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Canada: New Vacation Destination for Pedophiles
By on December 28, 2005
I read this post on the Cannuckistan Chronicles about a WND article. I take WND with a large grain of salt, however the basic facts are backed up in this CNN article.
In a landmark decision Wednesday, the
Supreme Court of Canada lifted a ban on swingers’ clubs, ruling thatgroup sex among consenting adults is neither prostitution nor a threat to society.
The WND article points out the not-unrelated fact that the age of consent in Canada is 14. Yes, that’s right – FOURTEEN. Not a typo. As long as alcohol is not sold on the premises, children 14 years old can legally engage in group sex with adults in Canada. Interesting that the MSM reports on this landmark decision don’t mention that. [I find it pertinent but then I guess I'm just a redneck wing-nut who is poor, uneducated and easy to command. I also find it fascinating that the same government that decrees my daughter cannot legally have her ears pierced without my consent is entitled to an abortion without even my knowledge, much less consent. The same liberals who promoted the meme since the war began that our military is largely comprised of children ripped from their homes by sneaky recruiters support these kinds of adult activities for actual children, too young to hold a job, legally drink or smoke, vote or join the military. In fact, too young to live without adult supervision of some sort. A 14 year old found living alone would be put in foster care, even in uber-liberal Canada.]
Lifesite has a good writeup of this decision. This is sad and sickening. And if the trends continue, we’ll be seeing a movement for this sort of thing here in America sometime in the next decade too. In the meantime, thanks to a court decision, pedophiles now have legal access to Canadian kids.
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By on December 27, 2005
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Christmas – the REST of the story.
By on December 25, 2005
Amy Welborn had a great reminder for us on what was really going on when Jesus was born. It was a lot more than a cute blonde blue eyed baby in a manger being stared at adoringly by people from all walks of life.
The really traditional Christian remembrance of the Nativity is not about sweetness. It is about awe, fear, and trembling, and it is shot through with hints of suffering to come.
Mary, with a scandalous pregnancy. Joseph, courageous enough to take her on despite it. A birth among farm animals. The threat of death, from the very start, necessitating flight. Mary, told by the prophet Simeon that because of her son, her soul will be pierced by a sword (Luke 2:35).
We view the elements of the story in a nostalgic haze — how sweet to be born with the goats. But is it? Is it sweet? Would you want to give birth among goats?
How charming that Mary and Joseph had to wander before and after the birth of the child. Charming until you remember the reasons why, the doors shut in the face of a heavily pregnant woman, the threat of death from a jealous king.
Look at it closely, with clear eyes. At every turn in this story of this baby there is threat and fear and powers circling, attempting to strike at the light.
We might forget, we might wrap up Christmas in good cheer, but Christian tradition doesn’t. It’s striking that the next day — the very next day — after Christmas, the Church remembers not glad tidings, angels, and shepherd boys, but a bloody death by stoning. St. Stephen it is, the first Christian martyr.
St. Stephen is followed by St. John on December 27th, who may not have met a violent death, but who, the tradition tells us, died in a prison of sorts, in exile for his faith, far away from the “civilized” powers that had sent him there.
December 28th brings us back to babies, but with no relief — it is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, remembering the children Herod ordered slaughtered, according to Matthew’s gospel, in his rabid fear of the rival king.
The message is clear and hard: Following this baby, as he reaches to us from the resin manger, looking out at us with the soft-eyed cattle and docile sheep, comes at a price.
There is an edge to Christmas, a harshness, and a different kind of promise than that implied by the easy words of peace and glad tidings. It is a mystery, all of it. The Word made flesh indeed, but into a world that was from the beginning set against it, that sought with every bit of strength at hand to stay in the darkness. …
Glad tidings of comfort and joy, and Merry Christmas indeed. But without awareness of the risk of discipleship, and the reality that the baby in the manger ends up hanging on a cross, those words have about as little power to change the world as “Happy Holidays.”
God bless you and your family this Christmas!
