{"id":22555,"date":"2015-02-13T20:52:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T01:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22555"},"modified":"2015-02-13T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T01:52:58","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-wants-to-address-ontarios-dignity-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-wants-to-address-ontarios-dignity-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara wants to address Ontario\u2019s Dignity Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You could be forgiven for thinking that that means throwing out Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal Government. But no: the diocese wants what every left thinking Anglican wants: a bogus utopia in which wealth is redistributed through increased taxation. Except for the diocese itself, of course, which <em>deserves<\/em> to maintain its tax exempt status because it campaigns so tirelessly for \u2013 well, wealth redistribution for everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/niagaraanglican.ca\/news\/address-provinces-dignity-deficit\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a recent submission to the Minister of Finance&#8217;s 2015 Pre-Budget Consulation, <em>[sic]<\/em> the Diocese articulated its conviction that a socially just society is one in which all citizens have enough to flourish. While Ontario\u2019s fiscal deficit is a pressing issue, so is its dignity deficit according to the Reverend Bill Mous, Director of Justice, Community and Global Ministries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The diocese reckons that the charitable work done by <a href=\"http:\/\/stmatthewshouse.ca\/?gclid=CPmMxYmo4MMCFcpZ7AodSwIAmQ\" target=\"_blank\">St. Matthew\u2019s House<\/a> in Hamilton is \u201cinadequate\u201d. Perhaps if the diocese donated more of its tax free income to St. Matthew&#8217;s House it would be less <em>inadequate.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could be forgiven for thinking that that means throwing out Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal Government. But no: the diocese wants what every left thinking Anglican wants: a bogus utopia in which wealth is redistributed through increased taxation. Except &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-wants-to-address-ontarios-dignity-deficit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[2111,1954],"class_list":["post-22555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-diocese-of-niagara","tag-st-matthews-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}