Playing the Indian Card

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Of Lust, Pride, and Other Deadly Sins



The subtle dignity of a Gay Pride parade.

A piece by Graham Thompson in the National Post and in the Edmonton Journal (and Calgary Herald) condemns some Wildrose Party members as “intolerant,” “homophobic,” and “bigoted”--Thompson’s words—for objecting to a party functionary marching in Edmonton’s “Gay Pride” parade. To be more precise, the Wildrose Legislative and Outreach Assistant, Cody Johnston, had sent out a post on Facebook asking party members to support him in a “Pride Run” for the “Institute for Sexual Minority Studies.”

Members objected that this gave the public impression that the Wildrose Party supports such things. I do not know if they used intemperate language. If so, no examples seem to have been publicly offered. The worst Johnston has offered to the public as examples are “What kind of crap is this that you’re mailing out in the name of the Wildrose party?” and “Do not give the viewers the impression that this is Wildrose approved.”

Party leader Brian Jean has since spoken out: “There is no place for hate and that kind of speech within our party. There just isn’t.”

Hate speech?

Problem. This demonstrates that the average person cannot tell the difference between tolerance and active support. If you are not prepared to openly support a position, you are now intolerant.

As the Catholic Register put it recently:

Most people today equate tolerance with approval. Therefore, when many demand or ask for “tolerance” what they really demand is approval.

Bad news for Canadian Christians still reticent about converting to Islam.

Amsterdam does itself proud.

Or anyone concerned about freedom of thought in Canada.

Both homosexual sex and pride, both promoted by such parades, are sins—not only to Christians, but to just about anybody, of any religion. So, leaving aside homosexuality, is lust. Some people currently may be of the opinion that there is nothing sinful about either lust, homosexual sex or pride, that traditional morality is in error here, but they have no business demanding that everyone else think the same. They are free to make those arguments, so long as they do so in their own name. And so long as they respect the absolute right of others to disagree.

This has nothing to do with whether homosexuals should be discriminated against by the state because of their preference for homosexual sex. A moral person would have no difficulty in accepting that this is a private matter, and the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. But that is not the issue here. The very point of the “pride” parade is to refuse to keep such things private, and to demand public endorsement.

For a party leader, public official, or party functionary to march in such a parade really ought to be offensive to most Canadians, including “homosexual” Canadians. If our instincts are now the opposite, so much the worse for our cities of the plain.




1 comment:

Suzanne Jacklin said...

It IS extremely offensive to me too! I simply do NOT understand WHY so many young people today cannot understand that one's 'sexual life' is a PRIVATE matter!?

Perhaps, it has something to do with the number of 'bedroom scenes' our 'western societies' have been subjected to over the last 30+ years, in movies & TV shows! It has now become absolutely OUTRAGEOUS!

A few years ago, I was absolutely shocked, disgusted and appalled to see footage on the 6 o'clock News, of that day's (Sunday, of course) Pride Parade in Toronto! Quite a few of the marchers were happily marching down a broad street in Toronto, TOTALLY NAKED! There were parents, with their children, standing on the sidewalk watching and cheering on the Parade!

Public nudity didn't seem to bother a single soul! This was a definite turning point for this country.

I can accept that there are people who struggle with 'same sex attraction'; but, I see NO DIFFERENCE between their situation and the situation of a heterosexual single person struggling to remain 'chaste'. Their struggles are the SAME.

Heterosexual sex (outside of marriage) AND homosexual sex ARE THE SAME SIN! The ONLY difference is that heterosexual sex is the 'natural' order; but, homosexual sex is NOT 'natural'. It is UN-natural, i.e., 'dis-ordered'.

While I CAN 'tolerate' that homosexual unions exist; I CANNOT ACCEPT the 'lifestyle' OR the concept of a homosexual 'marriage' ... and the various new 'scientific' methods they use to 'produce' children.

It is a sad and scary world we live in today.