Real women condemn human-rights violations. No, not the organization calling itself REAL Women of Canada. I mean, real women — no organizational name needed, because they’re everywhere in Canada.
Last week, REAL Women’s national vice-president Gwendolyn Landolt attacked Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird for speaking out against anti-gay legislation in Russia, as well as Uganda and Kenya. She complained that he wasn’t speaking for Canadians, only for himself. She then stated that his actions were “highly offensive to conservative taxpayers,” and indicated that she speaks for Canadians, as Baird’s pro-homosexual views are not “conservative values and that of grassroots Canadians.”
They’re not? Hmm. I wonder where Landolt was in 2001, when former Tory prime minister Joe Clark proudly served as the marshal for Calgary’s gay pride parade.
It would be comical, if it weren’t so pathetic, that Landolt accuses Baird of presuming to speak for Canadians, and then does the same thing she accuses him of, and presumes to speak for Canadians herself.
The hypocrisy doesn’t stop there.
In her press release last week, she talked about how Baird “admitted working extensively behind the scenes to prevent Russia from passing legislation designated to protect Russian minors from homosexual propaganda” — in other words, to prevent Russian children from being adopted by same-sex couples. She said that Russia shut down foreign adoptions of Russian children after “horrendous child abuse; for example, adoptive ‘fathers’ in Australia together with other men, sexually abused a six-year-old boy, starting at 22 months of age, born of a Russian surrogate mother.”
Landolt neglects to mention that all is not well on her cherished nuclear-family front, either. The Texas Department of Social Services is looking into the case of two teenage girls, adopted from Russia, who’ve been removed from their adoptive parents, Michael and Penny Deckert, of Silsbee, Texas, because of allegations of sexual abuse.
Moreover, Landolt has done a little fancy footwork with the facts. Russia did not end all foreign adoptions because of the Australian case; it banned gay couples from adopting because of that case. However, Russia banned all Americans from adopting orphans as a retaliatory measure after the U.S. passed the Sergei Magnitsky Act into law. The act provides for sanctions such as visa bans and freezing of American assets for Russian authorities linked with the 2009 prison death of a lawyer who blew the whistle on a fraud involving tax refunds allegedly headed by the police and tax inspectors. The ban on American adoptions had nothing to do with gays.
REAL Women’s website declares that its members’ common bond “is our belief that the family is the most important unit in society.” One can only infer that REAL Women would prefer to see Russian children languish in orphanages, deprived of a loving family, if the parents in that loving family are a same-sex couple.
In April, children at an orphanage in Russia’s Khabarovsk region were severely beaten by drunken nurses “to get them to stop crying,” according to the New York Times. The Times reported that “one of the victims, a seven-month-old, was wrapped in a sheet and stuffed in a plastic container to muffle the cries.”
I’m sure any of the 650,000 children living in Russian orphanages would rather be beaten and stuffed in a plastic container by drunken caregivers than be properly clothed, fed, loved and taken for a walk by two gay guys.
Landolt says she doesn’t “want other countries to get what we have here where people’s religious values and traditional values are being pushed aside and giving homosexuals priority.”
Whose religious and traditional values are being pushed aside? People are free to live by whatever values they please.
Landolt adds: “It is a fact, that homosexual activists in Canada are intolerant of any resistance to their demands, and, as such have become a tyrannical minority.” That’s true. Why, Monday morning, as I arrived at the office, a tyrannical homosexual activist blocked my way and said in a menacing tone: “Hey, you, ditch your husband and give up the straight lifestyle. Or else.”
I support Baird in his crusade for human rights for gays. Sorry, Gwendolyn, but you are the tyrannical minority and you have no business presuming to speak for me. Don’t do it again, OK?
