{"id":7973,"date":"2010-03-31T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2010-03-31T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:07:29","slug":"more-anglicans-moaning-about-funding-cuts-to-kairos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/more-anglicans-moaning-about-funding-cuts-to-kairos\/","title":{"rendered":"More Anglican moaning about funding cuts to Kairos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The editor of the Anglican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawa.anglican.ca\/crosstalk\/April_2010_Crosstalk.pdf\">Diocese of Ottawa\u2019s paper<\/a> <em>(page 5),<\/em> Art Babych reckons that government cuts to Kairos were retribution for Kairos\u2019s anti-Israel bias:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But this isn\u2019t about CIDA\u2019s priorities, is it? The denial of 35 years of government funding for KAIROS, coupled with the recent firings amid a politically charged atmosphere at Rights and Democracy over the funding of some groups critical of Israel, suggest that in government quarters, criticism of Israel is the new anti-Semitism. And that should send a shudder through all who value free speech, not only those groups who criticize Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t be particularly surprised if Art is correct; I wouldn\u2019t be particularly upset, either. In fact I\u2019d be rather pleased.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, though, this is in no way a curtailing of free speech. By not giving taxpayer money to Kairos, the government is not preventing Kairos from saying whatever it wants; it is just not being paid to say it by you and me.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Babych\u2019s devotion to free speech would extend to allowing Ann Coulter to speak in his city?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editor of the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa\u2019s paper (page 5), Art Babych reckons that government cuts to Kairos were retribution for Kairos\u2019s anti-Israel bias: But this isn\u2019t about CIDA\u2019s priorities, is it? The denial of 35 years of government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/more-anglicans-moaning-about-funding-cuts-to-kairos\/\">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":[14],"tags":[2030,2112,969],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-anglican","tag-diocese-of-ottawa","tag-kairos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973","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=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}