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Daily Broadside | What Happens in Canada Won’t Stay in Canada

Last Friday I wrote that Christians need to be prepared “to be persecuted, to be an ‘object of amusement’ being destroyed ‘not for the public good but to gratify the cruelty of an individual’ — or a political party.” I gave you the examples of Garland’s DOJ spying on the Catholic Church and punishing a pro-life father for an incident at an abortion clinic for which he had already been cleared by local authorities.

Today I’ve got two more examples for you. The first is the case of two LGBTQ++ Washington Elementary School District (AZ) school board members who objected to student teachers provided by Arizona Christian University.

One of the board members took direct offense at the language about a “biblical lens.” Another complained about specific language describing the university’s mission as to “influence, engage, and transform the culture with truth by promoting the biblically informed values that are foundational to Western civilization.” A central complaint targeted the Christian school’s commitment to “traditional sexual morality and lifelong marriage between one man and one woman.”

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Board member Tamillia Valenzuela, who described herself as “a bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent Queer Black Latina,” responded: “At some point we need to get real with ourselves and take a look at who we are making legal contracts with and the message that that is sending to the community because that makes me feel like I could not be safe in this school district.” Further: “That makes queer kids who are already facing attack from our lawmakers feel that they could not be safe in this community.”

Board member Kyle Clayton agreed. “I just don’t believe that belongs in schools,” he said. “I would never want my son to talk about his two dads and be shamed by a teacher who believed a certain way and is at a school that demands that they teach through their biblical lens.”

Even though Washington Elementary School District had received student teachers from ACU for the past 11 years and none of the student teachers violated school policy, the board voted unanimously to reject the contract with the school. Note that their rejection of ACU was based solely on theological grounds — a clear violation of religious liberties.

As R. Albert Mohler Jr. goes on to write, “This blatantly unconstitutional action reveals where many people are determined the society must go. Biblical Christianity must be cut off from civilized society.”

The second example is from our cousins up north across the border, where a pastor was protesting a drag queen story hour for children. Note that it is illegal for any Canadian citizen to object to the sexualization of children in the form of drag shows. Watch what Tucker Carlson says about it.

That is one of the most chilling examples of how the tables have turned on Christians that I’ve seen. First, the pastor was literally — and violently — thrown out of a meeting where he was protesting the corruption of children. The people doing the throwing weren’t cops (that I could tell). Then the pastor was arrested for causing a disturbance, for which he will undoubtedly be prosecuted.

Finally, as Tucker asks, “Where are all the professional Christians” like Tim Keller, David French and Beth Moore? I’m not sure why he cites them, other than that they’re “Christian” celebrities. In Tucker’s mind, apparently, they defend Christianity, although I’d argue that at least one of them — David French — finds common cause with the Left more often than conservative Christianity.

In addition to asking where the celebrities are, I’d ask where the local pastors are in Canada? Are they all staying quiet? What about all the Christians in Canada? Are they all staying quiet? If so, why?

Likewise, what about in our own country? Right now, Arizona Christian University is taking the issue they’re facing to court, which is only right. We can hope for a constitutional outcome, but what if we don’t? What then?

As Carl Truman recently wrote, “The time for evangelical leaders and institutions to speak is now. The moment to use the platforms we have to protect women and children has come. If J.K. Rowling has the courage to stand for the truth and to call for the protection of children and women, then so should we. Silence in the face of this evil is culpable and, make no mistake, will be noted by future generations.”

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Daily Broadside | Canada Should Be a Warning, Not an Example

Daily Verse | Deuteronomy 4:39
Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

Thursday’s Reading: Deuteronomy 9-12

Happy Thursday and welcome back to me! Sorry to go radio silent for a week with no warning, but we had plans to visit friends in the southern U.S. and had to skedaddle a day early to avoid the crazy Midwest weather patterns that prove climate change is real! We went to Texas where the temps ranged from the mid-forties to the mid-eighties, the skies were blue, the rain was brief, and the smell of freedom was everywhere. Plus, there was a lot of LGBFJB attitude, which we very much enjoyed.

Thanks to those of you who checked in on me.

The Brandon administration lurches from one failure to another, all the while blaming Trump and white supremacy for the results of his insane policies. (Well, they’re not actually his policies. He doesn’t know what he’s saying or what he’s endorsing. All of his policies are made up by the junta in Washington and he just nods along.) And while the nation is focused on the misdirection of Ukraine and Putin’s laughter at Biden—the only guy to go toe-to-toe with him!—we have some truly alarming developments to our north as Justin Brandeau goes full dictator — and the Canadian Parliament backs him up!

As things have developed, Canada has, in the idiomatic sense, become a joke, that is, a bad one, in effect, a joke that is not a joke. In other words, we never expected the unexpected, a liberal democracy transformed almost overnight into a fascist dictatorship, a travesty of a former assumption. Just yesterday, who would have thought that truckers’ operating licenses would be revoked. Or Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson would intend to sell confiscated rigs under the Emergencies Act. Or that banks can freeze accounts of individuals and corporations involved in the protests without a court order, as announced by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland who, as Michael Walsh points out in The Pipeline, sits on the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum, “the most dangerous threat to real democracy and freedom in the world today, and whose journalist grandfather was reportedly a Nazi collaborator.” Or that a thrice-elected prime minister and darling of the electorate would assume the mantle of a totalitarian despot. Or that people would be savagely beaten by masked police without badge numbers and jackbooted RCMP officers think they are “living the dream” at the prospect of “police horses trampl[ing] peaceful protesters.”

Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihad Watch website and writes a lot about Islamist extremists, their threat to liberal democracy and has, himself, been banned from Britian over his views, writes this:

The death of freedom in Canada went by a party-line vote Monday evening, with the ruling Liberals and the far-Left New Democratic Party voting in favor of Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, and the Conservatives voting against. The vote on Hitler’s Enabling Act, which ended the Weimar Republic, also went along party lines, although most of those who weren’t National Socialists were too intimidated by that point to do anything but go along. In Canada, none of the Liberals and New Democrats who voted for the Emergencies Act appear to have pondered the lessons of the Left’s history and how this whole thing can backfire on them so very easily.

Trudeau claims that he needs emergency powers to seize the bank accounts of his opponents and hound them in other extraconstitutional ways because even though the Freedom Convoy has dispersed, it could gather again any time, you see. Another threat to “our democracy,” as Leftists in both Canada and the United States refer to their hegemony, is just around the corner. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh claimed Monday that the Freedom Convoy “came here to overthrow a democratically elected government. It is a movement funded by foreign influence, and it is fed on disinformation. Its goal is to disrupt our democracy.”

If that reminds you of the Democrats’ rhetoric about their fictional Jan. 6 “insurrection,” that’s because Canada’s Liberals and the Democrats in the States are working from the same playbook: demonize their opposition as insurrectionists and restrict their activities accordingly.

It’s that last paragraph that sums up my alarm over the developments in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (all under the British monarchy), ostensibly liberal democracies where freedom is valued. It’s amazing how quickly each devolved into a dictatorship, imposing unlawful “emergency” police powers on their citizens and cutting off any opportunities to resist or object by word or behavior.

The reason for my concern is that the United States has been seeing more and more of its laws being circumvented or ignored with unending mask mandates, vaccination requirements, school closures, BLM rioting and looting and murders, J6 protestors being jailed without bond or charges, elected officials saying that white supremacy (read: Trump voters) is the greatest threat to “our democracy,” Critical Race Theory being taught to our kids, attempts to surveille our bank accounts, the invasion happening along our southern border and so much more.

Imagine that the truckers making their way to the U.S. capitol in our own Freedom Convoy are arrested and held without bail; that anyone donating to the cause or bringing them food or water or gasoline has their bank account frozen or are arrested as accessories to an attempted “overthrow” of the government or a threat to the “elected” leader of the US—exactly how many of us will be in the streets demonstrating and demanding that the government stand down?

The answer is none, I’m afraid.

The reason I think that is because there haven’t been any for the J6 protestors; there haven’t been any against the rioters and anarchists in various Democrat-run cities. I’m not sure what it’s going to take to disabuse Resident Brandon of his unhinged policies.

The American people are armed and have been arming themselves at a record-setting pace for a few years now. (The 393,347,000 estimated number of guns is from 2017 and doesn’t include the most recent data.) Neither Canada, Australia nor New Zealand have liberal gun laws. Canadians are allowed to have guns but there is no legal right to possess a firearm; in Australia, private gun ownership is strictly regulated; and in New Zealand, only a quarter of their citizens have a firearm.

Even with our top-heavy gun ownership, I’m not sure what we can expect in the face of tightening controls.

Interesting news just breaking:

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has revoked his use of the Emergencies Act, the quirk in Canadian law that allowed his cabinet to have the power to freeze the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protesters and use tyrannical police power to break up the vaccine freedom protest.

I don’t know why Brandeau has taken this step, but it seems to me that the damage is already done by invoking the Emergencies Act to begin with. What’s to stop him from using it again on another citizen protest?

And what’s to stop something similar from happening here?

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Daily Broadside | It’s Time for Americans to Start Acting Like These Canadians

Daily Verse | 1 Kings 15:5
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord and had not failed to keep any of the Lord’s commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

It’s Monday and the start of a new week as the lunacy continues under Hunter’s father. But I see signs that Normal Americans are starting to get sick and tired of the nonsense, especially as it concerns the Chinese Bat Flu.

I’ve got three videos for you to watch. (If you have the Daily Broadside delivered and you’re reading this in your email, I encourage you to click through to the site. You really need to watch these.)

The first two are examples of what you and others can do in response to those busybodies who try to interfere with running a business or simply getting on with your life. The third earns a language warning from me, but I share it because most of us feel the same way as the guy who originally shared it.

In the first, Polish pastor Artur Pawlowski demands that police officers and officials from Alberta Health Services and City of Calgary Bylaw services leave after they interrupted a Passover service at the Street Church in Alberta, Canada.

Most chilling is what Pastor Pawlowski said after the video went viral.

“I grew up in Poland under the boot of the Soviets, behind the Iron Curtain,” Pawlowski added to the outlet. “What I see right now, I see everything escalating and moving to the new level. They’re acting just like the Communists were acting when I was growing up when the pastors and the priests were arrested, and some were murdered. Many were tortured.”

“That’s why I say what I say,” he explained to the Daily Caller. “Because I see a repetition of history.”

We should be listening to men and women like him. Most of all, we should be doing what he did and demand that they get out. Which is what the next video also shows.

Again in Canada, patrons of Corduroy, a restaurant in Vancouver, chanted “Get out!” at two health inspectors.

Again, a group of people standing against the representation of tyranny, in this case, two health inspectors. We’ve watched over the last year as masked “Karens” (men and women) rage at others who aren’t wearing masks or aren’t socially-distanced enough for their satisfaction. It’s about time we gave them a dose of their own medicine.

I’m referring to people like the young woman in this next video (don’t know if she’s Canadian, but don’t hear any accent, ay?). Again, language warning both for what she says (especially for what she says) and for the written response of the Twitter user who shared it.

I’m actually sympathetic to the guy’s comment. Is there anyone listening to this woman’s rant who doesn’t think something similar? Seriously, she needs help.

Imagine living in such fear that you rage-shame everyone who isn’t doing what you think they should be doing to keep you safe. And your ideas of what constitutes “safe” are formed by the Covidiots who run our country even though it’s clear they don’t have a clue what the right thing is to do—chief among them “Dr.” Anthony Fauci.

You think me wearing a mask is going to help you? Have you seen the stats?

I’ve have been asked the question, “What do we do?” in the midst of the chaos. One of the things we can do is stand firm against those who try to impose their will on the unwilling. Where mask-wearing is optional or not enforced, I’ve gone into stores without one. Sometimes I have been confronted about it. In each case I’ve refused to comply.

It takes guts to do it, because you may not be successful. But then again, you might be. And if you are successful at staring down the enforcers and others see you do it, then maybe we can inspire them to do the same.