The New Fascism

IN my last Bulleted Bulletin I made reference to the disturbing case of the Basilian priest, Fr Alphonse de Valk, who is being investigated by the rabid Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) for defending matrimony using the Bible, the encyclicals of Pope John Paul II, and the unchanging doctrine of the Church as propounded in the Catholic Catechism. For opposing "gay marriage," Fr de Valk stands accused of perpetrating a "hate crime" - specifically, of indulging "extreme hatred and contempt" for homosexuals. If he is found "guilty" - everybody dragged before the CHRC is found "guilty" - he could be outlawed from ever commenting on the revolting and uncivilised idea of "marriage" between homosexuals again. Effectively, the preaching of Christianity will have been banned in Canada. (As, evidently, it has been banned in Birmingham). That has already been established as a possible CHRC precedent in the case of Rev. Stephen Boission, as Ezra Levant points out. (Via Saint). As Fr de Valk understandably argues, fascism - "the ideology of the 'divinization' of the state" - has come to Canada.

And to Britain. There the state is also busy divinising its own morality, raising putrid grotesqueries to a status surpassing that afforded the Decalogue - or even common sense. This was made plain in May when it was decided that fathers were no longer necessary, a travesty meant to placate the homosexual lobby whose principals want the "right" to adopt children. Resultantly, the Catholic Children's Rescue Service in the Diocese of Salford has now closed its doors after more than 122 years. To be fair to the fascists of old, however, they would have regarded Frank Kameny defending bestiality - "as long as the animal doesn't mind" - as proof of mental derangement.

Mr Kameny can still seek medical intervention in a civilised country if he so chooses but who now speaks for the more absolutely helpless? Because the brutality of fascism always moves from the ideological to the actual, it should come as no surprise that Canada's Liberal Party leader, Stéphane Dion, is attempting to block Bill C-484 - a legislative proposal to protect wanted unborn children from violent crimes. The bill's purpose is to additionally punish those who kill an unborn child while committing an offence against the mother. Despite not affecting the status quo of legal abortion, Mr Dion has condemned the bill for the same low reason Barack Obama opposed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act: it affords rights approximating rights of personhood - constitutional rights - to an unborn child. That idea these two brave heroes will never accept. They believe, respectively, that an assailant who bashes a woman and destroys her child should not be punished beyond existing law and that babies born alive after a failed abortion may licitly be left to die in a rubbish bin. Yes, this is fascism.