When on May 1st of 2003 the Appeals Court of British Columbia ruled that same-sex couples could be married, the reactions of homosexual couples to that ruling revealed a good deal about the reason for the big push for same-sex “marriage.” 1 For example, one couple (according to The Globe and Mail*) said they were “. . . pleased that the court recognized the equality of heterosexual and homosexual relationships.” One of the partners said, “Hopefully, having equality will give the message to society that this is okay, that this is not something wrong, deviant, scary or evil. These are just loving relationships, with all their flaws and imperfections . . . that any other relationship has.” 2 In other words, this couple hailed the decision of the BC Appeals Court endorsing same-sex “marriage” because the law is a teacher, and they wanted it to teach approval of their particular type of relationship. That approval was given by courts in Ontario and British Columbia, and was given by the parliament of Canada when it passed a law stating that same-sex couples can be married.
Of course the Canadian public should realize that Canada is a country where there has been no bar to homosexual relationships. And those in such relationships who wanted to, had nothing to stop them from staging their own ceremonies and proclaiming that their unions were marriages without getting a certificate from the government. Anyone can say an apple is an orange or that a sow’s ear is a silk purse. But they should not be able to force others to applaud. What the pro-homosexuality activists wanted was to have the government on behalf of all of us put its stamp of approval on their unions. And that is something government should not have done.
There is a frightening spirit of totalitarianism evident in the pro-homosexuality movement. This spirit would lead them to force upon the children of objecting parents a program of propaganda that presents homosexual behaviour as just another alternative life-style—even an attractive alternative lifestyle. Parents whose morality forbids homosexuality and parents who are concerned about the medical consequences of homosexual behaviour, and citizens who care about parental rights have a responsibility to say “No” to this totalitarian movement before it is too late.
We should realize that a very predictable result of the recognition of same-sex marriage will be further pressure for the indoctrination of the young in the schools of our land. We have no right to stand idly by as this happens. One good reason for opposing the recognition of same-sex unions as marriage was the fact that we have a responsibility to the children and youth of this country. That is a good reason for continuing to oppose it and for taking steps to guard the youth of Canada against the consequences of that recognition now that it has come about.
--Ted Hewlett
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1 This and the next paragraph are adapted from the essay entitled “Activists for Same-Sex Marriage Want Not Tolerance` But a Stamp of Approval.” The essay has been published on the BCPTL website “Marriage” page.
2 Quoted in The Globe and Mail, May 2, 2003, Section A, P. 4, "We know it does make a difference.”
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The Surrey School Board decision was not what you portray. The Supreme Court did not say how same sex couples must be portrayed. They said that a public school board cannot ban a book for religious reasons. Seperation of church and state. A basic principle of democratic western countries.
Wayne Fowler
I think that the lawyer Gwen Landolt in her analysis posted on the BCPTL website (at http://www.bcptl.org/gay.htm#Landolt) answers your statement. I will quote her:
"The Surrey School Board examined the books, and declined to include them as supplementary educational material on the grounds that the books were inappropriate for such young children, and that their use would interfere with the rights of parents as the primary educators of their children, and would also undermine the relationship between home and school.
"However, Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin, on behalf of the majority, stated in paragraphs 10 – 25 of her judgement, that parental views cannot override the necessity of public schools to mirror the diversity of the community and teach tolerance to children. She further stated that the decision about whether to approve the three books had a human rights dimension, and that the “courts are well placed to resolve human rights issues.” According to Madam Justice McLachlin, the legislature “intended a relatively robust level of court supervision requiring not a rigid and sometimes jurisdictional approach, but a more flexible functional and pragmatic approach to the issue.” She then raised the question as to whether the courts have expertise equal to or better than the local board relative to the particular human rights issue in the case. She answered her question in the affirmative by concluding that since s. 76 of the BC School Act required “tolerance” and “diversity”, this required the acceptance of all family models."
According to The Public Health Agency Of Canada Hiv and AIDS in Canada Surveillance Report April 2006 on page 60 we read that 85 percent of AIDS in Canada is in males who have sex with males. Gay Bowel Syndrom,a well documented collection of bowel diseases that lead to the mechanical dysfunction of the lower bowel tract is ENDemic in the homosexual population. This is certainly not just another healthy and normal alternative lifestyle as taught in our BC's Public Schools to children. Children believe that whatever is legal and imposed by our government is good. Changing the definition of marriage is harmful to our children and society.
Three Parent case. In that case an Ontario judge ruled that a five-year-old child was the legal offspring of the father, biological mother and the mother's lesbian partner.
The court has refused to hear any appeal of the 2006 case which means that, not only the legal institution of marriage but the biological nature of the family has been overturned by the Canadian courts.
It is very unfortunate that the children's rights issues raised by that case will not be heard on appeal. An issue which should have been addressed by "legislatures" now remains a matter of judicial intervention.
The Canadian courts NOT ONLY INTERPRET THE LAWS WHICH LEGISLATORS HAVE MADE,BUT THEY MAKE NEW LAWS that Legislators have not made. The courts are now allowed to undermine DEMOCRACY by our liberal-minded governments that are elected by liberal-minded citizens! The public ought to take back that control because in a democracy the citizens elect the government they deserve.
Some Canadians are "perturbed" to find out that husbands can claim welfare benefits for multiple wives in Ontario. Madeleine Meilleur, minister of community and social services, responded to a report from the Canadian Society of Muslims that estimated that "several hundred" men in the Greater Toronto Area are in polygamous marriages and are receiving welfare payments for their multiple wives. Bigamy remains illegal in Canada and the rules officially bar applicants for welfare from claiming for more than one spouse at this time.
Meilleur is quoted by the Ottawa Citizen February 9, saying, "Not knowing the law is not an excuse. They should know that in Canada there is no polygamy and that only one wife is covered."
That is until our courts make a new law to allow this practice in Canada as well. After all we don't want to discriminate against Muslims. Perhaps the liberal minded will start to teach this practice as healthy and normal too in BC public schools,because it fits into Kinsey's "science".
In Britain, however, the rules directly allow claims for multiple wives, after a year long government review of the system. Ministers admit that they have no "exact record" of how many such arrangements are active in Britain or how much money the payouts will ultimately cost the government. A Muslim man with the maximum of four spouses permitted under Islamic law could receive £10,000 a year in income support alone.
Changing the definition of marriage
and teaching unhealthy lifestyles as healthy and normal in public schools threatens Western Civilization. We become a country like the ones our parents left to find a just and better life in Canada.
On Valentine's day, a group of women stood inside the doorway of a elementry school handing out small bags of heart-shaped candy. Was it a group of concerned parents helping out with the festivities you may ask?
No, it was an aggresive Lesbian homosexual-rights activist group. Along with the candy they handed out leaflets that said, LESBIANS ARE EVERYWHERE ! GIRLS WHO LOVE GIRLS AND WOMEN WHO LOVE WOMEN ARE OK ! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !
Some parents were outraged. And no wonder. The children who received the candy and leaflets were only elementary school children. They came home confused and upset. One little girl said to her mother,"Nancy is my best friend and I love her. Does that make me a Lesbian ?" Parents found themselves forced to explain the difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality to children too young to be burdened with such detailed sexual information. It's not fair for someone to rob our children of their innocence at public school. Most disturbing is the determination of the liberal-minded to push kids into sexual knowledge and even sexual activity at an ever younger age. Of course, introducing youngsters to exploitive sexuality is always couched in terms of defending their rights.
Of cource,children are too young to be capable of asserting any kind of rights. So all this talk about children's rights really means, Lets get children out from under their parent's protection so they can be approached by gays and other adults.
Today,with the help of liberal-minded politicians,judges and the Teachers Federation gay groups are starting to admit openly that this is their real agenda. When the Lesbians came to school, they were wearing T-shirts emblazoned with a simple slogan: WE RECRUIT ! Obviously they had no scruples about recruiting even small elementary-school children.
This is frightening,but what's really disturbing is that the language used by gay groups is exactly the same as the language used by mainstream sex-educators. This is the Alfred C.Kinsey "science" that is taught to teachers in our Humanist universities to teach to our public school children.This is dangerous stuff,and it shows that gays are part of the most explosive aspect of the culture war the debate over the purpose and meaning of sexuality, of families, and of childhood.
Citizens need to make it absolutely clear that they will not elect liberal-minded politicians. Parents have the responsibility for bringing up and protecting their children even when they are in BC public schools. As noted above the democratic western countries are no longer Christian but are Humanist and teach Humanist "science",logic and religion to our children and these humanists are not teaching anything resembling neutral scholarship.
Our youth and Western society are threatened by liberal Goverment's, meaning all of the liberal-minded governments, "imposition" of only the Humanist Worldview and Religion in our "Public Schools and Universities." Not that long ago Western society was Christian. Now through our education establishments it has become Humanist.Please study Humanist Manifesto one and two and see how the so-called fathers of western education did this.
If someone is headed off a cliff, the compassionate response is to try to stop him, not allow him to fall and then offer to treat his injuries.
According to Health Canada's HIV and AIDS surveillance report for April 2006 on page 60, we read that eighty- five percent of AIDS in Canada is in MALES WHO HAVE SEX WITH MALES. Then there is Gay Bowel syndrom, a collection of diseases of the bowel tract that lead to the mechanical dysfunction of the lower bowel tract that include amebiasis,giardasis,salmonellosis, hepatitis A and B,tuberculosis,sypilis,etc. These are ENDemic in the homosexual population. The homosexual lifestyle is not healthy,ok,and normal as the liberal-minded teach our children in PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES!
Legalizing homosexual marriage, promoting it, and teaching falsely that it is healthy and normal to our children in BC Public School Class-Rooms and Universities ought to be a criminal offence.
It is the hight of compassion for people to unite to oppose this societal disaster with its litany of pain and suffering before it is too late.
We have already seen that the liberal-minded Governments,Teachers Federations,Universities and popular media's positive portrayal of homosexuality has enticed many young people into this harmful behavior. With Government sanction, promotion and imposition of homosexual marriage and Humanist worldview and religion in BC Public Schools from kindergaten , many more will be drawn into this destuctive lifestyle. Many people are "educated" to believe what is legal is moral!
We as Social Conservatives care about people, but don't accept false ideas as true or their destructive behavior as moral.
Contrary to liberal relativism and humanist wisdom, not all ideas and lifestyles are equally true, or beneficial.
Yet the kind of tolerance demanded in today's liberal education establishments which "educate" our society tells us that we must tolerate everything, even destructive behavior,legalize it and then teach it to our children as healthy and normal from Kindergarten through University with our money. But of course, we must never tolerate destructive behavior.
Tolerating,legalizing,and imposing destructive behavior is unloving because it harms innocent children and destroys lives.
Through reasoned debate, using verifiable evidence, we must defeat harmful ideas and bad legislation while we show love and respect to people promoting them. Perhaps if enough people come on board we can make our Canada a safer place for children and people of all ages.
OF coarse Darwinism is a religion look up HUMANIST MANIFESTO 1 (1933) and 2 (1973). In 1978 Humanist educator Herbert Otto edited the first Bible of sex educators, "THE NEW SEX EDUCATION", and said their highest prioity must be given to teaching the teachers, via sexual attitude restructuring university certification programs. Many of the original contributors to this key work were also signatories to either HUMANIST MANIFESTO 1 OR 2. Canadians should know what this manifesto preaches.
It clearly sums up the entire philosophy of Darwinian Humanism , and it has been signed by hundreds of influential educators and political dignitaries, such as The Fathers of Western Education,John Dewey, Isaac Asimov, Sir Herman Bondi,Professor Sidney Hook, Sir Alfred Ayer, B.F.Skinner, Sir Julian Huxley, Betty Friedan, Gunnar Myrdal, Professor Lester Kirkendall, Alan Guttmacher, Canadian Dr.Henry Morgentaler past president of the "HUMANIST ASSOCIATION OF CANADA". The signatories refer to themselves as "RELIGIOUS HUMANISTS".
The essence of this "REIGION" is worship of man himself. The "Man-god". If we keep teaching our kids humanism from elementary school through university without the balance of (ID)Intelligent Design Theory they will be"educated" to become hard wired humanist liberals.
The liberal Humanist academic world,but not so the conservative academic world, is rocked by the news that a prominent atheiist has changed his mind.For the past half century,the name of professor Antony Flew was virtually synonymous with atheism.What brought such an entrenched atheist to change his mind? The scientific case for Intelligent Design Theory(ID).Investigation of DNA has shown,by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life,that intelligence must have been involved.Though atheist colleages were outraged by his change of mind,Flew replied calmly,"My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates:Follow the evidence,wherever it leads." Intelligent Design Theory(ID),also ought to be taught to students from elementary school through university.Teaching students the religion of Godless humanism "only"changes Western Civilization into something worse.Look around you,this is not the safe place that it was when we were kids.
To help people who are "educated" in our societies Politically Correct Darwinian Humanist Education Establishments to become atheists by professors who thought like he once was "educated" to think; Anthony Flew wrote a book,Harper San Francisco 2007 titled," There is a God:How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind."
Flew presents both sides of the argument and follows the evidence to God. That is what our youth need not unhealthy lifestyles like homosexual marriage and promiscuity taught as healthy alternative ways to live in our public schools and universities.
This not only threatens our youth but all of our society because we all go to public schools and universities.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s HIV and AIDS Surveillance Report for April 2006 on page 60, we read that eighty- five percent of AIDS in Canada is in MALES WHO HAVE SEX WITH MALES.
Then there is Gay Bowel syndrom, a collection of diseases of the bowel tract that lead to the mechanical dysfunction of the lower bowel tract that include amebiasis, giardasis, salmonellosis, hepatitis A and B, tuberculosis, and sypilis,etc. These are ENDemic in the homosexual population. Sodomy is legal in Canada. My dictionary defines sodomy as, unnatural sexual intercourse, esp. of one man with another or a human being with an animal.
The homosexual lifestyle is not healthy, as the liberal-minded teach and mold the minds of our children and generations of Canadian citizens to believe in our PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES , AND LAW COURTS ! Remember that we all go through and have our minds molded by our education establishments.
Don’t you think that this kind of social engineering is diabolical ? I have used the above information to prove that the university text-books are lying to Canadian students, some of whom go on to become judges, journalists and all of our other professions.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada’s HIV and AIDS Surveillance Report for April 2006 on page 60, we read that eighty- five percent of AIDS in Canada is in MALES WHO HAVE SEX WITH MALES.
Then there is Gay Bowel syndrom, a collection of diseases of the bowel tract that lead to the mechanical dysfunction of the lower bowel tract that include amebiasis, giardasis, salmonellosis, hepatitis A and B, tuberculosis, and sypilis,etc. These are ENDemic in the homosexual population. Sodomy is legal in Canada. My dictionary defines sodomy as, unnatural sexual intercourse, esp. of one man with another or a human being with an animal.
The homosexual lifestyle is not healthy, as the liberal-minded teach and mold the minds of our children and generations of Canadian citizens to believe in our PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES , AND LAW COURTS ! Remember that we all go through and have our minds molded by our education establishments.
Don’t you think that this kind of social engineering is diabolical ? I have used the above information to prove that the university text-books are lying to Canadian students, some of whom go on to become judges, journalists and all of our other professions.
As Dostoevsky pointed out," Destroy a man's belief in immortality and not only will his ability to love wither away but, along with it, the force that impels him to continue his existence on earth. Moreover, nothing would be immoral then, everything would be permitted, even changing the definition of marriage.
This is what institutionalized atheism has done to Canadian and Western Civilization through our mind-molding education establishments.Canada and the West have thus become countries of easily led, Politically Correct Moral Relativists,whose minds are always in a fog.
The task for those whose minds can still reason in this institutionalized atheism,that is also protected by blasphemy laws imposed by our courts,is to restore common sense. Common sence has become very uncommon.
Slumbering traditionalists are awakening to find themselves surrounded and their children captured by our Darwinian Humanist Atheist education establishments, and through them our Western Civilization. By teaching children and young adults an entirely pagan sexual ethic than their parents hold, a wedge is driven that makes our kids vulnerable to unhealthy ideas. Homosexuality has been taught to become a valid healthy alternative lifestyle with imposed and protected minority status. Even in spite of the fact that according to the Public Health Agency of Canada HIV and AIDS Surveillance Report 85 percent of AIDS in Canada is in Males who have sex with males. There is no better way to destroy the family than to undermine the sexual exclusivity on which life-long marriage is based. When the family collapes through our education establishments where our lawyers, judges and citizens are educated the country is wide open to cultural revolution.
Dr. Maria Crenshaw, asked 800 sexologists at the World Congress of Sexology, “If you had available the partner of your dreams, and knew that person carried the HIV virus would you rely on a condom for protection ?”
Not a single person raised a hand !
So she accused them all of giving irresponsible advice to youth.
Condoms have an overal failure rate for preventing pregnancy of ten percent and even a higher rate in the prevention of AIDS transmission because the virus is so small. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health did high-powered X-ray examinations of latex surgical gloves similar to condom latex and found lots of holes 5 microns in diameter. The AIDS virus is 0.1 microns, and can pass through such so-called” protective ” latex without even touching the sides of the hole.
There are 47 African countries listed on the HIV and AIDS surveillance report and they combined have just slightly more cases than one North American Country the USA. The USA has the highest HIV and AIDS rate in the whole world.
Why do you suppose that is?
Political Science professor J.Budziszewski states,” A final reason for feeling that one has landed on another planet is that colleges and universities are magnets for extreme beliefs, ideologies and cults. At one school campus feminists protested sex discrimination by marching into town topless ( Take that you sexists!) At another, homosexuals sponsored an outdoor gay “kiss-in”. An Art professor lists on her resume that she tied herself to another artist with a rope for a year. ( She said they never touched.) A Social Science professor, offers a course every year on creating your own reality. ( He says it is very practical.) The sheer weirdness of the new environment puts some students into culture shock.”
I have also quoted my mentor professor Tom Landers often. Our Darwinian Humanist Atheist education establishments have turned Western Civilization Godless while traditionalists slumber. I think it is time to wake up and be counted.
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