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‘Contraceptive mentality’ led to LGBT takeover of children’s schools
‘Contraceptive mentality’ led to LGBT takeover of children’s schools
MADRID, November 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah strongly criticized LGBT ideology that he said is overrunning governments and education centers while tracing the ideology to the root of the widespread acceptance of contraception about seven decades ago.
“The destructuring of sexual identity, which is often called ‘gender theory,’ against which Pope Francis has harsh words and an attitude of absolute intolerance, can be understood as the anthropological consequence of a practical mutation,” said Cardinal Sarah, the Vatican’s Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline, at a Nov. 7 conference at Madrid’s San Pablo University in advance of the 21st Congress of Catholics and Public Life of Spain. His talk was titled “The importance of education in the Church’s mission today.”
Gender theory holds that male or female sexual organs do not determine an individual’s “sexual identity” but a person’s inner sense of being a man, a woman, or whatever it is that a person wants to identify as (dozens of 'gender options' have been invented to help people identify how they feel about themselves). The theory holds, for instance, that a person born with a male organ of reproduction can choose to identify as “female” and that it’s discriminatory not to support the individual’s choice, including the male’s choice to use female pronouns. The theory also holds that a person's "gender identity" is fluid and can change over time.
“The first link in the process involved women,” Cardinal Sarah continued: “In fact, the contraceptive mentality that has extended strongly after 1950 has made possible a profound disconnection between the woman and her body, a disconnection that has radically changed the way of understanding human sexuality, marriage, filiation and of course education.”
The Catholic Church reaffirmed its condemnation of contraception in the 1968 Encyclical Humanae Vitae. Pope Paul VI prophetically warned that widespread acceptance of contraception would lead to the "general lowering of moral standards" among other things.
The Cardinal credited French writer Simone de Beauvoir’s phrase “You are not born a woman, you become a woman” as summarizing the essence of gender theory.
“Let's add that for de Beauvoir, the family, Marriage and motherhood are the source of female ‘oppression’ and dependence. The pill would have ‘freed’ women by giving them ‘control of their body’ and the possibility of ‘freely disposing’ of it. Under the feminist motto ‘my body belongs to me’ a deep alienation of the incarnated subject is actually hidden. In fact, behind this ‘freedom’ statement lies an instrumentalization of the body itself as a material available to the most indeterminate desires,” he said.
The Cardinal then showed the link between contraception and the distancing of a person from his or her male or female body.
“The contraceptive mentality has engendered a dualism between individual freedom seen as unlimited and almighty, on the one hand, and the body as an instrument of enjoyment, on the other. In that perspective, the sexed body can no longer be lived as a sign and instrument of the gift of self, whose purpose is the communion of the spouses.
The intrinsic link between the two meanings of the conjugal act, the procreative dimension and the unitive dimension, is broken. This link becomes optional, and logically, sexuality ends up being considered only in its relational and pleasure-producing dimension. The destabilizing effects of such a mentality have not been long in coming,” he added.
The Cardinal noted that one of the major destabilizing effects of the contraceptive mentality was the “social legitimization of homosexuality.”
“In fact, if sexuality is no longer perceived in the light of the gift of life, how can homosexuality be considered a perversion, an objective and serious disorder?” he said.
Cardinal Sarah said logically accompanying these changes regarding sexuality was a “redefinition of sexual identity, considering it as purely constructed.”
“If the intrinsic link between the two meanings of the conjugal act is denied, the difference between the sexes loses the first foundation of their intelligibility.” From then on, he said, the “sexed body” can more and more be considered as a “material that individual consciousness can model to its liking.”
The Cardinal then explained the mechanism at work as “sexual minorities” publicly demand equality and freedom to live according to their perceived identities.
“In the name of the fight against the ‘discrimination’ of which the ‘sexual minorities’ would be victims, the agents of the anthropological subversion take the public authorities and the legislator hostage in their revindications. In the name of ‘equality’ and ‘freedom’, they demand that all social discourse, especially in schools and the media, be ‘respectful’ with the sexual indeterminacy of individuals and the free choice of their identity,” he said.
“Then, each one can affirm that it is by self-designation and proclaim: ‘I make my own choice. I am proud of it and I affirm myself in that choice. I do not admit that another or society tell me what I am. I do not receive my being and my existence from anyone but myself. I decide for myself who I am. Society must assume my choice and adapt to my orientation changes.’”
For the LGBT movement, the Cardinal pointed out, the battle is no longer about “claiming tolerance” but about “imposing a new conception of the human being” and creating a “new” human being.
“Under the guise of freedom, this deconstruction at the service of a radical constructivism can be compared with the totalitarian attempts to produce a ‘new man,’” he said.
“Its innocent victims are mainly children, whose parents, permeable to libertarian slogans and bewitched by contemporary sirens, do not support [authentic] human growth and the formation of their [genuine] sexual affectivity.
All this presupposes an erroneous conception of freedom, understood as the fact of not being prevented from following your immediate desires. How far we are from true freedom, which is the realization of the person when he uses his free will to seek the truth and choose his true good,” he continued.
“The anthropological revolution violently disrupts intellectual and moral education, because it creates mental and social dispositions that separate people from themselves,” he added.
The Cardinal said that Catholics should be aware of the gravity of the crisis, “given the atheist atmosphere or of indifference to religious or moral issues which permeate education and school structures.” What should be understood is that the goal of education is for students to “acquire the virtues that permit them to unfold and structure their humanity and personality in accord with the truth that is intrinsic to them.”
He called for the Church to become more active in defending the truth about man in sectors of civil society where that truth has been abandoned, especially in education.
“As has been the case several times in history, the Church has a duty to assume a substitute role to compensate for the collapse of entire sectors of civil society and public authorities,” he said.
“The Church assumes this function of substitution through all its children who are present in this magnificent educational task,” he added.
‘Dirty and unhealthy’ environment destroys children
Following his presentation, Cardinal Sarah answered questions from participants who are concerned about secular influences upon their children.
Likening schools to aquariums where fish are regularly fed fresh food, he said, “But the water in the aquarium is dirty and unhealthy.” Despite the good food, he said, the fish are slowly poisoned and eventually perish. In the learning environment, “even while there are well-disposed students and dedicated teachers, there are substances in the environment that are toxic to the students mental health,” said the Cardinal.
When he was asked how the water in the aquarium could be made clean, he said, “What poisons the environment are dangerous ideologies,” citing “marxism” and “transhumanism.”
He continued, “If we cannot explain who is man, who it is that God wants him to be, logically the aquarium is contaminated.” The water can be cleansed by rediscovering, he said, “the identity of human beings created in the image and likeness of God.”
“Identity is not something we give,” he said, “God gives it to us.” The West, he said, arrogantly “refuses to accept” that identity.” “The great issue are the economic and media leaders who contaminate the environment concerning the identity of the human person.” This is, he said, “the rejection of God.”
Asked what the Church should do in an environment where God is excluded, the Cardinal said, “The Church should be the first to combat toxic ideologies.”
The Church, he said, should focus on “the unprecedented anthropological and moral crisis of our time which demands that the Church should assume a greater responsibility and commitment to propose its doctrinal and moral teachings in a clear, precise and firm manner.”
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Resurging debate around abortion could mean policy change is coming The debate in Canada exists in a legal grey area.
Resurging debate around abortion could mean policy change is coming The debate in Canada is complicated by the fact that unlike in the U.S., where abortion rights are protected by law, abortion in Canada exists in a legal grey area.
https://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/9531237-resurging-debate-around-abortion-could-mean-policy-change-is-coming/?fbclid=iwar1jsah3qfizfszmmzxlk6o-ndq0uucjo09t3ncz6trf9udlsn3bgofu1tc#.XUdOr_wFaaM.facebook
Fetner says, however, that even though the majority of Canadians support abortion, there's still a chance policy will shift. Just because political parties haven't been willing to tackle the issue in the past doesn't mean they won't feel emboldened by the recent increase in anti-abortion rhetoric.
https://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/9531237-resurging-debate-around-abortion-could-mean-policy-change-is-coming/?fbclid=iwar1jsah3qfizfszmmzxlk6o-ndq0uucjo09t3ncz6trf9udlsn3bgofu1tc#.XUdOr_wFaaM.facebook
For the past 30 years, the debate about abortion in Canada has been simmering on the sidelines.
By
and large, Canadians haven't spent much time debating the hugely
contentious issue on a large scale. Anti-abortion groups have attempted
to bring the issue to the forefront, though their influence on national
affairs has remained muted. And, tragically, there have been episodes of
violence — including a 1995 sniper-style shooting in Hamilton targeting
Dr. Hugh Short, an Ancaster obstetrician-gynecologist who performed
abortions.
But despite the controversy around the issue, abortion hasn't been on the table for debate at the national level.
Today, that seems to be changing.
Canadians have watched as several U.S. states have either taken steps to drastically reduce abortion access or passed legislation that essentially bans the process. Here
in Canada, the Conservative party has signalled its hesitance to
support abortion rights, including refusing to stand and applaud for a
statement in the House affirming a woman's right to choose.
Locally,
MPP Sam Oosterhoff, who represents Niagara West for the Doug Ford
Conservatives, spoke this spring at an anti-abortion rally, promising
to "make abortion unthinkable in our lifetime." The
Spectator reached out to Oosterhoff at the time for comment but did not
receive a response. Around the same time, high-profile billboards and advertisements on
city buses spurred debate about the veracity and appropriateness of
pro-abortion ads. Pro-choice protests popped up around Hamilton,
including some led by the highly visible, red-cloaked Handmaids.
This
month "Unplanned" — an American documentary with a strong anti-abortion
message — made headlines with a controversial one-week run in 49
theatres across Canada.
As the debate heats up, will it affect Canadian policy?
The
idea that the anti-abortion camp is growing isn't necessarily true,
said Tina Fetner, an associate professor of sociology at McMaster
University who studies social movements around sexuality. According to
2017 polling data, the majority of Canadians — 77 per cent — say abortion should be permitted.
This poll, consistent with others performed within the last several years,
also showed that only 12 per cent of Canadians feel abortions should be
banned. Another 24 per cent are willing to accept some restrictions on
abortion, but a majority — 53 per cent — want no restrictions on
abortion at all.
Today, that seems to be changing.
Canadians have watched as several U.S. states have either taken steps to drastically reduce abortion access or passed legislation that essentially bans the process. Here
in Canada, the Conservative party has signalled its hesitance to
support abortion rights, including refusing to stand and applaud for a
statement in the House affirming a woman's right to choose.
Locally,
MPP Sam Oosterhoff, who represents Niagara West for the Doug Ford
Conservatives, spoke this spring at an anti-abortion rally, promising to "make abortion unthinkable in our lifetime." The
Spectator reached out to Oosterhoff at the time for comment but did not
receive a response. Around the same time, high-profile billboards and advertisements on
city buses spurred debate about the veracity and appropriateness of
pro-abortion ads. Pro-choice protests popped up around Hamilton,
including some led by the highly visible, red-cloaked Handmaids.
This
month "Unplanned" — an American documentary with a strong anti-abortion
message — made headlines with a controversial one-week run in 49
theatres across Canada.
As the debate heats up, will it affect Canadian policy?
The
idea that the anti-abortion camp is growing isn't necessarily true,
said Tina Fetner, an associate professor of sociology at McMaster
University who studies social movements around sexuality. According to
2017 polling data, the majority of Canadians — 77 per cent — say abortion should be permitted.
This poll, consistent with others performed within the last several years,
also showed that only 12 per cent of Canadians feel abortions should be
banned. Another 24 per cent are willing to accept some restrictions on
abortion, but a majority — 53 per cent — want no restrictions on
abortion at all.
Fetner says, however, that even though the majority of Canadians support abortion, there's still a chance policy will shift. Just because political parties haven't been willing to tackle the issue in the past doesn't mean they won't feel emboldened by the recent increase in anti-abortion rhetoric.
"The question is whether the Conservative party is more willing to take a risk and enact some policy anyway," says Fetner.
The
debate in Canada is complicated by the fact that unlike in the U.S.,
where abortion rights are protected by law, abortion in Canada exists in
a legal grey area. There are no laws prohibiting abortion or
guaranteeing access to it.
Within the health care system, however, abortion is strictly regulated.
Hamilton Health Sciences, for example, will perform abortions up to 17 weeks gestation. St. Joseph's Hospital, a Catholic institution, does not perform abortions.
Dr.
Dustin Costescu, a family planning specialist in the department of
obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster University, says every hospital
has its own limits on when it will perform abortions based on
gestational age. Roughly 80 per cent of abortions happen within the
first trimester.
Ironically,
Costescu says, women who need abortions later in their pregnancies
(usually due to medical reasons, such as the mother's health or problems
with the developing fetus) have to travel to the U.S., as it's
virtually impossible to find a practitioner in Canada who will perform
abortions after 23 or 24 weeks.
Canadian anti-abortion advocates are watching the situation in the U.S. very closely.
Gwen
Landolt is national vice-president and legal council for Real Women of
Canada, a group that lobbies against abortion. She says there is a
growing frustration among anti-abortion groups about the perceived
ability to express their viewpoint.
"We're
not allowed to speak out unless we speak in accordance with the
politically correct," Landolt says. "I think what we see in the United
States is encouraging us to reject this narrowing of freedom of speech."
Though
she won't say whether she thinks anti-abortion groups are any closer to
meeting their goals, Landolt does expect the issue to "break through,"
thanks to widespread frustration.
"I think it's going to erupt somewhere, because you can't prevent people from speaking out on any issue."
The growing chorus of anti-abortion sentiment is also mobilizing the pro-choice movement, Fetner says.
"A
whole generation of women have grown up thinking their reproductive
rights are under their control — now that seems like it's at risk," she
said. "It's no surprise to me to see that activism is on the rise on the
pro-choice side. It's a very scary time for women."
Monday, June 3, 2019
Out Of The Shadows: A Memoir byTimea Nagy, Shannon Moroney
Out Of The Shadows: A Memoir
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5 short videos and photos of the evening presentation
by paul Lauzon, Events Photographer
SEE STORY after the photos (at the bottom)
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9364355-human-trafficking-survivor-timea-nagy-is-out-of-the-shadows-with-new-memoir/
SEE STORY after the photos (at the bottom)
https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9364355-human-trafficking-survivor-timea-nagy-is-out-of-the-shadows-with-new-memoir/
Human trafficking survivor Timea Nagy is ‘Out of the Shadows’ with new memoir
Nagy’s advocacy work included running Walk With Me in Hamilton
"The book is the most honest version of what happened," she said, in an interview with The Spectator. Writing it was "very difficult, very scary . . and healing."
Too often her story has been oversimplified, with Nagy perpetually portrayed in a "victim box," she said. Nobody asked her about what her life was like in Hungary, what made her vulnerable to trafficking and what choices she made.
"I think what's in the book is my real relationship with my mom and how that actually affected me ... affected my decision to come to Canada," she said.
In the book Nagy talks about her upbringing in communist Hungary, her emotionally fraught relationship with her mother, a police officer, and her father leaving the family.
"The truth is victims are flawed and all do things we shouldn't ... people are flawed, but most don't pay such a big price," she said.
The idea to write a memoir had been simmering for a while, especially after meeting her coauthor Moroney, the bestselling author of "Through the Glass" — the story of her late husband's violent crimes and incarceration.
But she didn't want her mom, with whom she had a renewed
relationship, reading everything she went through. So Nagy held off,
until after her mother's death in 2015.
There were a lot of red flags when 20-year-old Nagy responded to an add looking for Hungarian babysitters in Canada. But she ignored them because she was in serious debt and desperate for money, the book reveals.
The girls were told they worked for an "agency" and needed to
work off debts owed for their travel and entry in Canada, plus ongoing
fees for everything imaginable, including $20 motel towels and $350
weekly oil changes. No matter how long they worked and how much money
they brought in the debts only grew.
When she escaped there were no human trafficking laws in Canada and her trafficker in Toronto was charged with sexual assault, but found not guilty.
It would take her years to realize she was a human trafficking victim — a revelation that led her to publicly share her story, and work with victim advocacy.
Police began to hear her story and call her to help victims, including RCMP officers Lepa Jankovic and Husam Farah who called her for help with the Domotor-Kolompar case.
In Hamilton she began working at all hours responding to calls to rescue victims.
At one event where she was a guest speaker she approached afterwards by Hamilton lawyer Rob Hooper and his wife Jill Trites, who has worked in various businesses including church leadership. They helped Nagy make Walk With Me into a real charity, including offering space in Hooper's Hamilton law office.
Walk With Me expanded to operating safe houses, but eventually had to close because of a lack of sustainable funding.
Yet Nagy says her time in Hamilton was where she "ended up growing up."
"The most exhilarating time of my life was in Hamilton," she said, adding that it also taught her there were still good people in the world.
Her work in Hamilton gave her the knowledge to move on to her next venture, a for-profit business Timea's Cause, based in Cambridge, Ont., that includes workshops and other educational opportunities to train everyone from bank employees to police on how to spot human trafficking and deal with victims. She employs survivors in the work, including Timea's Market where they sell handmade bath and beauty products.
Last September Nagy got married in Hooper and Trites's backyard.
While human trafficking remains a complex issue that is widespread in Canada, the country has come a long way with more awareness, stricter laws and some supports for victims.
"There are so many things going wrong with the world, we're so bombarded with bad things ... I want to spread the light," Nagy said. "The light is the love that I got from Canadian people."
Out of the Shadows: a memoir, published by Penguin Random House Canada, is available across North America May 28.
noreilly@thespec.com
905-526-3199 | @NicoleatTheSpec
noreilly@thespec.com
905-526-3199 | @NicoleatTheSpec
There were a lot of red flags when 20-year-old Nagy responded to an add looking for Hungarian babysitters in Canada. But she ignored them because she was in serious debt and desperate for money, the book reveals.
Over time Nagy goes from believing she will be a
babysitter, to working strip clubs and the sex trade. She was
threatened, starved, isolated and taught to fear anyone outside her
traffickers and fellow victims.
When she escaped there were no human trafficking laws in Canada and her trafficker in Toronto was charged with sexual assault, but found not guilty.
It would take her years to realize she was a human trafficking victim — a revelation that led her to publicly share her story, and work with victim advocacy.
Police began to hear her story and call her to help victims, including RCMP officers Lepa Jankovic and Husam Farah who called her for help with the Domotor-Kolompar case.
In Hamilton she began working at all hours responding to calls to rescue victims.
At one event where she was a guest speaker she approached afterwards by Hamilton lawyer Rob Hooper and his wife Jill Trites, who has worked in various businesses including church leadership. They helped Nagy make Walk With Me into a real charity, including offering space in Hooper's Hamilton law office.
Walk With Me expanded to operating safe houses, but eventually had to close because of a lack of sustainable funding.
Yet Nagy says her time in Hamilton was where she "ended up growing up."
"The most exhilarating time of my life was in Hamilton," she said, adding that it also taught her there were still good people in the world.
Her work in Hamilton gave her the knowledge to move on to her next venture, a for-profit business Timea's Cause, based in Cambridge, Ont., that includes workshops and other educational opportunities to train everyone from bank employees to police on how to spot human trafficking and deal with victims. She employs survivors in the work, including Timea's Market where they sell handmade bath and beauty products.
Last September Nagy got married in Hooper and Trites's backyard.
While human trafficking remains a complex issue that is widespread in Canada, the country has come a long way with more awareness, stricter laws and some supports for victims.
"There are so many things going wrong with the world, we're so bombarded with bad things ... I want to spread the light," Nagy said. "The light is the love that I got from Canadian people."
Out of the Shadows: a memoir, published by Penguin Random House Canada, is available across North America May 28.
noreilly@thespec.com
905-526-3199 | @NicoleatTheSpec
noreilly@thespec.com
905-526-3199 | @NicoleatTheSpec
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