The ever-increasing number of "Pride events" -- days, weeks, months, parades, festivals and other queer-ins -- has given rise to an increasing number of anti-gay types who are sick, sore and tired of all this "We're here, we're queer!" nonsense.
One person who has acted on his righteous indignation is a follower of the Prophet -- Abdul Ballout, a German citizen of Lebanese background -- who is now the subject of a massive manhunt in Germany after a suspected "Islamist terror attack" at a Berlin Pride event last night.
One woman is dead and at least 29 injured after a van drove into a crowd. The suspect then attacked people with a blade that "might have been a machete." [It might have been a scimitar too, but "machete" is easier to spell. Ed.]
Herr Ballout was known to die Polizei and had previously "committed a number of crimes." He is still at large, but the cops have taken several people into custody in relation to the attack, according to German media. Die Zeit reports that some of those taken into custody have now been released, while others remain in custody.
Inspector Katzenjammer of the Berlin constabulary reportedly told journalists that if police cannot assign suspicions of a crime to those detained, then they must be released within 48 hours. It's still unclear if the suspect named as Abdul Ballout is believed to have acted alone, or with accomplices.
Equally unclear, to hear the cops tell it, is the motive for the attack. But, warns the German Minister of the Interior, "We cannot rule out the possibility of copycat attacks."
An angry German Chancellor Fred Merz (pictured) added that extremists "have no place in our society", vowing to do everything in the government's power to see justice served.
UPDATE ADDED 27/7/26 @ 0515 FMT: Die Polizei found the killer yesterday, hiding in a shed in the Spandau district of Berlin. They shot and killed him. No trial.
One bleeding heart liberal has already commented that this shows why we need Pride Parades. Well, it does get `em all together in one place so you can attach them en masse, if you are so inclined.
Earlier today we reported on a charge of bestiality which has been laid against one Seth Christian, a British Columbia man who was caught mounting a horse in an unnatural way. Bestiality is an act of sodomy, a word more often used to describe homosexual acts between men.
The sin of sodomy -- unnatural sexual acts, contrary to nature -- is proscribed by all three Abrahamic religions. In Catholic tradition, the four sins that "cry to heaven for vengeance" (peccata clamantia) are grave actions that call for divine justice due to their extreme malice. These sins are: willful murder, the sin of Sodom, oppression of the poor, and defrauding labourers of their wages.
As Walt wrote in one of our first posts, way back in 2009, homosexual acts are clearly and firmly condemned in the Holy Bible. Look at the story of Sodom and Gommorah in the 19th chapter of Genesis. Those cities were notorious hotbeds of homosexuality.
Genesis 19:5-7 (DRV): "They called Lot and said to him, 'Where are the men that came in to thee at night? Bring them out hither that we may know [have sexual relations with] them.' Lot went out to them...and said, 'Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren; do not commit this evil.'"
But they did, and received their punishment. Genesis 19:24-26: "the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he destroyed these citie4s, and all the counry about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all the things that spring from the earth. And [Lot's] wife, looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt."
How quickly we forget. This week the Jerusalem Post reported that, this coming June, Israel is set to host the Middle East's largest ever LGBT festival at the Dead Sea.
The new festival, dubbed "Pride Land", intends to transform the middle of the Judean desert into a colourful pride city.
The event intends to create an experience broader than parties or performances, instead aiming for a space that is alive 24 hours a day, with 15 hotels, beach complexes, parties, and a central performance arena all operating around the cock.
Alongside the nightlife, Pride Land will have cultural and art complexes, relaxation and scenic areas, and family-friendly areas with children's activities, family-friendly workshops, and customized events. Sounds simply swell, doesn't it?
"This is not just another festival, it's the biggest thing we've done here," explained (((Aaron Cohen))), main producer and initiator of the festival. If God is sufficiently angered, Pride Land may well be the lastthing they ever do there. As judges say, there is a precedent.
Cazart! Who said that?! None other than our old friend, Dr Taylor Marshall, one of the leading advocates for traditional Catholicism. But fear not. Dr Marshall has not converted to Francis' New Church of the World Order. In this video he is just discussing the optics of the appointment by Pope Leo XIV of Ramón Bejarano as the new bishop of Monterey CA.
What's wrong with that? In this video, Dr Marshall discusses the new bishop's celebration of an “All are Welcome LGBT Pride” Mass, at which a drag kween activist was permitted to speak. What are we to think of a church in which "sin doesn't matter any more"?
How can we look to people like these to show us the path to salvation, when they, by their actions and blatant rejection of the teachings of Holy Mother Church and the Commandments of God, have condemned themselves to eternal separation from God, to hell!?
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This is a long video, over an hour. Before you decide you haven't got time to listen, read a few lines from the transcript.
3:23: ...when you bring up to the pulpit or the ambo those who advocate
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for teachings that are contrary to the Catholic Faith, you are featuring them.
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You are promoting them and you are eroding Catholic belief, morality and
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identity and we are done.
Now that doesn't mean leave the Catholic
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you stay in the Catholic Church. We've had troubles before. We have troubles
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now. And the problem right now is there's this permissive attitude that we
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can wink at sin and bring it into the pulpit and bring it into the mass and highlight it
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and pretend that sin doesn't matter anymore.
...I believe modernist heretical liberal
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clergy, whatever you want to call them, I don't think they have supernatural faith. I don't think that they believe
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that the grace of baptism and confirmation can transform a sinful person,
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a person who is living a disordered lifestyle that the grace of Jesus Christ... can actually transform that person out of
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their disordered habits and lifestyle....
...this person who
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was in the pulpit during the mass, Nicole Murray Ramirez... I don't think people really realize who this person is. This is that person
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at mass. This is that person in their drag outfit. Notice they got the cross on.
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But if you go to Wikipedia and check that out here, here is also
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the drag queen. Nicole Murray Ramirez is a Lmento [???] activist and frequent San Diego
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city committee appointee known as Empress Nicole the Great.
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Queen Mother of the Americas with the imperial court system of which
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she is the titular leader....
This person
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says that he or she is the queen mother
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and the empress of Americas.
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That's sacrilege. That's evil. Why? you know, let's just be Catholic
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and just go off the truth. I knew it was offensive to pious ears
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because my ears burned when I when I heard that....
Pope Pius XII 6:53
of blessed memory declared that Our Lady of Guadalupe was the empress of Americas in 1945,
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not this person.... 7:19
Pope St. John Paul II in 1999 proclaimed Our Lady Guadalupe as
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patroness of the Americas, empress of Latin America, and protector of unborn
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children. And we know that if you watch my videos, the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Queen Mother.
So why is this person
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dressing up in this way? Look over here. Look, born 1940. Other names, Empress
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Nicole the Great. Queen Mother of the Americas, Empress, Queen Mother. What is
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going on here?... 8:12
Nicole Marray Ramirez has been a Latino and gay activist for 45 years, serving in roles in the national chair of Leggo and the national
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chair of Stonewall 25. Stonewall, if you're a Catholic, you need to look into that.
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And and the only gay activist in the country who has been elected to all four national boards on the Marches on DC. He
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was also elected chair of the Millennium March. He is the past state chair of the Equality California.
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He served four-year term on the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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He takes the title of Queen Mother.
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It's been grand marshal for the parade for on its 30-year anniversary.
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And he is the founder. Okay, this is the person that mass tall brought up [???] by the new bishop. All
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right. Pope Leo just appointed this guy as a new bishop in Monterey and and this
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is what he's this is what he's bringing into the Mass.
Warning from Ed.: When you watch this on YouTube, do not, repeat DO NOT look to their transcript to clarify something you hear Dr Marshall say but are not certain that you heard it correctly. The YouTube transcript is AI slop, generated by a machine that knows nothing about the Catholic Faith or the words we use to talk about our Church and our Faith. I have copied the few lines above just to give you the flavour of Dr Marshall's talk, and even so have had to indicate with [???] words or phrases that I think are incorrectly transcribed. Rewind the tape (so to speak) and listen for yourself.
Today we're pleased to present a mash-up [How about "Editor's cut"? Ed.] of a recent "Underground" vlog from Remnant TV, featuring our traditional Catholic friend, Michael J. Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper. If, after you've watched the clips, you want to see the whole thing (run time 41:12), just click on the link.
The video is Mr Matt's response to the election of Pope Leo XIV. Is he a "traditionalist"? (asks Mr Matt) No, he’s not. Will he denounce the revolution of Vatican II? Likely not. So, what hope is there for a reversal -- or at least a halt -- to Francis' attempt to remake Holy Mother Church to conform to the Age of Woke?
Mr Matt lets us hear from a conservative (and non-Catholic) voice, that of Thomas Sowell, an American economist, economic historian, social philosopher, and political commentator. Listen carefully to his concise and precise analysis of what's wrong with the "Church of Francis".
Ed. regrets to advise that Michael Matt has learned that the clip supposedly featuring the voice of Thomas Sowell was a fake -- generated by AI. Mr Matt has deleted it from his video (the one linked above), and Walt has also deleted it from his Rumble account. AI is turning out to be a very dangerous thing. We'll be more careful about reposting videos, and trust that you, dear readers, will keep a healthy sense of skepticism... yes, even about what you see on WWW.
In his video, Mr Matt concludes that, yes, there is a glimmer of hope. No counter-revolution in sight yet, but some of the first signs of change portend a change "back to the future". Let us continue to resist.
As the New York Times article cited by Mr Matt shows, we are starting to win!
One more thing... Mr Matt got a good chuckle out of this item from Saturday Night Live.
Indeed. Catholicism is not like a cafeteria. You can't pick and choose which things you want to be believe and which items of faith or its practice you want to pass over. You have to accept all of the Faith... or none of it. As Saint Ignatius of Loyola said, "What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines."
Along with the election, a referendum was held on four LGBT questions. There was a 50% voter-turnout threshold needed for the results to be valid, which was not met with the percentage sitting at about 44% as I write this.
Nevertheless, of those 44% valid votes, here are the results:
Do you support the holding of a sexual orientation session for minor children in a public educational institution without the consent of the parent?
Yes: 7.66%, No: 92.34%
Do you support promoting gender reassignment treatments for underage children?
Yes: 4.11%, No: 95.89%
Do you support the introduction of sexual media content to minor children that affects their development without restrictions?
Yes: 4.68%, No: 95.32%
Do you support showing media to minors showing gender change?
Yes: 4.83%, No: 95.17%
What's interesting was the spoilage rate at about 20%. Leading up to the referendum, LGBT activists had encouraged voters to spoil their ballots to prevent the 50% turnout threshold from being met. Which looks like is what occurred.
And yes, Ed. found a very appropriate video: "Jordan Peterson debunks leftist gender ideology in 8 minutes". Here it is.
What's the matter with Americans and Canadians that they can't see through this liberal "woke" plot to emasculate men and destoy what's left of our Christian civilization?!
Some may think it unkind to call this person "a pig in a wig". Or offensive. Or even "abusive". But it's OK, according to the Court of Appeal of the United Kingdom!
Britain's Daily Mail reports just now on a November decision of the court in the case of Regina v. Scottow. The appellant, Kate Scottow, from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, had been found guilty earlier this year under the 2003 Communications Act of addressing Sterfanie Hayden, a "transgendered woman" as a man, and calling him/her a "racist" and a "pig in the wig."
[I don't know which personal pronoun to use here. Ed.] Hayden, 47, reported the online remarks to the Old Bill, who duly arrested Miss Scottow at her home in front of her daughter, 10, and son, 20 months. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson later called the arrest and prosecution "an abuse of power."
District judge Margaret Dodds didn't see it that way, convicting Miss Scottow (a self-described "radical feminist") last February, and handing her two-year conditional discharge plus "compensation" of £1,000 ($1350 in real money).
Presiding over Miss Scottow's appeal, Lord Justice Bean [Was he "Mr Bean", before his elevation to the bench? Ed.] and Mr Justice Warby said, "Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having." They added that "free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another."
Mr Justice Warby explained that the relevant parts of the Communications Act "were not intended by Parliament to criminalise forms of expression, the content of which is no worse than annoying or inconvenient in nature." He also suggested that the prosecution had been an "unjustified state interference with free speech."
Lord Justice Bean said the appeal illustrated the need for decision-makers in the criminal justice system to have regard to issues of freedom of speech. The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.
The vindicated Miss Scottow told The Daily Telegraph, "It was necessary to enshrine one of the most fundamental rights of every living being in a democratic society – the right to freedom of speech that is now routinely attacked..."' But [Whatever, Ed.] Hayden said, "This is... a kick in the teeth to the entire LGBT community." Walt sez a kick in a more southerly body part would not have been out of order. Is that offensive?
The Regional Municipality of Peel, next urban sprawl west of Toronto, Canada, is a seriously screwed-up region. It consists of the Town of Caledon, which is more or less normal since it is mostly populated by rich white folks who own horses and vote for mildly conservative parties. The flatlands south of the Caledon Hills are divided into two large (for Canada) cities, Brampton and Mississauga.
The City of Brampton has been the subject of several posts on WWW. The population is about 40% black, 40% brown (Sikhs and other Indians) and maybe 20% who have not yet joined the legions of "white flees" who have moved further away from the Wormy Apple. The black folks don't vote since they're too busy appearing in court. The white folks don't vote because it won't make any difference. Why? Because the "south Asian community" -- Indians, Pakistanis, and a few Bengalis -- can be counted on to vote Liberal, resulting in the election of Sikh people like Raj Grewal, MP, mentioned here before.
The City of Mississauga is a little more diverse. There is a large South Asian community -- 95% Sikhs -- in what used to be called Malton, around YYZ (Pearson International Airport) where they are employed as baggage-wallahs and security guards. There is a vibrant Chinese community south of the 403 between Mavis and Creditview Roads. And there are some enclaves of well-to-do white people along the shore of Lake Ontario, in areas still known to oldies as Port Credit, Lorne Park and Clarkson. So, a mixed bag.
Not all "old stock Canadians" are happy about that. Consequently, there's now a certain amount of what the Liberals call "hate crime", i.e. speaking the truth about the propensity of certain racial and ethnic groups to do things like hold up convenience stores or kill their women for the sake of "honour". M-103!
But the "victims of hate crime" are not just non-Christians of colour. Oh no. There's a lot of "hate" against the LGBTQ2Setc community. That group has grown exponentially since homosexuality became fashionable, not just in the Catholic Church but in society generally, thanks to the constant glorification of the gay "lifestyle" by the pro-queer government and media. Walt is shocked to learn that some Canadians, even in Brampton and Mississauga, think that there is something wrong ["queer"? Ed.] with the LGBTQ types, and that "gender fluidity" should not be promoted in schools. What's worse, these "homophobes" sometimes speak out publicly, going so far as to hold demonstrations in favour of old-fashioned Christian morality. The horror, the horror!!!
Any mention of the social and personal problems which go along with the gay lifestyle is now verboten, of course, because to speak (or even think) against "diversity" -- including "gender diversity" -- is hate crime. And you'd better believe, dear Canadian readers, that "haters" will be tracked down, prosecuted and punished! Unless, of course, they're preaching hate aqgainst straight white Christians. That's OK.
So keen are the minions of the law -- the Peel Regional Police -- on finding and arresting the "haters" that they have formed a special squad -- the Diversity Relations unit -- to respond immediately, in numbers and with force, to occurrences such as the shouting of the N-word outside a strip club (of which Brampton and Mississauga have many). They even have their own emergency vehicles, appropriately painted in rainbow stripes. I kid you not. Here's the photographic evidence.
It is to be noted that, through a quirk of history, the PRP does not police the mostly-white Town of Caledon, only the mostly-coloured Cities of Brampton and Mississauga. So if you're a resident of Caledon, you can speak your mouth with less fear than the million-plus to the south of you. If you live in the ghettos of Brampton and Mississauga, you can feel assured... and quietly proud... that the Peel Region Police Diversity Relations team has your back, or your backside, as the case may be.
Ed. tells me to think twice about following a serious piece (see today's first post) with something silly, but this piece of loony left idiocy is so great that it must be shared immediately!
A blog (new to us) called The Caldron Pool reports that an online newsletter called HealthLine, in an article headed "Why we need an LGBTQIA-inclusive safer sex guide", claims that "health disparities" and higher rates of HIV and STIs observed in "LGBTQIA communities" [How many more letters can they add to the old "LGBT"? Ed.] are due to discrimination in the sex education world. So, the California based health information provider has adopted the gender-inclusive term "front hole" in place of the medical term, "vagina" in their latest LGBTQIA safe sex guide.
Really. [Really???!!! Ed. Looks like a hoax to me.] OK, Ed., you chase this down but it looks like the kind of thing that Dr Benjamin Levin [Is he out of jail yet? Ed.] or some other pervert might have written.
Meanwhile, Agent 78, who knows about these things, says that anatomically speaking, "front hole" is incorrect. She supplied a graphic to explain what she meant, but considerations of space preclude us from publishing it. Sorry.
The "Canada Oil Sands Community" has been quick to distance itself from the pro-oilsands ad below, posted to his Facebook page by Robbie Picard, a gay Métis Albertan. (For our non-Canadian readers, a "Métis" is a person of mixed blood -- French-Canadian and "First Nations", as we now call Indians.)
The image of two attractive women kissing offended many of the less attractive members of the LGBTQ community. The past president of Calgary Pride, Dallas Barnes, said, "In my head I can see what he's doing, but being part of that community, I'm kind of disgusted. "Sure, some girls do look like that, but it's demeaning. It sexualizes."
Defending himself, Mr Picard explained, "We are getting fuel from countries that butcher gays and lesbians — I mean, butcher them, hang them, publicly beat them. My goal has always been to include everybody, and if I've upset half the people I'm trying to reach, then the post was a fail." Errr, yeah!
For half a century we've wrestled with what to call people who are, errr, non-white. That adjective encompasses a range of hues, from "tanned" through yellow and red to brown and finally black. So we called black folks "black", and that was a problem because of "shadeism" which placed octaroons above quadroons above mulattos and so on. (In fact you don't hear any of those words any more.)
Besides, there was something pejorative about "black", or "dark-complected", not to mention "darkie" (as in toothpaste) or the N-word. So some genius came up with "African-American", which for most black Americans was as ridiculous as calling us white folks "European-Americans". And so we went back to "persons of colour", which sounds a lot like "coloured" to me. I don't know which term is politically correct now, and I don't care.
The same nomenclatural problem exists with people we used to call "queers". Not so long ago, that was pejorative term, right up there with "fairies", "faggots" and other quaint expressions we used -- yes, I admit it -- to describe homosexuals. But then the homos embraced the Q-word, as in "We're here! We're queer! Get used to it!" And so Q was added to LGBT, as in "the LGBTQ community", referring to the alleged 10% of us who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and/or otherwise queer.
But apparently five terms isn't enough for the proponents of aggressive gender ideology. The concept of "gender fluidity" -- today I'm a guy but tomorrow I might feel like a girl, or vice versa -- led to the addition of "2S", which stands for "two-spirited". It's not your physical gender, you see, but how you feel about it! Don't be surprised if Barack Hussein Obama stretches his pro-LGBT bathroom laws to include those who feel like "the other sex"... at the moment.
Would LGBTQ2S be the end of it? As recently as this January, I thought so, but I was wrong. (Lifetime pct .984.) Now the PC police have told us we can drop the "Q2S" -- perhaps because "queer" is still a loaded word and "2S" is just stupid -- but add an "I", which stands for "intersex". Seriously...
"Intersex" is how the Australian Department of Health refers to people whose sexual characteristics don't fit neatly into the "male" or "female" categories. Wikipedia tells us such people "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies. Such variations may involve genital ambiguity, and combinations of chromosomal genotype and sexual phenotype other than XY-male and XX-female. Intersex people were previously referred to as hermaphrodites, but the term has fallen out of favor as it is considered to be misleading and stigmatizing. Since 2006, intersex traits have controversially [sic] been described by medicine as disorders of sex development."
So there you have it, folks. "LGBTI" is the latest politically correct term for people we used to call "queers". Remember that as your city/state/province/country/whatever celebrates Gay Pride Day/Week/Month/Year/Whatever.
Yesterday was Be Nice To Transgendered Folks Day, or something like that, in Canada. The Canuck Prime Minister of Photo Ops, a flaming heterosexual, posed for numerous selfies with persons of indeterminate gender. And the Premier of Ontario, the first openly lesbian head of government in North America [perhaps the world? Ed.] got together with her husband... no... wife... no... [try "spouse". Ed.] got together with members of the loving LGBTQ2S community for a family portrait. Here `tis.
One of Walt's assiduous Ontarian readers sent the pic along with this note: For all my friends who live outside of Canada, the person in blue is the Liberal Premier of the Canadian Province of Ontario. The Person in grey and white is the "wife" of the Liberal Premier of the Canadian Province of Ontario. As for the rest of "The Family" - no comment! I promise I will never laugh at California again! Ontario's first family -- really brings a tear to your eye doesn't it!
Well, no. Walt's are quite dry. Had they been misted over, I would have missed the news that, to mark BNTTF Day (or whatever it was), Canada's Liberal government introduced in Parliament a bill, C-16, to add "gender identity" to that country's assorted human rights acts and codes, so that poor oppressed people who aren't happy with the way God made them can change to "the other" without fear of not being able to get a job or a house or a seat in the women's washroom!
Agent 3 points out that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has been illegal in Canada for years, but apparently the laws didn't specifically mention the transgendered crowd, so Bill C-16 is going to remedy that omission. There will be no "bathroom laws" in Canada, so everybody's happy now, except perhaps normal people. But who [or what. Ed.] is "normal" these days?
Well, maybe not the Ontario Ministry of Education (Lez Sandals, prop.) so much as the Toronto District School Board, more particularly Thorncliffe Park Public School, in the heart of Toronto's Muslim ghetto. In theory at least, Muslims take a dim view of homosexuality, gender fluidity, masturbation and the other perversions being inculcated into the minds of children as young as six (6) by the Liberal government's new sex education curriculum.
Regular readers of WWW will remember that when the curriculum was reintroduced -- after being shelved by then-premier Dalton McGuinty following an outcry from some religious groups -- it was hailed by Ms Sandals and her boss, proudly lesbian Premier Kathleen Wynne, as a necessary update for decades-old materials that did not address "the realities of children’s lives today". The ladies (?) recognized, though, that there would be opposition to the curriculum's pro-queer agenda. Ms Sandals said "I anticipate there will be members of various religions who may object to one thing or another...but the curriculum is the curriculum that will be taught in Ontario schools."
Well yes... unless the objectors happen to be Muslims. It's OK to push immoral nonsense into the Catholic schools, because the Catholics themselves don't know what to believe any more. But no bien pensant Canadian politician wants to offend Muslims! So there was much soiling of silks at Queen's Park last September when hundreds of Muslim kids were kept out of Thorncliffe Park PS in protest against the very explicit material which is to be taught.
Fast forward to this week, when the first lessons in anatomy were due to be taught. The curriculum calls for children in Grade 1 -- yes, Grade 1, age 6 -- to be taught the correct names for what Mr. Bookman* called "peepees" and "weewees" and "wawas". Thorncliffe Park Principal Jeff Crane told the meeja today that because "a number of parents" (sounds better than "hundreds") had concerns about their children being taught the words "penis" and "vagina", the school decided to offer a class where teachers covered the key issue of inappropriate touching without being specific about body parts. The idea, the educator said, was to keep kids in school this week and at least learn some of the curriculum.
"We let parents know ahead of time when the health strands for human development were being taught and, for Grade 1, that there would be one lesson where there would be discussion of body parts," he said. "They were told if learning the names of genitalia was a concern, they could write me a letter requesting a religious accommodation."
What Mr. Crane did not say was that (1) almost all of the parents requesting the "religious accomodation" are Muslim, and (2) Thorncliffe Park Public School is located in the riding represented by Premier Wynne. No pressure, then. Yet Mr. Crane held 20 sessions with more than 650 parents to go over the curriculum and to "counter misinformation circulating in the community".
In the result, about 60% of Thorncliffe Park's 300 Grade 1 students were taught the explicit curriculum, with the remaining 40% getting what Mr. Crane called "the sanitized version". Will the same choice be extended to parents at other schools in places like Markham (high concentration of Chinese) or Mississauga and Brampton (predominantly south Asian)? And what about the Catholics who are asking for the new curriculum to be adjusted to teach "sex education from a Catholic perspective"? Will any further changes be made to the liberal secular humanist propaganda? Stay tuned!
* Note from Ed.: If you don't remember Mr. Bookman, go to YouTube and search "Seinfeld + Bookman".
Let's start with a quick review of traditional Judeo-Christian teachings on homosexuality, as found in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible. The Good Book -- doesn't matter whether you consult the Douay-Rheims Version or the King James Version -- condemns homosexuality as clearly and plainly as it condemns murder, adultery, premarital sex, kidnapping, lying, idolatry and other grave sins. For chapter and version, see "Homosexuality condemned in the Word of God", WWW 9/7/09.
Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyab is the Grand Imam of Egypt's Al Azhar University, the world's leading institution of Sunni Islam. As a theologian, he has read the Bible as well as the Qu'ran. Speaking during a visit to Indonesia this week, he asked how Christian leaders who accept same-sex "marriage" will explain their position to Jesus Christ, should they be not to be sent to Hell without being given a chance to defend themselves.
Sheik al Tayyab didn't say that last part. I did. According to Agenzia Fides News, what the Grand Imam said was, "Unfortunately some Heads of Churches in the United States accept same-sex marriages. I wonder what is left of the Bible in those Churches. And what will they say in front of Jesus, peace be upon him."
The Muslim cleric was referring to "churches" such as the Presbyterian Church USA, which has recently changed its internal statutes in order to recognize same-sex "marriages". The world awaits the Presbyterian leaaders' response. So far all we hear is crickets.
Footnote: The self-styled Christian minister on the left in the picture, waving to the pro-LGBTQ2S crowds at Toronto's "Gay Pride Parade" a couple of years ago, is none other than the "Rev." Brent "Chicken" Hawkes, the presbyter of Metropolitan Community Church, "a vibrant, inclusive and progressive church, where all are welcome to attend." Mr. Hawkes presided over Canada's first gay wedding in 2001, four years before the Canadian government legalized "gay marriage". For this and other pro-queer activities, he received the Order of Canada.
But according to Nova Scotia police, Mr. Hawkes' doesn't just support homosexuals from the sidelines. Earlier this month he was charged with sexual assault of a male, an offence which allegedly occurred some 40 years ago. The old bugger has been charged with offences from that era’s Criminal Code: indecent assault on a male and gross indecency. He is to appear in court in Kentville NS on April 13th. Click here for details from the Toronto Star.
Poor Len told you yesterday about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit to Canada's biggest city (and fount of all evil), Toronto. We learned that Himself Jr. is a fan of the Montréal Canadiens, and that he has no hesitation in upstaging Toronto Mayor John Tory in the inevitable photo op.
You would think that with a name like "John Tory", hizzoner would be a loyal, true-blue, conservative Conservative. Indeed he was all of that, eons ago, when he was leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He learned the hard way that being conservative doesn't pay off in the new liberal, multicultural Toronto, where straight white males like his goodself are almost an endangered species. In his last provincial campaign he was defeated by Kathleen Wynne, now Ontario's Premier, who is white enough, but better-known for being not male and not straight.
After sitting on the sidelines for a few years, Mr. Tory jumped back into the political pool, being careful to remove his party label before running successfully for the mayoralty. Now that he's MOAT (Mayor Of All Toronto), Mr. Tory has embraced diversity in all its forms, including, it would seem, gender ideology.
Since his election, Mayor Tory has never missed an opportunity to pander to the LGBT crowd. At least, "LGBT" is what he called the rainbow coalition at first. Then they added a "Q" (for "Queer"), and so did the mayor -- LGBTQ was the new politically correct acronym.
"But wait!", as Vince Offer used to say, "there's more!" Today, Agent 3 informs us, Mayor Tory announced the opening of a shelter for youths (16-24) of uncertain sexual orientation. And what did he call these poor, shelter-less queer people? "LGBTQ2S"! No kidding. Apparently the "2S" means "two-spirited", whatever that means. Maybe it means you're whichever "spirit" you feel like being at any given time. Or maybe it's what we used to call "AC/DC". No, wait... that's the "B", right?
It's all very confusing to us straight people. Whether we're more confused than the LGBTQ2S folks is another question entirely.
Sometimes a picture really is worth 1000 words. Here's a photo of former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty looking away in embarrassment as his successor, Kathleen "Lesbian and Proud of it!" Wynne, announces that her intention to reintroduce the pro-queer, pro-perversion sex education curriculum that Mr. McGuinty previously put on the shelf.
Mr. McGuinty, now lucratively retired, wrote a very self-serving memoir, Dalton McGuinty, Making a Difference, which hit the bookstands last weekend. [It should be in the remainder bins come Boxing Day. Ed.]
Mr. McGuinty told the NP interviewer that he "had no idea our government was even considering changes to sex ed until a reporter asked me about it" back in 2010. He went on to say that he didn't cave to "pressure from Christian fundamentalists" as has been suggested by many, including Ms/Mr Wynne. In the book, her former boss writes "She disagreed with my decision to put our sex-education reforms on hold. She felt we were caving to right-wing ideologues. I felt we were being prudent.'"
As PAFE (Parents As First Educators) has been saying for over a year now, Mr. McGuinty promised a proper consultation on the new curriculum, but his successor refused to honour that promise, undoubtedly because she knows that the majority of Ontario parents oppose her immoral, pro-LGBT, "if it feels good, do it!" agenda.
Footnote: Canada's new Liberal government, led by Justin Trudeau (for whom Ms/Mr Wynne campaigned relentlessly) announced earlier this week that the allegedly Syrian "refugees" it will be importing to Canada in the next few weeks will be women and children and families, but not single men... unless of course the single "men" happen to be gay or trans-gendered or bi or otherwise queer. Fancy that.
As Walt told you a few days ago, there's a strong feeling that the fix is in at the 2015 Bishops Synod on the Family, in progress (???) at the Vatican this month. It is clear that, in spite of the opposition of bishops from America, Asia and Africa, the Pope and the Gay Mafia in the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church are determined to water down the traditional teachings of the Church on divorce, Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, homosexuality and same-sex "marriage".
One of those battling for adherence to the Faith of our fathers is Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles Chaput. Earlier this week, in his address to the Pope and the bishops assembled, the prelate said that the Instrumentum Laboris (working document) for the Synod "engenders a subtle hopelessness".
The document, published by the Synod's general secretary, Cardinal Baldisseri, as a "guide" to the bishops' deliberations, has been criticized by many of the prelates. Abp. Chaput told the assembly that it fails to inspire a sense of Christian hope. Moreover, the Instrumentum does not convey confidence that Catholics, with the help of grace, can resist the pressures that are undermining marriage and family life. He continued:
This leads to a spirit of compromise with certain sinful patterns of life and the reduction of Christian truths about marriage and sexuality to a set of beautiful ideals, which then leads to surrendering the redemptive mission of the Church. The work of this synod needs to show much more confidence in the Word of God, the transformative power of grace, and the ability of people to actually live what the Church believes. And it should honor the heroism of abandoned spouses who remain faithful to their vows and the teaching of the Church.
Responding to a question about the demand for a Synod message that will make all people (read: not only divorced Catholics but the LGBT crowd whose lifestyle is objectively disordered) feel welcome in the Church, Abp. Chaput said that the need for attractive language must be balanced against the demand for truth. "We have to be careful with our language so that people don't get hurt, but also we must be faithful to Church doctrine."
African-born journalist Ken Mufuka writes a "Letter From America" every week in the Financial Gazette, one of Zimbabwe's courageously independent newspapers. This week his topic is Obergefell v. Hodges, the recent decision of the Supreme Court in which the dishonourable court, by a vote of 5-4, tortured the "equal protection" provisions of the Constitution into a finding that homosexuals (gays, lesbians, transexuals, bisexuals and queers in general) have the same rights as straight folk to marry and have their nuptials celebrated by society.
Gay "marriage" maybe be against God's law, but it's now the law of the USA. God save the United States of America!
Well, that's Walt's view. In "Gay Triumph Now Complete", Mr. Mufuka [pronounced with a long "U". Ed.] takes an even dimmer view of the decision, but he takes much longer to say so. Walt has excerpted some of the more acidic bits of his column. The words are Mr. Mufuka's; the emphasis is mine.
July 4, or Independence Day, commemorates the overthrow of the British imperialists by American patriots in the war of independence. It is big deal, as they say here. Citizens use this day to blow off steam, dance in public and generally engage in good-natured goofy behaviour, even disgracing themselves. It is all done in good faith. The police look the other way. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) “community” had the best July 4th celebrations ever. They say that such a joyous time as this comes only once in a millennium. Their celebrations started June 27, when the US supreme court announced two rulings.
A pro-gay reprobate judge, Anthony Kennedy, announced the judgment. The issue was whether same sex marriages were protected in the US constitution. To cut a long story short, marriage is not mentioned because it was assumed, supported by immemorial custom that a man shall leave his home to find a damsel and marry her. Having failed to find a constitutional clause, the reprobate judge strained all sensibilities to create one out of thin air, calling it equal protection under law. Same sex partners, wrote the pro-gay judge, bring with them the hope that in their marriages they are not “condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.” Chief Justice John Roberts, who disagreed with the decree, nevertheless, saw the earth shattering impact it had on the future of the world. The decision cannot be justified on moral or historical grounds. The fact remains that United States is an exceptional, confirmed in its own righteousness. As such arrangements have been put in place for the advancement of the gay agenda to the world.
Protestant denominations...had foreseen the gay decision, they were unprepared for the onslaught within their own organizations.... Infiltrated by earthly philosophies over the years, they were left wondering in the wilderness, as gay forces outflanked and swiftly destroyed all opposition. South Carolina Methodists barely survived a gay resolution, but it was very close, 752 votes against 550. The pro-gay lobby promised that “they will be back, the fight is not over.”
The 3.8 million members Lutheran Church (USA) which split into two denominations over the issue revisited it with wisdom gained from experience. Each individual denomination will, after prayer, instruct their pastor whether they will permit gay weddings in their church. The Anglicans, meeting in Utah, the home of the polygamous Mormon Christians, suffered resounding defeat, 173 delegates in favour, against last-stand motley of 27 resisters. There is another juicy change among Anglicans. Gays can now be married in the full communion of the church, and church wedding bells are allowed. Little boys and girls can walk in the isle to present flowers to a gay couple. When the deputies took on another position on gender neutral religion, they suffered a worse defeat, 184 supporting the change against miserable 23. In this second resolution, God is no longer “Our Father in Heaven” but the Creator of the Universe. It is, however, alright to say: “God our Mother in Heaven” or to say: “The faith of our mothers.”
It's tempting for us Catholics -- especially traditional Catholics -- to sneer at the Protestants' capitulation to the homonazis, but Holy Mother Church is not immune from the cancers of moral rot and political correctness. The pro-queer agenda, along with weakening of the Church's laws on divorce and remarriage is being pushed relentlessly by the gay lobby in the Vatican and in the liberal churches of Germany and the low countries. This fall will see another Synod on the Family, at which same sex "marriage" will be back on the table. Stay tuned.
Note from Ed.: No, we don't know if Mr. Mufuka is a Catholic. Why don't you ask him? mufukaken@gmail.com.
Walt has been trying desperately to ignore this "story", as well as that of the Dirty Duggar, because to me, these things are not "news", not of the slightest importance to the future of our country, our world or anything else that really matters. They are yet another example of the lamestream media's pandering to the bizarre American fascination with "celebrities" -- people like the Kardashians who are famous for being famous.
Yet I keep seeing "stories" and even op-ed pieces with titles like "Caitlyn Jenner is a woman and deserves to be described as such" (posted by the Groan and Wail's Pubic Editor). This, we're told, is the most important and newsworthy issue of a week in which more 1000s of "refugees" crossed the Med in leaky boats, Russia threatened war against the Ukraine, and [Ed., please fill in some more news stories here.]
Because I refuse to read or listen to any of this rubbish about the poster-boy -- poster-girl? -- for the sex-change-is-normal movement, I don't know if Bruce or Caitlyn has actually had the operation, or is still in the pre-op stage which we used to call cross-dressing. And you know what? I don't care! Really!!!
Caitlyn Jenner and the Duggar family speak to America’s changing sense of itself, and to the shifting fronts in the “cultural war” that Pat Buchanan invoked in his famous speech in the Houston Astrodome, 23 years ago. They are in fact the substance of our national conversation, the central narrative of American political and cultural life in our time. What happens inside the Beltway is a footnote, if that.
If Mr. O'Hehir is right, as I fear, God save the United States of America!
Final word to Mark Steyn: "In the future there will be no men whatsoever. There will be girls with vaginas and girls with penises."
Footnote and book recommendation: If you're not sure what Pat Buchanan said at the Republican convention in Houston and why it shifted the focus of American conservatism from economics and finance (where it belongs) to the culture wars, read David Frum's Dead Right, "a witty and opinionated tour through the chaos of post-Reagan conservatism".
