Interim

The August 2005 edition of the pro-life newspaper, the Interim, published a very insightful article on Canada’s record on matters of basic human rights. The author is Paul Tuns. He says that, for the last 40 years, “Canada has been a laboratory for dreadful social experiments.” It all started with contraception 1967. Sale of devices became legal. It separated pleasure from procreation. Self-sacrifice was replaced by self-fulfilment at any cost. It has led to narcisism run wild.


Divorce laws were loosened up beginning the following year, 1968. If children could be delayed or avoided because they were deemed to be burdens, surely spouses could be abandoned for the same reason. Marriage ceased to be a sacred covenant, broken only by death and the marital commitment became conditional. The proliferation of broken marriages produced broken families and broken children. Contraception had become quite clearly a human right, the right to choose. And divorce the same.

All abortion constraints were lifted in 1969 ushering in the current era of the silent holocaust. From this point on, Canada placed no restriction on abortion and essentially abandoned its Christian heritage. We have reached 100,000 abortions a year, all in the name of “choice” and at government expense. The state and the media have done their best to silence the lifers so that women do not know the grim procedure they are considering. Abortion has become an industry and the butchers who do the job are getting very wealthy. The 75% of Canadians who do not want unrestricted right to abortion have been effectively disenfranchized.

Along with the above and the undermining of the sanctity of marriage, the homosexual juggernaut is in the process of destroying the country’s soul.

One outrage followed another. Sodomy was legalized between consenting adults. Same-sex marriage was legalized through the courts. The definition of traditional marriage was ruled discriminatory. Polygamy, multiple marriage, is not far off.

Assisted suicide is on the way. Embryonic stem cell research is trumpeted to be the answer to cures for all kinds of disease. Canada is on the cutting edge of bio-research, if destroying embryonic persons means anything. It is so hard to understand how we have been seduced into allowing it when there are easily acquired stem cells that do not require the destruction of human life. But, parliament made embryonic stem cell research legal and opened the doors for human cloning.

The author of the article, Paul Tuns, maintains that embryonic cells, the use of which requires the destruction of human life, does not help doctors to heal patients and only satisfies the morbid curiosity of research teams, eager for prestige. He says: “As Canada pumps more and more money into these depraved projects, there will be calls for liberalizing the already-loose restrictions on such research, all in the name of progress.”

Mormons in western Canada, taking their cue from the Mormons in Utah, as well as a good number of Muslims, are talking about getting governments and legislatures to legalize what they’re calling “multiple marriage”. As they say, the majority has no right to impose its morality on the minority.

Quoting again: “Same sex ‘marriage’ is an assault on the rights of children because it denies them a mother or a father. Polygamy confuses children by giving them a father and several mothers. But even this may be only the beginning. In recent years the prohibition against child pornography has been relaxed. Guess what is coming next – a call for tolerance on behalf of those who are attracted to children. With abortion and same-sex marriage, society has collectively abandoned its children. The latter have come close to being either a burden or a commodity.”

Institutional care for children is becoming the norm. The government of Canada has set aside at least 5 billion dollars so that children can be cared for outside the home and the family. Day care facilities are a big priority for any political party or individual hoping lot be elected to public office. Such facilities effectively dismantle the traditional family and create a whole new problem constituency – latchkey children.

Is there hope? What a question for a believing Christian to ask! Of course there is hope! As long as the Holy Spirit hasn’t left us, and he hasn’t, the power of God can sweep all that culture of death garbage into the trash barrel in the twinkling of an eye. I’m not going to quit praying for that. Are we all together on this resolve?