Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
40 Days for Life, November 3, 2024 Closing Rally
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Christian pregnancy counselling under fire - National Post - TERRY NEWMAN Comment · 31 Oct 2024
National Post Thu, 31 Oct 2024
Christian pregnancy counselling under fireTERRY NEWMAN Comment · 31 Oct 2024
http://epaper.nationalpost.com/article/281509346687779
WEBSITE LETS VISITORS KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOT A MEDICAL CLINIC.
The Liberals are playing wedge politics again. They’ve released yet another in a long line of official attempts-tosave-their-arse announcements. This time, they’re letting Canadians know that they’ve had enough of pregnancy counselling centres that provide information about abortion — regardless of their faith — but do not offer referrals for the procedure or disclose that fact. No more charitable tax status for you!, the Liberals announced. Unless these clinics give in and go against their religious beliefs, or advertise openly that they won’t.
The announcement from Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was so strange that when I first read about it, I had no idea what they were talking about.
The issue she described sounded so pervasive, so serious and important. The truth of the matter, as is often the case with the Liberals, is entirely different.
Yet, the background of the official statement makes the situation sound dire: “Concerns have been raised that some registered charities that offer reproductive health services to women, including pregnancy options counselling, may be spreading misinformation by presenting themselves as neutral, full-service pregnancy support service organizations when they are in fact anti-choice organizations that push women away from accessing the reproductive care of their choice.”
The Liberals are suggesting that this is happening to women, yet this serious announcement was not accompanied by facts or figures about the severity of this problem that supposedly requires the revocation of charitable status. And, as we all know, the Liberals are great at proposing answers to problems that don’t actually exist.
So, what are these faith based clinics like, anyway? Since the Liberal government did not provide a list of serious offenders and offences, I went looking myself.
I found Pregnancy Care Centre, whose website says they have served over 15,000 women over 40 years, assumedly without issue. It mentions Christ, and its stated mission is to “provide compassionate community support to women and families facing an unexpected pregnancy so that they can thrive without seeing abortion as their only option.” What absolute monsters!
Right away, their website lets visitors know that they are not a medical clinic, and that they do not provide or assist in arranging abortions. Well then, that would save someone who was actually looking for an abortion some time, it would seem.
While I haven’t investigated all clinics, this one certainly isn’t representing itself as neutral. Despite the site’s faith-based declaration, the clinic does provide information and counselling about abortion, but does not specifically offer referrals for abortions. The Liberals are likely not impressed, though, because, let’s face it, this clinic’s approach is Christian. The Liberals don’t seem to care much for their churches either. Coincidence? I think not.
I’m not convinced that the alleged shadowy cabal of anti-choice pregnancy centres that spurred Tuesday’s government announcement even exists.
Here’s the thing. There are obviously women out there who can read websites, are Christian, and want this kind of approach. What does it say about this Liberal government that they would like to take faith-based pregnancy counselling away from them?
http://epaper.nationalpost.com/article/281509346687779
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Mass at Saint Patrick Basilica and 40 Days for Life, October 30, 2024
Pat and I went to mass at beautiful Saint Patrick Basilica this morning before going to pray at the at the abortion site. After mass Dennis and Angelina installed the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Cape
See video below
I received this photo from Lois later on
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Doug Ford Continues to Perpetuate DEI
From PAFE https://www.pafe.ca/
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are three words that should send shivers down your spine. While individuals and families in Ontario are waking up to the damage inflicted by DEI, Doug Ford’s government continues to double down and barrel forward.
We’d like to point your attention back to the tragic story of former Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal Richard Bilkszto who committed suicide in 2021 after being bullied by TDSB’s contracted DEI and anti-racism initiatives, and was publicly humiliated and bullied for two long years in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. A formal review of the circumstances leading up to his death was never performed.
Do you recall the controversial TDSB field trip-turned-political-protest? Parents were told their children (some as young as eight years old) were going to witness (and not engage with) a “community event” that was meant to bring awareness to the mercury poisoning on Grassy Narrows Indigenous community. Instead, students were encouraged by their teachers to participate in a pro-Palestine protest which included anti-Semitic chanting “From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime.” Some students were told to wear blue shirts to identify them as colonizers, and others came home with “Zionist Kills” stickers. In the TDSB there have been several complaints of anti-Semitism within the school board in the name of DEI. This specific incident, certainly wouldn’t have helped matters, seeing as many of the Jewish children on this field trip expressed feeling unsafe and uncomfortable.
Parents of the students on this field trip were rightfully upset, however no teachers were disciplined, and the TDSB trustees were hesitant to allow a review of this incident.
We acknowledge that these are two very different issues, but the root is the same pervasive rot: the radical agenda of DEI. Wherever it goes, discrimination, racism, and bullying seem to follow. Is this a coincidence or is this one of the fundamental issues with DEI?
Where does Doug Ford fit into all of this? The examples above are just a couple of many DEI-induced issues within TDSB. The Ford government continues to have the opportunity to reform DEI’s deep-rooted toxicity, but they choose to continue to perpetuate it instead. Why is it allowed to still wreak havoc on Ontario’s schools?
Patrick Case, former Minister of Education Chief Equity Officer for Kathleen Wynne was the man hired by the Ford government, to conduct a review of the TDSB field trip incident. He had a hand in introducing critical race theory and DEI ideology into Ontario’s curriculum. Patrick Case works closely with Colleen Russell-Rawlins, the TDSB education director who signed off on hiring Kike Ojo-Thompson, the race activist who bullied Richard Bilkszto in two separate anti-racism sessions in the spring before his death. Why is Doug Ford recycling Kathleen Wynne’s henchmen to fix an issue started by her?
Quite frankly – Doug Ford needs to fix his government’s mess. He needs to repeal the woke sex-ed, gender theory, and DEI that his government perpetuates in our schools. It’s absurd and careless to appoint someone like Patrick Case, to solve an issue that he directly helped to cause in the first place.
When will Doug Ford stop pandering to the far-left ideologies and start putting Ontario’s families first?
Friday, October 25, 2024
40 Days for Life, Ottawa - October 25, 2024
