Readers will know — especially if they're subscribers who got the March issue — that Canadian officials, driven or goaded by the homosexualist lobby, have begun trying to remove from Christians their freedom to articulate their religion's moral teaching. The Alberta Human Rights Commission is, for example, threatening the Catholic bishop of Calgary, Fred Henry, for arguing against homosexual marriage in a letter he sent to his diocese.
The Christianity.ca website ("Ca" stands for Canada) offers two revealing articles by Lorne Gunter of the National Post: Chipping Away at Religion and the following week's column Gay? Cool. Christian? Not So Much.
We've also just posted two articles on Canada from the March issue: Rory Leishman's Mad Court Disease and Ian Hunter's Fallen Tortes and Vicars.
You will find the reports worrisome. Many homosexuals seem to need not only tolerance, and not only acceptance, but approval. Not suprisingly, if an irrepressible inner voice, of conscience or of culture, tells them that there something wrong with the thing they are doing yet they find themselves unwilling to stop.
Anything less than approval is treated as oppression, and certainly any statement that homosexuality is wrong is felt to be so. If you feel this passionately enough, you go to the state to try to rid the world of your oppressors, which provides the feeling you are campaigning, altruistically, for justice. By framing the issue as a question of justice for the victimized and freedom from oppression, you can also convince yourself that you are not stamping out the fundamental rights of others. That's the neatest trick of the business.
Christians should not underestimate the passion and energy which homosexualist activists can put into this cause, nor the resources of time and money (being free of the financial responsibilities the rest of us have for our children) they can bring to it. Just look at Canada.
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