To a great many observers, the apparent rejection and imminent defeat of Motion 312 in the House of Commons would seem to herald the end of the abortion debate in Canada.
A lesbian mom with kids in a Catholic school is shocked that a school board pamphlet says homosexuality is "objectively disordered." Can you imagine the temerity of a Catholic school teaching Catholic dogma in the classroom?
Why is the Canadian Left so unfailingly consistent in labeling any moral or social issue with which it does not concur, or does not wish to discuss, as “a can of worms"?
Why do so many gay activist groups seem obsessed with forcing religious people to accept the homosexual lifestyle? Is it a throwback to that ancient coupling of sex and religion in pagan cultures?
We shall never have – and in a temporal world, we should never desire – a marketplace of ideas bereft of controversy and objection. Any law that seeks to create such a sea of homogeneity has no place in a democracy and needs to be repealed.
Events are moving to overwhelm the suffocating political censorship on abortion, despite the monotonous efforts of both Bob Rae and Stephen Harper to force the debate to the back of the bus.