In Canada, freedoms of speech, press, religion, and association have suffered greatly due to government pressure. <\/p>\n
The debate over same-sex marriage that is taking place in the United States could not legally exist in Canada today. <\/p>\n
Because of legal restrictions on speech, if you say or write anything considered \u201chomophobic\u201d (including, by definition, anything questioning same-sex marriage), you could face discipline, termination of employment, or prosecution by the government.<\/p>\n
Why do police prosecute speech under the guise of eliminating \u201chate speech\u201d when there are existing legal remedies and criminal protections against slander, defamation, threats, and assault that equally apply to all Americans? Hate-crime-like policies using the terms \u201csexual orientation\u201d and \u201cgender identity\u201d create unequal protections in law, whereby protected groups receive more legal protection than other groups.<\/p>\n
Having witnessed how mob hysteria in Indiana caused the legislature to back-track on a Religious Freedom Restoration Act, many Americans are beginning to understand that some activists on the Left want to usher in state control over every institution and freedom. <\/p>\n
In this scheme, personal autonomy and freedom of expression become nothing more than pipe dreams, and children become commodified.<\/p>\n
Children are not commodities that can be justifiably severed from their natural parentage and traded between unrelated adults. <\/p>\n
Children in same-sex households will often deny their grief and pretend they don\u2019t miss a biological parent, feeling pressured to speak positively due to the politics surrounding LGBT households. <\/p>\n
However, when children lose either of their biological parents because of death, divorce, adoption, or artificial reproductive technology, they experience a painful void. <\/p>\n
It is the same for us when our gay parent brings his or her same-sex partner(s) into our lives. Their partner(s) can never replace our missing biological parent.<\/p>\n
Over and over, we are told that \u201cpermitting same-sex couples access to the designation of marriage will not deprive anyone of any rights.\u201d That is a lie.<\/p>\n
When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2005, parenting was immediately redefined. Canada\u2019s gay marriage law, Bill C-38, included a provision to erase the term \u201cnatural parent\u201d and replace it across the board with gender-neutral \u201clegal parent\u201d in federal law. <\/p>\n
Now all children only have \u201clegal parents,\u201d as defined by the state… <\/p>\n
Mothers and fathers bring unique and complementary gifts to their children. <\/p>\n
Contrary to the logic of same-sex marriage, the gender of parents matters for the healthy development of children. <\/p>\n
We know, for example, that the majority of incarcerated men did not have their fathers in the home. Fathers by their nature secure identity, instill direction, provide discipline, boundaries, and risk-taking adventures, and set lifelong examples for children. But fathers cannot nurture children in the womb or give birth to and breast-feed babies. Mothers nurture children in unique and beneficial ways that cannot be duplicated by fathers.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t take a rocket scientist to know that men and women are anatomically, biologically, physiologically, psychologically, hormonally, and neurologically different from each other. <\/p>\n
These unique differences provide lifelong benefits to children that cannot be duplicated by same-gender \u201clegal\u201d parents acting out different gender roles or attempting to substitute for the missing male or female role model in the home.<\/p>\n
In effect, same-sex marriage not only deprives children of their own rights to natural parentage, it gives the state the power to override the autonomy of biological parents, which means parental rights are usurped by the government…<\/p>\n
Freedom to assemble and speak freely about man-woman marriage, family, and sexuality is now restricted. <\/p>\n
Most faith communities have become \u201cpolitically correct\u201d to avoid fines and loss of charitable status. <\/p>\n
Canadian media are restricted by the Canadian Radio, Television, and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which is similar to the FCC. If the media air anything considered discriminatory, broadcasting licenses can be revoked, and \u201chuman rights bodies\u201d can charge fines and restrict future airings.<\/p>\n
An example of legally curtailed speech regarding homosexuality in Canada involves the case of Bill Whatcott, who was arrested for hate speech in April 2014 after distributing pamphlets that were critical of homosexuality. <\/p>\n
Whether or not you agree with what he says, you should be aghast at this state-sanctioned gagging. <\/p>\n