By Hilary White
TORONTO, October 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Post carried an October 5th editorial by Don Martin that REAL Women of Canada says is a symptom of “horrendous” bias in media coverage on the same-sex marriage issue.
Calling it the “same old same-sex marriage battle,” and a “rigor mortis issue,” Martin echoes the attacks on Christians that were heard in the House last week when opposition Members accused Stephen Harper of being willing to protect the democratic rights of expression by Canadians who oppose homosexuality for religious reasons.
Replicating the comments made the same week by Bloc MP Real Menard in Parliament, Don Martin claims that adequate protection for religious dissent already exists. This despite well-publicized evidence of persecution through extra-judicial Human Rights Tribunals of religious people who object to the homosexual political agenda.
“Same-sex marriages are here to stay, as is the Charter-protected right of religions to oppose the concept.”
“Thus,” Martin concludes, “you can gay bash all day from the pulpit and you’ll get no complaint from the cops.”
Gwen Landoldt, vice president of REAL Women of Canada, told LifeSiteNews.com that Martin’s column is representative of a serious problem. “A number of the columnists who were on our side haven’t had an easy time from their editors in talking about this,” Landoldt said.
REAL Women issued an Alert to their members saying that the media has campaigned against both religious freedom and the movement to protect marriage and suppressed much of the facts in the issue.
The Alert stated that evidence and expert testimony against same-sex “marriage” was ignored and that the Parliamentary committee appointed to study the issue under the Liberal government was not allowed to table its findings.
“The public has been deprived of valuable information as the debate has been deliberately framed in terms of human rights and Charter rights only.”
“The traditional position on marriage did not receive fair exposure except for columns by a few stalwart journalists who put their careers on the line to report the facts against the promotion of same-sex marriage. Some columnists were and continue to be harassed by their editors for doing so. Many have received nasty hate mail and threats to their lives and safety.”
“These journalists often stand alone, never knowing when the axe will fall to end their employment as a result of a complaint from a reader whose feelings are hurt.” REAL Women is asking supporters of marriage to contact journalists personally and support them. “Write letters to the editor defending their point of view. .. Brave journalists writing for major media outlets serve their country well during these difficult times for the family, and they need our support.”
See Don Martin column:
Tory strides hurt by a misstep
https://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=cccbe276-3aed-4ded-98fe-2efc67afa011 and much, much more.