The Anglican Church of Canada is devoted to championing the marginalised in our society. Before anyone hastily jumps to the conclusion that the ACoC is against murdering babies in the womb, let me reassure your that they are not that prophetic. The ACoC prefers to campaign on behalf of LGBTQ (you can add any more characters, including special or numeric characters, that you like – it’s a bit like choosing a new password) individuals. The “T” for Transgender, is an interesting one. What would our learned bishops who, in addition to the L,Q,G and Bs, support and affirm the Ts because they are too cowardly not to, make of this?
From here:
There’s an important category in logic known as reductio ad absurdum, according to which you contradict an argument by showing that its general application will produce absurd results. It has been in my mind over the past fortnight or so, as I’ve followed a human-rights tribunal in British Columbia, Canada, and watched it deal with complaints made by trans woman Jessica Yaniv (or “Jonathan Yaniv”: The person apparently goes by both names) against three aestheticians. When it comes to the notion that “gender identity”—the self-declared, subjective feeling of being a man or woman—can reasonably be taken to trump biological sex in law and daily life, Yaniv presents us with a reductio ad absurdum on two legs.
For those who have not been following the case (which, oddly, has been covered by the international media, but mostly ignored by Canada’s own press), the details will sound unbelievable. Last year, Yaniv used social media to contact 16 female aestheticians in the Vancouver area, most working out of their own homes, who advertized Brazilian waxing—the removal of some or all of a woman’s pubic hair by applying and then yanking off strips of heated wax.
Sometimes, Yaniv would use the name Jonathan and a clearly male profile pic. Only then, upon being told that Brazilian waxing is for women only, would Yaniv reply to the effect of “I am trans.” The women would then convey that they were unwilling or unqualified to wax male genitalia. At this point, Yaniv would put in a complaint to the human-rights tribunal, alleging discrimination on the basis of gender identity, a protected characteristic under British Columbia’s human-rights code.
It gets worse all the time. Over a month ago I was forced to write this to Mayor Stewart of Vancouver:
“It is now three months since I sent you this:–
I have to protest with the utmost vehemence against the recent decision to defund the Women’s Shelter in our city. This appears to be ideologically driven by the false notion that one can change one’s sex. One or two external characteristics can be changed, and one’s hormones can be manipulated, but the several hundred other differences between male and female, established at conception, remain untouched and unalterable. Men who think that they are women, for instance, suffer from a delusion, a very serious emotional disorder. I do not pay taxes in order to subsidise that.
When a woman, often with children, resorts to the Shelter, she has already been through quite sufficient trauma by definition, and this has sometimes been at the hands of an emotionally disturbed male of one type or another. What can possibly be the rightness of forcing her to encounter more of the same in what ought to be a safe place? I am in normal mental health, and I do not wish to meet any males even in drag in female spaces. Neither should a vulnerable woman be obliged to do so, in the interests of making a disturbed man feel ‘included’!
If our fair city persists in this crazily discriminatory policy, I shall really have to coin a municipal equivalent of the old “Cloud Bennett Land” joke about BC in the days of ‘Wacky’ Bennett.
I have received only a formal, impersonal electronic reply. Must I conclude that our city cares more for the sensibilities of disturbed men than for the welfare of truly victimised women and children?”
Again I received only the same formal, impersonal electronic reply. As for the Sun newspaper, it hasn’t yet published my copy of this second letter.
My city taxes have now gone to over $5,000.00 p.a. with no senior’s allowance.
None of these delusions, that there can be same-sex-marriage, that there can be sex-change, is in the interests of women and children. Not a one.
If you have not yet read it in the paper edition, do read Rex Murphy’s take on the “Yaniv Affair” in the National Post for Saturday 27 July when it is posted online.
His 19 July commentary is already up:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-b-c-groin-waxing-case-is-a-mockery-of-human-rights
Our Dear Leader Justin has got his wish: lots of global publicity for Canada! Although I’m not sure the world really “needs more Canada” if it’s the Yaniv variety.
Gruesome stuff.
(However, I am getting a sense online that even some of the more ardent “transgender progressives” are starting to fret that their wo/man Yaniv might just be proving a tad counter-productive for the advancement of the cause.)
At the same time, already persecuted Christian William Whattcot has been fined $35,000 by a HRCommission re.the same transgender case in B.C. V.’Lifesitenews’.
C.c. the Canon Lawyers for all denominations. Colourful times are upon us.
V. David Cooke ‘CitizenGo Team’re. the Whattcot Case as the ’cause celebre’ to protect religious liberty in Canada. Petition to be signed.
This decent man was up against precisely the same ‘case’ as led the ‘presentation’ to the Vancouver City Council which caused them to cut off funding to the Women’s Shelter. A troubled/avaricious individual has begotten children but wants us all to believe that he is a woman.
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It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to learn that our Mayor & Co. believe concurrently that ‘sexual orientation’ is immutable.
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As a member of the University Women’s Club of Vancouver I anticipate that that body is next in line as a cash-cow. He’ll encounter some people who can reason. One needn’t be terribly ‘religious’ to have eyes in one’s head and brains between one’s ears.
Belonging to the genre of reductio ad absurdum, e.g. the Yaniv case, and “marrying” a chandelier, we now have this ..
https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/catholic-fury-over-sacrilege-at-st-john-fishers-rochester-cathedral
““The Church of England, suffering a reductio ad absurdum, has turned its Catholic cathedrals into entertainment centres. Having lost contact with transcendence, majesty and holiness, the CofE has become a branch of the leisure and entertainment industry. Since they no longer know what a cathedral is, or what it is for, it is indeed time for them to return them to the Church that conceived, built, and knows how to honour and use them,” Dr Ashenden, who left the Church of England after the Quran was read in Glasgow Cathedral, emphasised.
Just a little note: Glasgow is in Scotland, and it’s all Presbies and Piscies there! It was the ECoS that founded the ECUSA with its particular not very scriptural ethos.