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www.theinterim.com PAGE 2 — THE INTERIM, JULY/AUGUST 2020 Trudeau Taxpayer-funded abortion group suggests government banning National March for Life adjusts Paul Tuns ers are more concerned advocates to “suppress the ginalized youth;” $22,000 just $344,000 in govern- COVID-19 about “controlling bod- voice of the pro-life move- on October 11, 2018, from ment funding. Maloney The federally funded ies by punishing people ment,” citing their support Status of Women Canada observed “the large dis- relief loan Action Canada for Sexual who step out of line with for anti-free speech bubble to lobby “to advance the crepancy between what Health and Rights has hint- patriarchy,” than they are laws, harassment of pro- rights of women and the government reports as ed it is time to shut down Christianity. life supporters who dem- girls” at the International grants to them vs. what eligibility Campaign Life Coalition’s Prasad and Onofrio onstrate, and dismissing Parliamentarians’ they reported to the CRA.” Lianne Laurence annual National March for then note that several pro-life arguments as mere Conference on the Action Canada is not Special to The Interim Life. U.S. states and the Trump religious opinion. “They “Implementation only a registered charity, it Sandeep Prasad, execu- administration have been see the March for Life as of the International is a registered lobbyist in The Trudeau government tive director of Action “rolling back (abortion) a threat and since they Conference on Population Ottawa. updated eligibility require- Canada for Sexual Health rights” and therefore there can’t deny what science and Development;” Action Canada is heav- ments for a COVID-19 and Rights, and Rev. is no such thing “just a says about the humanity $10,887,328 over five years ily involved in lobbying emergency relief business Alba Onofrio, director of harmless march.” The of children in the womb, beginning in January 2020 at the United Nations for loan to explicitly recognize Soulforce, co-wrote at rab- authors add that Canada and the inalienable right to from Global Affairs Canada global access to abor- the legal rights of religious ble.ca, a left-wing website is “far from immune to life that all human beings for an international proj- tion – including maintain- groups after LifeSiteNews that the National March for misogyny, homophobia, possess, they go after the ect called “Rights From ing an office in Geneva reported on the matter Life is “the largest demon- and transphobia,” before religious beliefs of those the Start” that pushes for – and it also turns around and 5,082 people signed stration against the right to quoting domestic violence who oppose abortion.” legal abortion and “the and advises Global Affairs a LifeSiteNews petition choose,” and that though statistics. Wojciechowski said fulfillment of sexual and Canada, providing input requesting what the gov- this year’s actual march They call for people to whereas the pro-life move- reproductive rights in tar- on international develop- ernment ended up doing. in the nation’s capital was support “reproductive and ment relies on grassroots geted districts” in Bolivia, ment and population poli- LifeSiteNews reported in cancelled, they wondered, sexual health care, includ- supporters, pro-abortion Ecuador, Guyana and Peru. cies abroad. It has helped April that Canada’s Liberal “what will it take to can- ing abortion,” “bubble NGOs like Action Canada According to Revenue develop Justin Trudeau’s government was forcing cel the ‘March for Life’ for zone laws in your area,” for Sexual Health and Canada, Action Canada feminist foreign policy and businesses, non-profits, good?” and urge MPs to “protect Rights rely on government had total expenses of urged increases in foreign and registered charities Matthew Wojciechowski, human rights.” largesse. Action Canada $783,000 in 2015 and funding of abortion after that applied for the Canada vice president of Campaign Patricia Maloney, who was formed in 2014 with seven employees (four Donald Trump signed the Emergency Business Life Coalition, told The operates the Run With Life the merger of the Canadian full-time, three part-time, Mexico City memorandum Account (CEBA) to confirm Interim, that while not blog, wondered: “Should Federation for Sexual with no one making more outlawing funding of glob- they did not “discriminate” specifically calling upon a charity that receives mil- Health (formerly Planned than $80,000). By 2018, al organizations that pro- on the basis of “gender,” the government to ban the lions of dollars in taxpayer Parenthood Federation Action Canada had 18 full- mote or commit abortions. “sexual orientation,” and National March for Life, “it funded grants be in the of Canada), Canadians time and 10 part-time staff Furthermore, Action “religion,” among other is clear the authors are say- business of advocating for for Choice (formerly the (with five of them earning Canada’s 2019 annual things, in order to receive ing that the March for Life the repeal of Charter rights Canadian Abortion Rights at least $120,000), as it was report featured a pic- financial help. Applicants is dangerous and should of pro-life organizations?” Action League), and Action collecting nearly $344,000 ture of then minister for who didn’t confirm the be stopped.” Wojciechowski said Canada for Population and in government funding. women and gender equal- “non-discrimination” Saying that they were that Action Canada – Development. By comparison, they raise ity Maryam Monsef speak- clause were not eligible “confident abortion is not which should not be con- While Action Canada about $349,000 in receipt- ing at one of their meet- to receive the CEBA, an under threat in Canada,” fused with the pro-life is a registered charity, it ed donations. ings. interest-free loan of up to Prasad and Onofrio said Action4Canada – “used to gets most of its funds from In 2019, the most recent Wojciechowski says the $40,000 that is part of the that abortion opponents be a collection of fringe government. As Maloney year for which data is avail- taxpayer bankrolling of Liberal economic relief also oppose LGBTQ+ groups … ignored by has discovered, the NGO able, Action Canada report- Action Canada has to stop. package for Canadians rights, including same-sex Canadians,” but “today, is earmarked to receive ed government funding of “The Trudeau government suffering hardship due “marriage” and bans on so- they are given millions of $14 million by 2024 from $980,419 or about 27.8 per is using millions of to coronavirus pandemic called conversion therapy, taxpayer dollars by Justin the Trudeau Liberals. cent of its revenue, and Canadian tax dollars shutdowns. and “the right to die” and Trudeau.” The funding, Specifically, it received just $282,509 in receipted- to fund an organization A CEBA applicant was promiscuous sex-ed cur- Wojciechowski explained, $232,834 in April 2017 donations, or about eight that in turn uses those originally asked to confirm ricula. “gives them influence in from the Public Health per cent of revenues. funds to lobby that same that “it does not promote Onofrio, in his work Canada and at the United Agency of Canada to sup- But as Maloney has government. Trudeau violence, incite hatred or with the Texas-based Nations,” that they would port community-based found, according to the doesn’t need convincing discriminate on the basis LGBTQ+ advocacy group not have otherwise. The projects “which address Government of Canada on these issues,” he told of sex, gender, sexual ori- Soulforce, has cam- financial support from the root causes of health Grants and Contribution LifeSiteNews. “This group entation, race, ethnicity, paigned against so-called Ottawa allows Action inequalities;” $3,101,379 database, Ottawa has should be completely religion, culture, religion, Christian supremacy “that Canada to “rub shoulders over five years beginning given Action Canada defunded. Defund Action education, age or mental is used to harm margin- with other globalists and in March 2018 from the more than $14 million in Canada for Sexual Health or physical disability.” alized peoples,” includ- cultural Marxists at our Public Health Agency of grants, including a sin- and Rights – has a nice LifeSiteNews launched a ing campaigning against expense.” Canada for a “social market- gle contribution of $3.1 ring to it. Perhaps we petition asking the Trudeau abortion. Onofrio says Wojciechowski said ing campaign to increase million in March 2018, a should start a hashtag and government to add the that “anti-choice” support- it is typical for abortion STTI testing among mar- year in which it reported a campaign.” phrase “contrary to appli- cable laws” to the clause, based on an analysis by CPC leadership news roundup Marty Moore, a lawyer for the Calgary-based Justice French debate choice. I agree with gay mar- family is the “cornerstone of afraid to talk about values,” life, without apology.” He Centre for Constitutional riage. I can win in Ontario society.” and “cannot ignore divi- stressed that, “Abortion is Freedoms (JCCF). This During the June 17 and Atlantic Canada, and I sion,” because “the Liberals not health care,” noting, “It proviso is crucial to recog- French-language debate, can strengthen our base in English debate run divisive campaigns.” He destroys lives, dreams, and nizing freedom of religion Conservative Party leader- the West. That’s what we insisted that “social conser- happiness. It portrays preg- and conscience in this case, ship contender Erin O’Toole have to do. We have to take a vatives can win with princi- nancy as a hopeless situa- Moore told LifeSiteNews at said, “As a prime minister, position where we welcome pled stands.” He added that tion. It offers the death of the time. “A religious orga- I will defend the rights of everybody.” Campaign Life it is not right that Canada a child as the path to free- nization has a legal right people including women to Coalition national president has no abortion law and said dom.” Sloan then said talk to hire those who align choose for themselves when told The Interim: “There is that the situation “puts us about the right to abortion with its beliefs to carry out it comes to abortion. And no position that ‘welcomes out of whack with most of is a “lie” because “there its religious purposes,” he if you hear anything to the everybody’ when it comes the developed world.” Lewis is no legal ‘right’ to abor- pointed out. “The law per- contrary tonight, it will be a to abortion and same-sex said “social conservatism is tion in Canada, no matter mits that.” lie.” Puzzlingly, this answer ‘marriage’.” CLC tweeted a very, very important part how many times certain If the Liberals added “the came in response to a ques- that “no self-respecting pro- of our party” and “tradi- politicians lie and say that appropriate caveat ‘con- tion about national defense. life Conservative should tional and religious values there is.” He explained that trary to applicable laws’ ... Earlier, Peter MacKay said to rank O’Toole on the ballot.” are important to our democ- Canada has no law after the in the fourth attestation, O’Toole: “Your whole cam- Sloan addressed abortion racy.” Throughout the eve- Supreme Court struck down that would provide the paign is based on lies. Are you during his opening remarks, ning, Lewis said government Canada’s permissive abor- correct legal standard, and pro-choice or what? Tell us, saying, “Pregnancy is not a should do more to promote tion law in 1988. Noting the theoretically allow non-dis- tell us.” O’Toole calls himself disease; abortion cannot be family as “the bedrock of Court “called on Parliament criminatory access to the a “True Blue Conservative” health care. As prime minis- our society,” and commit- to put in place new laws,” CEBA,” Moore observed. and has said all types of con- ter, I would prevent Canada ted to enacting legislation to he said “so far, Parliament But without that explicit servatives, including social from funding abortions During the English- protect parental rights. Erin has abdicated its responsibil- acknowledgment, “a reli- conservatives, would be wel- internationally and encour- language debate, Derek O’Toole and Peter MacKay ity to do so.” Sloan said that gious organization that come as supporters of the age debate.” During a scrum talked about social conserva- abortion would likely never hires in accordance with Conservatives. Before the Sloan provided some after the debate, O’Toole details of his 12-point tives when discussing party be a settled issue and that he its religious beliefs may be debate, O’Toole had pitched reiterated, “I am pro-choice” unity and conceded that promises to not only permit, pro-life plan. precluded from agreeing to himself as the “second and “I’ve always said I will social conservatives have a but encourage discussion this attestation,” he said. choice” of social conserva- defend all rights, including place in their party while about the issue and would “Some religious organi- tives according to a video The second question of rights for women, that’s a the June 18 English debate offering no policy to attract vote for pro-life measures zations are very scrupulous leaked to the media. Derek pro-choice position. It’s their social conservative support. brought before Parliament, as to what they sign, we all Sloan and Leslyn Lewis – came from a grassroots mem- decision, not mine, and I will ber who asked about the including Cathay Wagantall’s learnt that from the sum- deemed the only support- defend their right to make Sloan says ‘no right’ private member’s bill out- mer jobs program; it’s pos- able candidates by Campaign role of social conservatives that decision.” Lewis did in the CPC, and it was given to abortion lawing sex-selective abor- sible they’ll self-select out.” Life Coalition -- are pro-life, not mention abortion dur- tion. Sloan noted he is An alert reader informed while MacKay is pro-abor- to Sloan and Lewis during On June 3, Derek Sloan ing the debate but did say their head-to-head exchange. offering the “clearest and LifeSiteNews in an email tion. MacKay said during more needed to be done to sent an email to support- Sloan said “we cannot be See, ‘Sloan’ p. 3 See, ‘Liberals’ p. 10 the French debate: “I’m pro- protect the elderly and that ers that began: “I am pro- THE INTERIM, JULY/AUGUST 2020 — PAGE 3 Over one third of Ontario’s English Catholic Fads, fallacies, school boards support ‘Pride Month’ and flags Lianne Laurence fests pride” for “those in that it was not flying the mitted to nurturing safe & Special to The Interim our community who iden- rainbow flag. inclusive learning environ- tify as LGBTQ+” in a refer- WCDSB’s schools will ments where everyone is Eleven of Ontario’s 29 ence to June as the month still display the “Catholic welcome, valued & respect- English Catholic school devoted to the Sacred Pride” flag in entrances ed.” boards explicitly acknowl- Heart of Jesus. in the coming year, while The Ottawa Catholic edged June as “Pride Now the Kenora, the board consults with School Board tweeted: Month,” even though Simcoe-Muskoka, St. “the LGBTQ community” “June is Pride Month! We “Pride” events are known Clair, Niagara, York, and about next year, it said at continue to honour the for celebrating homosexu- Wellington Catholic school that time. WCDSB’s direc- dignity of every person, ality, transsexualism, and boards have acknowledged tor of education, Loretta embracing diversity and other sexually deviant “Pride Month” either on Notten, told local media creating welcoming places behaviors. social media or their web- the flag was one of a num- for all. We are all won- The Catholic boards sites. Dufferin-Peel and ber of options designed by derfully made. We love acknowledged “Pride Northwest Catholic school the Institute of Catholic because he first loved us. Month” in the context of boards also posted mes- Education. (1 John 4:19).” assurances that Catholic sages strongly signaling The Kenora Catholic The Dufferin-Peel schools are inclusive and acknowledgement of “Pride District School Board Catholic District School welcoming to all and often Month” but stopped short announced on its web- Board, headquartered used the tagline: “We are of explicitly doing so. site and Facebook that it in Mississauga, tweeted all wonderfully made,” The York Catholic “recognizes Pride Month,” an image of the rainbow Commentary with an illustration incor- District School Board along with a photo of the with a message that LGBT Donald DeMarco porating the rainbow, the tweeted a message rainbow flag. “While the students face discrimina- symbol of homosexual Thursday repeating almost global pandemic means tion and Catholic schools t. Jerome’s University, in Waterloo, Ont., and pur- activism. verbatim the statement things will look different should be welcoming to Sportedly a Catholic institution, has decided to fly the While the Catechism of by Toronto’s Catholic this year, the month of June all: “Students who iden- LGBTQ flag on its campus to celebrate “Pride” month. the Catholic Church teach- board: “June is tradition- continues to be celebrated tify as LGBTQ+ often face Interim President Scott Kline, whose term began on July es that unjust discrimina- ally devoted to the sacred as PRIDE month in Kenora. discrimination. We are all 1, 2019, defended the action as a way of sending the tion toward persons with heart of Jesus which is a This month, and each and created in the image and message that “all are welcome in this place.” The imme- same-sex inclinations can symbol of God’s boundless every month, our Catholic likeness of God, deserv- diate reaction to the move has shown significant evi- never be condoned, it also [love] for all. June is also schools are committed to ing of dignity and respect. dence of outrage and division. Catholics do not believe teaches that homosexual #PrideMonth.” nurturing safe and inclu- Discrimination under- that we can serve God and mammon at the same time. acts are gravely evil and mines the dignity of indi- It is an odd thing for a university to “welcome” that the same-sex inclina- viduals.” everyone since not everyone who applies is admitted. tion itself is objectively dis- CLC’s Fonseca called Sexual lifestyle does not qualify anyone for admission. ordered. on the bishops of every Therefore, those who are not admitted are not welcomed “It’s unbelievable. “affected diocese” to “pub- “in this place.” “Welcome” is a politically correct buzz- This heresy has spread licly condemn this coun- word that is intended to make everyone feel comfortable. faster than the Wuhan ter-witness to the Gospel But in the world of academe, rejection, firings, dismiss- virus, infecting one-third of Jesus Christ, while also als, and failures, are a daily occurrence. of Ontario’s so-called speaking to the Board I taught at St. Jerome’s for 30 years. Logic was the ‘Catholic’ school boards of Trustees behind the one subject I taught most often. I recall explaining the with a spiritually dead- scenes to demand that they “fallacy of accent” to my students. I used the example ly disease,” commented renounce their support for of “Today the captain is sober,” which places the accent Jack Fonseca, director of homosexual Pride celebra- on “today” and suggests that the captain is not sober on political operations for tions.” If the bishops do other days. In selecting the LGBTQ consortium to offer a Campaign Life Coalition. not act, faithful Catholic sign of welcome may lead one to infer that other groups “I’m sad to say it, but those parents should “meet, in are not welcome. What about that much maligned group boards can no longer be person, with their child’s that identifies itself as “pro-life”? Where is their flag? And what about plumbers, carpenters, masons, handy-men, considered truly Catholic. This is the image on the flag Waterloo Catholic District teacher and school prin- They’ve moved into a dif- cipal” in September “to and construction workers? To single out one group and School Board (WCDSB) announced would fly at all reject all the rest does not serve the purpose of welcom- ferent realm of spiritual schools during June. express their expectation belief, I’m not sure what, that their children will not ing everyone. maybe pagan,” he told The Niagara Catholic sive learning environ- be exposed to Gay Pride The Catholic Church teaches that it is an insult to LifeSiteNews. school board tweeted that ments where every student flags nor other Gay Pride anyone to be identified according to his sexual prefer- “All of the trustees and it was “pleased to recognize and every member of the Month celebrations, even if ence. It can serve as a stigma. Being called “illegitimate,” administration staff in Pride Month in Ontario. community is welcomed, that it is requested by the thankfully, is a stigma that we have pretty much expelled those boards who were We love and celebrate our valued, and respected,” administration,” he said. from our day-to-day vocabulary. The Catholic Church wel- involved in approving this students, staff and families KCDSB stated on Facebook. “If teachers and principals comes sinners, but only because She is confident, given celebration of homosexual for the uniqueness of who The Simcoe-Muskoka are forced to meet face to the possibility of grace and forgiveness, that being a sin- sin need to go to confes- they are.” The illustration it Catholic District School face with enough parents, ner is not a permanent condition. The Church welcomes sion and then make repa- used depicts Jesus with His Board both tweeted and hopefully they will ignore everyone, but She does not have admission require- rations by recanting this arms outstretched over an posted on Facebook the heretical demands of ments. anti-Christian stance.” array of rainbow-colored on June 3: “June is dissident school board Kline has made an egregious misstep which is not only LifeSiteNews has report- figures and the words “We #PrideMonth across trustees and directors of inconsistent with Catholic tradition, but with common ed that Ottawa, Waterloo, are all wonderfully made.” Canada. As Catholics, we education.” sense. Whether he realizes it or not, he is giving approval Algonquin/Lakeshore, and However, the board believe that we are won- to lifestyles that are injurious to families and incompat- Thunder Bay acknowledge changed its mind after derfully made in the image A version of this article ible with so fundamental a value as personal health. June as “Pride Month,” with backlash from pro-family & likeness of God, who originally appeared June 5 His interim term should soon come to an end. He has Toronto making a nod to it groups as well as LGBT loves us unconditionally— at LifeSiteNews.com and is brought disgrace to a long-standing Catholic institution. as the month that “mani- activists, who were upset just as we are. We’re com- reprinted with permission. By his own actions, he appears to be more committed to fads than to Catholic teaching. From a personal point of view, Kline has made me feel decidedly unwelcomed. I will not set foot on SJU soil as Sloan highlights social issues long as that flag is flapping in the breeze. Continued from p. 2 defund abortion at home social distancing that keep had more restrictions placed Professor Donald DeMarco, a regular contributor to The strongest pro-life policies of and abroad, including the us safe,” but not churches. on them than did restau- Interim, is professor emeritus at St. Jerome’s University, all the CPC leadership can- pro-abortion World Health “We could – and we should – rants, bars and stores. Sloan adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, didates,” with a comprehen- Organization, International be allowing religious congre- said, “It was a hurtful insult a regular columnist for the St. Austin Review, and author sive 12-point pro-life plan. Planned Parenthood, and gations to use their buildings to these Canadians to have of numerous books including How to Navigate Through He added that “two candi- Pride parades. Sloan once in the same way, with limited their places of worship clas- Life and Apostles of the Culture of Life. His next book is dates, Peter Mackay and Erin again said “Abortion is not seating and social distanc- sified as non-essential by Reflections on the COVID-19 Virus: A Search for Meaning, O’Toole, offer nothing for healthcare,” and that Justin ing of course, until it’s safe so many provincial govern- which is in production. pro-lifers in their campaign Trudeau’s agenda of “pro- to allow things to return to ments. This is just the same platforms,” and that he moting abortion in other ‘normal.’ Emergency pow- as telling these people of hoped “they smarten up, get countries is just a new cul- ers are intended to keep faith, who put God at the with the times, and accept tural colonialism.”m.” us safe, not to shred our centre of their life, that reli- the science that life begins at Charter-guaranteed rights gious worship is non-essen- conception.” Sloan stands up to freedom of conscience tial, that God doesn’t mat- for churches and religion and of peaceful ter.” Sloan vows to defund assembly.” He called upon pro-abortion groups Derek Sloan said in a the provinces to allow hous- Sloan comes out late-May email to support- es of worship to reopen and against C-8 In early June when ers that “God matters to a hold services while adher- “Defund the Police” was a lot of people.” Sloan said, ing to social distancing rules. Most of the Conservative popular slogan with Black “during this unprecedented “This is not a request for Party of Canada leadership Lives Matter protests in and trying time, we have special treatment, he wrote, campaign has been fought Canada and the United found ways for people to “but a request for equal treat- online, on social media States, Sloan committed get their groceries, to get ment.” Ontario and Alberta, and through email blasts to to supporting the police their alcohol, to get their among other provinces, in supporters and webinars. but wondered what else marijuana, and to get their late May and early June said In a leaked June 2 webi- Caleb, 10, of Russell, Ont., constructed a Lego March might be defunded. He takeout food, all the while that churches and temples nar reported by CTV News, for Life, using 80 mini-figures and hand-made pro-life reiterated that he would observing the protocols of could reopen but that they See, ‘MacKay’ p. 12 signs. PAGE 4 — THE INTERIM, JULY/AUGUST 2020 A fractured universalism he pandemic lockdowns had not tem might be charged with irredeem- Tbeen lifted before riots broke out able corruption – to say nothing of its across America, unrest which then complicity with the destruction of black spread throughout the Western world. life – it is the abortion-industrial com- Sparked by the stomach-churning video plex. And yet, faced with the heinous of a black man being suffocated by a evil of pre-natal infanticide, the pro-life white cop, the fires of outrage which movement has recourse not to riots but led to these riots have since cooled, and rosaries: Marches for Life, in Canada, the have now become smoldering piles of U.S., and across the world, are peace- suspicion. In corporate, academic, politi- ful and prayerful, conspicuous for their cal, and celebrity networks, statements cheerfulness and joy. We sing hymns; we of support circulate as much to express walk with hope; and we see the perpe- solidarity as to signal virtues and expose trators and supporters of abortion as the the ideologically impure. The bended second victims of that terrible crime. In knee and the repeated phrase “Black our view, the parents, the medical and Lives Matter” have become shibboleths, legal professionals, and the politicians tests by which racists are purportedly who participate in or support this odi- exposed. ous evil have themselves been wounded It goes without saying, of course, that and deceived. They, like the unborn vic- nothing could be more precious than life tims of abortion, are the objects of our – this fact is the bedrock on which our love and prayers. To them, we hold out own crusade on behalf of the unborn hands of empathy, compassion, healing, is founded. and forgiveness. Black life We in the pro-life movement know matters dear- that there is no such thing as “systemic” ly, especially injustice, because we know that sinful We cannot in the womb, acts – of racial prejudice or even mur- where it is der – are always the acts of individuals, give any ground menaced and and they can, therefore, be forgiven and maimed with amended. Those who have been harmed to social forces disgraceful by the evil of abortion are not beyond impunity. redemption. Indeed, former members that admit Thus, if the of the abortion industry from Bernard “Black Lives Nathanson to Abby Johnson have exceptions to Matter” become the loudest, clearest voices on movement behalf of the victims who suffer silently the human family were true to in the womb. that name, its To contaminate any system with supporters an indistinct accusation is to lay the would not groundwork for more injustice, not less. The Interim welcomes letters of 300 words have converged on police precincts nor In fact, while the slogan, “Black Lives would they be toppling the statues of Matter” can be charitably read as a pro- or fewer. Letters may be edited. Please send to: forgotten confederates or Renaissance- test, an objection to the shameful fact era explorers. They would, instead, have that some lives are implicitly excluded The Interim 157 Catharine St. N. headed to the places where black life is from the statement, “all lives matter,” Hamilton, ON, L8L 4S4 being destroyed on an almost unthink- one can also hear, in the insistence of a E-mail: [email protected] able scale, to the places where black distinction, a fracturing of the universal- Letters Fax: (416) 204-1027 bodies are torn apart every day and ism that makes us all members of the their tiny organs trafficked for profit – a same human family. Nothing good can Open letter to PM re: vaccines do more harm than good. practice which draws uncomfortable but come from such a rupture. Last summer, Aborted baby fetal tissue cell line clear parallels with the slave trade of for instance, the student protestors on Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and HEK293 derived vaccine Ad5-nCov is the old. “Black Lives Matter” activists should the streets of Hong Kong reacted with political party leaders” worlds first coronavirus vaccine to be be working tirelessly to purge the mem- prescient alarm when the state police Sending this to you in the hopes you approved in human clinical tests. It “could ory – and stop the ongoing work – of began referring to them as “cockroach- can confirm this article is “Fake News” be the mark of the beast vaccine.” one of the 20th-century’s most virulent es.” They rightly drew the troubling thanks for your attention to this. Jerome Desilets and destructive racists, Margaret Sanger, parallels between previous genocides in The June edition of The Interim news- Via email the still-lauded founder of Planned Rwanda and Germany where dehuman- paper reported Health Canada is approv- Parenthood. But, instead of working to ization in language preceded barbaric ing human clinical trials using aborted Fr. de Valk’s influence prevent the daily destruction of black life programs of real extermination. And baby fetal tissue cell line HEK293 derived in the womb, this movement has taken we in the pro-life movement know all vaccine Ad5-nCov (“Canada approves Thank you for The Interim and especially aim at something called “systemic rac- too well that the dehumanization of the trial of unethical coronavirus vaccine”). the article on Fr. de Valk (“Fr. Alphonse de ism.” unborn, with euphemisms like “clump The aborted baby tissue fetal cell line Valk, RIP,” May). An intentionally vague term, systemic of cells” or foreign-sounding technical HEK293 was developed by and is owned I am only two years younger than him, racism is in the eye of the rebellious terms like “fetus,” have enabled their by Canada’s National Research Council. born in 1934. Catholic Insight was essen- beholder, and it has been used to indict murder. The NRC is working with Chinese Firm tially what persuaded me to become a everything from social structures and We cannot, therefore, give any ground CanoSino Biologics Inc. to test and devel- Catholic, after a lifetime as a Christian, psychological patterns. Two important to social forces that admits exceptions to op Ad5-nCoV in Canada according to the and a member successively of the Church consequences follow from its use. First, the human family. All lives matter; and Interim newspaper. Prime Minister Justin of England, the Methodist Church (both in by making a nebulous “system” the elu- the murder of anyone be they black or Trudeau announced the collaboration and England) then the Anglican Church here sive source of evil, social activists with white, born or unborn, is intolerable. was quoted in the article that clinical trials in Canada. radical left-wing agendas have convinced It is the height of hypocrisy for political would take time and must be done right. Thank you for everything you have those in the demoralized, guilt-ridden radicals to exploit victims of violence The article reports clinical trials will done and are doing. West that everything from their culture to advance their agenda, all the while involve 600 people and the director and Jeannie L’Esperance to their individual psyches are in need ignoring the daily plight of the unborn. his team overseeing the trials in Halifax Ottawa of extreme changes. But – and this is Western culture is in desperate need said they will not wait for full results from the second point – systemic racism of healing, but not because an undefined one stage to the next, but rather conduct Fr. de Valk’s influence (II) makes such extreme changes necessary demon lurks in the shadows of its sys- the tests in a more accelerated fashion, precisely by collapsing the vital distinc- tems. Rather, we have been harmed by without sacrificing safety. Normal safety I am sorry for the loss to The Interim and tion, so central to Christianity, between decades of corrosive violence against the protocols are being suspended to get a Campaign Life Coalition families with the agent and action, sinner and sin. This unborn and, more recently, by provoca- vaccine to market as quickly as possible. passing of Fr. de Valk. He seemed like a distinction is the basis for redemption teurs who conceal that very violence and Forbes magazine reports that the average great man. His writings were clear and on a personal level and reform on an who stoke only the flames of outrage time it takes a vaccine to reach market is crisp, his principles unwavering, and his institutional one. Without it, there is no that further their own purposes. But 10-15 years. example unsurpassed. His pro-life battles hope. In such a paradigm, mobs are only peace on the streets starts with safety in Vaccine Choice Canada founded by in Saskatchewan and Alberta are legend- placated when scapegoats are broken or the womb, and our unravelling world families who have suffered from vaccine ary. The pro-life movement, the Catholic when the extant system is smashed. needs the pro-life movement’s unifying reactions or injuries, said the source of the Church, and Canada has lost a giant. Here, a telling contrast can be made message of universal justice now more vaccine should be a concern for everyone Robert Totten with the pro-life movement. 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The Charter protects judicial activism? the rights of atheists, agnostics and theists alike to pon- Law Matters der life’s most important questions: why do we exist? What moral code should we follow when living out our John Carpay lives? The Charter places the onus on politicians – not the National Affairs citizens who elected them – to justify “demonstrably” any measure that violates our freedom to move, travel, Rory Leishman assemble, associate and worship. Politicians are required n April, Ontario Premier Doug Ford denounced by the Charter to show that lockdown measures actually Ipeople who were protesting against the lockdown as do more good than harm. “absolutely irresponsible, selfish, reckless, law-breaking Most of Canada’s religious leaders have joined politi- yahoos.” In Alberta, lone protester Cody Haller was cians and chief medical officers in accepting the wildly arrested and dragged out of the Alberta legislature inaccurate claims of Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial hould morally enlightened judges strike down any grounds by sheriffs on May 11 and slapped with a $1200 College, who predicted in March 2020 that as many as Sstatute that sanctions pornography, abortion, or eutha- ticket. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms 510,000 people in the United Kingdom would die of nasia? is representing several individuals who received tickets COVID-19, along with 2,200,000 Americans. The late, great Antonin Scalia did not think so. As a and huge fines after peacefully exercising their Charter Inexplicably, most religious leaders continue to accept devout Catholic, he clearly understood that pornogra- freedoms to speak, move, travel, associate, assemble, the political claims that were made in March, but which phy, abortion, and euthanasia are unmitigated evils, yet and worship. have proven to be false. By early May, we knew that 95 as one of the most learned judges ever to serve on the But now politicians are just fine with blatant per cent of COVID-19 deaths occurred amongst those Supreme Court of the United States, he insisted that it is violations of social distancing, if it occurs at anti-racism 60 and older, with more than two-thirds of COVID-19 not unelected judges, but elected representatives of the rallies. deaths in people 80 and over, and next-to-zero deaths people who have the constitutional authority and the On May 30, over 3,000 anti-racism protesters crowded among people under 20. COVID-19 tragically targets moral obligation to eliminate immoral statute laws. into downtown Toronto, disregarding social distancing. the same demographics as the annual flu. This is what As a general rule, Scalia held that judges should not Our Prime Minister did so as well, at a different protest. publicly available government data is telling us about legislate from the bench, but stick to upholding the plain Yet Ford did not denounce these anti-racism protesters COVID, from provinces, states, and countries around the words of the laws and the Constitution as duly enacted (or the Prime Minister) as “irresponsible, selfish, world. Religious leaders who love truth owe it to them- and originally understood. reckless, law-breaking yahoos.” Where is the science? selves – and to their congregations – to acquaint them- On this basis, Scalia voted time and again as a Supreme Apparently, in Ford’s mind, COVID-19 is a political virus selves with facts. Court justice to reverse Roe v. Wade and other similar that knows the difference between a protest against The global COVID-19 death toll (431,000 as of June judicial errors which purported to discover an implicit racism and a protest against the violation of our Charter 13) is within the range of deaths resulting from the right to abortion hidden in the United States Constitution. freedoms. annual flu. The annual flu unfortunately claims between However, that is as far as Scalia was willing to go on this According to “Ford science,” COVID-19 is a deadly 290,000 and 640,000 lives each year, mostly those who subject. In a May 2002 First Things article “God’s Justice killer for Orthodox Jews, who for months on end were are elderly and already very sick. In some years the num- and Ours,” he maintained: “If a state were to permit abor- denied their minyan, the quorum of ten adult men that bers are far higher: the 1957–1958 “Asian flu” and the tion on demand, I would – and could in good conscience their faith requires in order to hold a prayer meeting. 1968–1969 “Hong Kong flu” each took one million lives – vote against an attempt (by the Supreme Court) to But COVID-19 somehow does not threaten thousands of around the world. invalidate that law for the same reason that I vote against anti-racism protesters marching side-by-side. According Ignoring readily available facts, the majority of the invalidation of laws that forbid abortion on demand: to “Ford science,” COVID-19 is so dangerous that it was Canada’s religious leaders are causing their congrega- because the Constitution gives the federal government necessary to shut down churches, mosques, synagogues tions to live in a state of fear, as though COVID-19 is (and hence me) no power over the matter.” and temples for months on end, but COVID-19 poses something like the bubonic plague: a very serious threat On this point, Adrian Vermeule, a professor of law at little risk at Walmart, and at liquor and marijuana to everyone, regardless of age or health. In contrast Harvard and a recent Catholic convert, fundamentally dis- outlets. to the layman, religious leaders have a higher duty: to agrees. In a controversial article in The Atlantic, “Beyond Likewise, neither Alberta Premier Jason Kenney nor acquaint themselves with the facts, rather than permit Originalism,” he argues that Scalia was wrong to hold that Chief Medical Officer Deena Hinshaw expressed any themselves to be led about by dubious political claims. judges, as judges, have no authority to rewrite the laws outrage or condemnation over the violation of social dis- There is no wisdom in cooperating with government and the Constitution to conform with their judicial under- tancing at anti-racism rallies in Alberta. violations of a fundamental Charter freedom. Doing so standing of morality. Now that Messrs. Ford, Kenney, Trudeau (and many is foolish if not suicidal. According to Vermeule, the problem with judicial activ- other politicians) have rejected social distancing as ists on the Supreme Court of the United States over the medically or scientifically necessary, why are so many of Lawyer John Carpay is president of the Justice Centre past 60 years is not that they legislated from the bench, Canada’s religious leaders still participating actively in for Constitutional Freedoms (jccf.ca). but that they did so by imposing a wrongheaded, “con- ventionally left-liberal” set of “substantive moral com- mitments and priorities” including legalized abortion on demand and same-sex marriage. Moving In contrast to Scalia, who opposed judicial activism picture. What is work for? As Sean Speers, a former policy in principle, Vermeule favors judicial activism, but only advisor to Stephen Harper, says, work is about more than as practiced by enlightened judges who take “a robust, a paycheck, it is about the non-financial benefits of work. substantively conservative approach to constitutional law Some of those include dignity, self-worth, and sense of pur- and interpretation” that includes “a candid willingness pose. Another, Speers says, is interaction with co-workers to ‘legislate morality’.” Although Vermeule does not say and customers. It ties us to a group of people we might so explicitly, it is clear from the tenor of his argument not know otherwise. I don’t consider my work colleagues that he, unlike Scalia, thinks conservative judges should family, but they are an important community, especially have no compunction about amending or striking down considering that we share core values about life, faith, and any constitutional provision or statute law that permits family. We are models of faith and family to each other, sup- induced abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage or any porting what often seems to be counter-cultural lifestyles of other transgression of the divinely sanctioned natural fidelity to traditional ways of organizing our lives. moral law. The fact is, I probably would not be the Catholic I am What should we make of this argument? Russell today without seeing orthodox Christianity lived around Hittinger, Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and Research me by my co-workers; I’m not sure what my family life Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa, sides with From the editor’s desk would be like without witnessing so many large families Scalia. In The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law that I have come into contact with because of the pro-life in a Post-Christian World, Hittinger argues that under s I have noted in previous issues, we are putting this movement. some extreme circumstances, a judge should resign rather Apaper together remotely, from our homes. Since I My compromise between the various needs and wants than uphold an evil law, but “the judge, insofar as he is a returned from a brief vacation to the U.S. in early March, and desires when it comes to balancing work and fam- judge, is not entitled to plough ahead and substitute his I’ve been in quarantine with my family. A few days after we ily is that I will commute to Hamilton twice a week and own law for that of the legislator, whether the legislator is returned, the country underwent quarantine to battle the work from home three days a week, once commercial life divine or human.” spread of the coronavirus. The fact is, I probably prefer is reopened and life returns to normal. I do not (quite) Apart from this debate over the limits of judicial working from home, not commuting, and spending more share the pessimism of my friend Rick who said “they don’t authority as defined in natural law, how practical is time with my wife and the five kids that still have at home. seem to want us to be a society.” But to ensure that I am Vermeule’s proposal? Is it likely that the Supreme Court Not working in the office is not so much a challenge connected to others and have the relationships that make of the United States, which now consists of four left- as an opportunity lost. No longer is it so simple to com- us human and humane, it may be necessary to endure leaning judicial activists and five originalists in the Scalia miserate with colleagues at The Interim and Campaign Life the inconvenience of the 90-minute commute to our new mould, will end up any time soon with a majority of con- Coalition; emails, texts, and videoconferences are meagre offices. servative judicial activists dedicated to imposing the fun- substitutes for actual conversation. Many stories I write – Which brings me, finally, to emptying my Toronto damental principles of the natural and divine moral law? and sometimes chose to write about – are influenced by office. After 19 years, I have accumulated a bountiful set of Obviously not. If anything, Vermeule’s advocacy of judi- conversations with colleagues. Sometimes the importance newspaper clipping and other files and a nice collection cial activism could play into the hands of liberal pro-abor- of an article becomes clear after a conversation about it, of books. There is not room for it all in the new, smaller tion judges who might soon reconstitute a majority of other times I see a previously unconsidered angle. offices. The pandemic quarantine prevented a proper redis- the Supreme Court of the United States if Joe Biden, that As The Interim and CLC moves to Hamilton I thought of tribution of some of this material to those who may have shamelessly pro-abortion Catholic, wins the presidency. barely going into the office. It would be more convenient wanted what did not make the move to the new office or Be that as it may, it is noteworthy that by working on a personal level to avoid the three-hour round-trip my home office. I am genuinely sorry about that. through the democratic process rather than relying entire- commute by public transit, convenience that goes beyond I was surprised that I suffered no nostalgia whilst whit- ly on the courts, pro-lifers in the United States have made the bus or train ride itself and the time in commute: later tling what I was keeping and what would be donated, considerable legislative and judicial progress in many dinners, missing children’s performances and other school recycled, or trashed. Like the late Fr. Alphonse de Valk, I’m areas of the country in recent years. These pro-lifers, and events, having my ever-patient wife Christina bare a greater trained as a historian and value the substantial archives The their beleaguered counterparts in Canada, should con- burden of transporting kids to and from school and after- Interim and CLC have accumulated over decades. But ulti- tinue to do the same – strive for democratic, legislative school activities. mately, the office, the memories, the archives, is not about change, confident that in the dominant court of public I thought of the benefits of working from home and the things, but people. It is about co-workers, but more impor- opinion, the truth is bound eventually once again to pre- focus it provides without those distracting but ultimately tantly it is about those people vulnerable to the Culture of vail that all human beings have been endowed by their useful conversations. Death. Our work to protect them continues, regardless of Creator with an inalienable right to life from conception But then my thoughts turn, as they often do, to the big where I sit to put out The Interim each month. to natural death. 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U.S. states for declaring essential health care and Rights Education Institute, Since last October, his abortion a non-essential must remain available dur- University of Toronto); dale Golf C administration has ramped service during the COVID- ing the COVID-19 crisis. Elizabeth Broderick (a long- y Restrictions on access to f course I believe in ghosts. I’ve been one. So rr ou up its criticism of several 19 quarantine that shut time Sex Discrimination e r have most writers who detoured through public & D se United Nations efforts to down countless businesses, comprehensive reproduc- Commissioner in Australia); O promote abortion through churches, and charities, tive health information and Alda Facio (a founder of relations on the way to more honourable callings. various declarations and beginning in March. services, including abortion the Women’s Caucus for Chances are they’ve ghostwritten letters, speeches, policies. In the statement, the as well as contraception, Gender Justice at the articles, even books, not to mention jokes, apologies, Last year, Health and Working Group com- constitute human rights International Criminal eulogies, and marriage proposals. In public rela- Human Services Secretary plained that “some U.S. violations and can cause Court); Ivana Radačić (a tions, things are not as they seem. Alex Azar called for the states appear to be manip- irreversible harm, in partic- part-time lecturer at the For some years, I ghost wrote annual reports for term “sexual and reproduc- ulating the COVID-19 crisis ular to low-income women University of Zagreb, focus- the president of the institution that employed me tive health” – a term that to curb access to essen- and those belonging to ing on women’s rights); and letters, articles and briefs for the president of an includes abortion – to be tial abortion care,” and racial minorities and immi- and Melissa Upreti (a Nepal organization I volunteered with. I received no public deleted from several dif- named Alabama, Arkansas, grant communities.” lawyer who has worked credit for these editorial misrepresentations. Ghosts ferent UN declarations. Iowa, Louisiana, Ohio, The Working Group also with the U.S.-based Center rarely do. On May 18, John Barsa, Oklahoma, Tennessee, said it was “extremely con- for Reproductive Rights Looking back on my time as a ghost, I sometimes acting director of the and Texas as states that cerned” by Barsa’s letter to and founded the South Asia wonder about the ethics of it. Oh, I know that mor- United States Agency for declared abortion not an Guterres asking that refer- Reproductive Justice and alists say there is nothing wrong with putting your International Development essential service. “We regret ences to “sexual and repro- Accountability Initiative). best foot forward. But the officials I wrote for were (USAID), sent an open let- that the above-mentioned ductive health and its deriv- The statement was also putting my best foot forward as if it were theirs. This ter to UN Secretary-General states, with a long history of atives” be removed from endorsed by Dainius Pūras, is troubling. I agreed to give them some of my prose, António Guterres, urging restrictive practices against the Global Humanitarian Special Rapporteur on the not one of my feet. him to ensure the UN will abortion, appear to be Response Plan on COVID- right to physical and men- Writing isn’t the only craft that relies on ghosts. “stay focused on life-saving manipulating the crisis to 19. It stated: “We reiterate tal health, and Dubravka Singing, dancing, instrumental performing, and act- interventions” and remove severely restrict women’s that sexual and reproduc- Šimonovic, Special ing do as well. In Hollywood musicals of the 1930s references to “sexual and reproductive rights,” said tive health services, includ- Rapporteur on violence and ‘40s, characters were expected to break into reproductive health and its Elizabeth Broderick, vice- ing access to safe and legal against women, its causes song without notice. If they weren’t able to, they lip derivatives” from the Global chair of the Working Group. abortion, are essential and and consequences. synched to ghosts. This could be disconcerting when Humanitarian Response “This situation is also the must remain a key com- Trump withdrew the different ghosts sang for the same actors in subse- Plan on COVID-19. latest example illustrating a ponent of the UN’s pri- United States from the quent movies. You didn’t know whether to admire Guterres’ spokesman pattern of restrictions and orities in its responses to Human Rights Council in the actors’ versatility or scorn their inconsistency. Stéphane Dujarric respond- retrogressions in access to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2018, saying it had become I was really disappointed to learn that one of my ed to Barsa’s letter saying, legal abortion care across Removing references to sex- too politicized. favourite tap dancers didn’t sing any of her songs “any suggestion that we are the country. We fear that, ual and reproductive health Meanwhile, 434 human and another sang only some. Now, when I watch using the COVID-19 pan- without clear political will from the HRP will have dev- rights groups from Central DVDs of their movies, the knowledge that I’m listen- demic as an opportunity to reverse such restric- astating consequences for and South America pub- ing to ghosts detracts from the magic. I can’t get to promote abortion is not tive and regressive trends, women worldwide. It will lished the “International used to the idea that my favourites are deliberately correct.” Dujarric added states will continue pursu- seriously undermine the Manifesto for the Right to deceiving me. that while supporting life- ing this pattern.” international community’s Life” in response to the UN At least their dancing is authentic. Or so I thought saving health care, “we do Those eight states insist- joint effort to respond to Humanitarian Response until I discovered that an uncredited body double not seek to override any ed that medical resourc- women’s health needs in Plan COVID-19. The mani- danced for the star in a more recent Hollywood national laws.” es be reserved for health this time of crisis.” festo was delivered to movie. So now when I sample my DVDs I can’t help And then last month, care workers battling the The Working Group’s foreign ministry offices wondering whether that’s really Eleanor Powell, Vera the Working Group on pandemic. Some abortion statement reflected the in Argentina, Costa Rica, Ellen, George Murphy, or Gene Kelly. Or is it only a Ecuador, and Peru amid series of uncredited ghosts? concerns that the UN was Characters in the old musicals weren’t just expect- pushing abortions in coun- ed to sing without warning. Many were also expect- tries where life is protected ed to accompany themselves or others on the piano, Buying or Selling Real Estate? from conception. and a few did. The rest faked it while ghost pianists, The document calls on unseen and unacknowledged, made them sound and the international organiza- look good. tion to “focus on public Not all ghosts are unheralded. Paramount Pictures policies based on human credited a couple of jazz musicians who ghosted for dignity” and cease “any Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith in a movie about attempt to interfere with rival trumpet players vying for the same woman. or attack the sovereignty of I don’t know why the studio revealed the fraud. our countries, in particu- Maybe Fred and Burgess were afraid that if it didn’t lar coming from the U.N. they’d have to join the musicians’ union. and its principal agencies.” A fellow musician and I used to take turns ghost- Joins with It notes that the UN has ing for a friend who enjoyed pretending that he pressured Ecuador to pro- could play the trumpet after just three lessons. But vide “safe, legal abortion” we only did it at parties and never for pay. as a condition for COVID- A consummate mimic, the would-be musician 19 funding. To receive a weaved and swiveled convincingly, fooling most of humanitarian aid package, the partygoers. He continued to fool them when he the Ecuador government, held the trumpet with one hand and waved with the which has a constitutional other. He even fooled a few when he put the horn to provision saying life begins the side of his head and signaled that he was play- at conception, had to agree ing by ear. He fooled only a couple, though, when he to earmark $3 million for pretended to play through his naval. abortion-training for medi- The first Hollywood ghosts, I suspect, were cal professionals. stunt men, now known as stunt persons (to include Among the international women) or stunt performers (to include other spe- We find you a local experienced Agent in your neighborhood. With their help you agencies specifically named cies) or stunt doubles (to include – I’m not sure what successfully complete your residential or commercial Realty transactions. in the manifesto were the they include. Maybe conjoined twins). Anyhow, stunt United Nations Population men, women, performers or doubles replace actors A sizable donation is given to support CLC at absolutely no cost to you! Fund, UN Women, the in scenes too dangerous or difficult for them to play. World Health Organization, The depth of the duplicity is stunning. Why, a Will your property be sold as part of your estate? Please consider indicating in your the World Bank, and the series of aptly chosen ghosts can make a tone deaf last will and testament your preference for selling the property using the Real Estate International Monetary wimp with two left feet seem like a melodious dare- Fund. devil with wings on his shoes. for Life The manifesto also But human ghosts can’t match their digital coun- Get Started Today! rejected the “Joint terparts in deception. Digital ghosts regularly cor- Statement on Protecting rect the pitch in vocal and instrumental performanc- Provide us with some basic information, and we’ll put you in touch with a top quality, Sexual and Reproductive es and even remove wrong notes. So if you want Health and Rights and a career as a singer, but can’t carry a tune, don’t pro-life Agent. Promoting Gender- worry. Your digital ghost can carry it for you. responsiveness in the If you want a career as a cover girl, but don’t have Your name is never sold, ever! COVID-19 Crisis” signed by the desired look, take heart. Your other digital ghost Call 1-877-543-3871 representatives of 59 coun- can make your skin clearer, your teeth straighter, tries including Argentina, your lips poutier and your body slimmer. www.RealEstateForLife.org Costa Rica, Ecuador, and The Gospel tells us that Satan is the father of lies. e-mail Dave Theisen: [email protected] Peru. I sometimes wonder whether he has anything to do Real Estate for Life, an arm of Residential Property Consultants, was formed for the explicit purpose of giving See, ‘Ecuador’ p.9 with ghosting. He’s a spirit, you know. donations to support Pro-life activities. PAGE 8 — THE INTERIM, JULY/AUGUST 2020 Lena Dunham NN Born: May 13, 1986, OD HALL O New York City WO F S Y HA NN Marital status: Single LL M O E NN Children: None H NN Career highlights: Celebrities Girls (2012–2017) NN Abortion activism: Sold 169 inner and outer garments from her closet over RealReal and donated all of her 70 per say the cent commission to Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

“Now I can say that I still haven’t funniest things had an abortion, but I wish I had.” •Lena Dunham on a December 2016 episode of her “Women Of The Hour” podcast

Actress

Alyssa Milano Jamie Lee Curtis HAL NN Born: December 19, 1972, NN Born: November 22, 1958, OD L OF New York City HALL Santa Monica, California WO S OOD OF Y HA NN Marital status: Twice W SH NN Marital status: Married LL M LY A O E NN Children: Two L M NN Children: Two (adopted) H O E NN Career highlights: Who’s the Boss H NN Career highlights: Halloween (1978), (1984-1992), Charmed (1998-2006), True Lies (1994) and Freaky Friday Hall Pass (2011) (2003) NN Awards: “Favourite TV Actress,” Kids NN Awards: Two Golden Globe awards Choice Awards, “Spirit of Compassion NN Abortion activism: Took part in an online Award,” UNICEF (2015), “Ariadne telethon-style fundraiser for Planned Getty Ally Award,” GLAAD Gala Forum Parenthood, along with celebrities such (2018) as Jane Fonda and Tim Robbins. “Proud to be the spokesperson of @ “I knew at that time, I was not PPFA and to introduce you to their equipped to be a mother, and so I new program of Telehealth. Important. chose to have an abortion. I chose. It Vital. Private.” was my choice. And it was absolutely •April 17, 2020 tweet introducing Planned Parenthood’s the right choice for me. •August 20,” 2019 podcast over-the-phone abortion service

Actress and activist Actress

RuPaul Sarah Silverman HALL NN Born: November 17, 1960, HALL NN Born: December 1, 1970, OOD OF San Diego, California OOD OF Bedford, N.H. W SH NN Marital status: W SH LY A LY A NN Marital status: Said she would L M ‘married’ to same-sex partner L M never get married O E NN Children: None O E H H N NN Career highlights: RuPaul’s Drag Race N Children: none (2012-present) NN Career highlights: The Sarah Silverman NN Awards: GLAAD’s Vito Russo Award for Program (2007-2010) promoting LGBTQ+ equality (1999), six Prime NN Awards: Two Primetime Emmy Awards Time Emmys, and Time’s list of 100 most influential people (2017). NN Abortion activism: Long-time vocal NN Abortion activism: Raised money for Planned support of abortion, including Parenthood when he appeared on the May 11, contributing to “7 Inches for Planned 2020 episode of the Price is Right. Parenthood,” an album to raise funds and awareness for PP. “We live in a masculine-dominated culture. How dare some man tell a TONIGHT AT 7 wherever you are, Join woman what to do with her body. That “in dedicating your salute to essential is outrageous! Outrageous. As a human, workers to abortion providers, that is a big issue for me that really ” strikes a chord. •May 31, 2020 Instagram post •2017 interview” with Marie Claire encouraging her followers to magazine #clapforabortionproviders

Drag queen tV personality Actress and comedian

Padma Lakshmi Ashley Judd NN Born: April 19, 1968, D HALL O NN Born: September 1, 1970, D HALL O OO F OO F Los Angeles, California W S Madras, India W S Y HA Y HA LL M LL M NN Marital status: Divorced O E NN Marital status: Divorced O E H H NN Children: None NN Children: One NN Career highlights: A Time to Kill (1996), NN Career highlights: Easy Exotic: A Model’s Double Jeopardy (1999) Low Fat Recipes From Around the World (1999), Top Chef (2006-present) NN Abortion activism: Works with the pro-abortion Population Services NN Affiliations: An ACLU Artist Ambassador International and United Nations for women’s reproductive health and Population Fund immigration rights.

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3760 Sheppard Ave E, Toronto - (416) 609-5700 - www.shepherdvillage.org PAGE 10 — THE INTERIM, JULY/AUGUST 2020 When police stop Friends of Life for Life seeing persons “Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from Him.” Psalm 127:3 Talk Turkey Josie Luetke “Voici, des fils sont un héritage de l`Éternel, le fruit des entrailles est une récompense.” Psaumes 127:3 n early 2016, an Arizona police officer yelled highly The Interim wishes to thank the following for sponsoring this edition of the newspaper. Iconfusing commands at a sobbing and terrified Daniel Shaver (who, as it turns out, was unarmed), Diocese of Grand Falls Newfoundland Incarnation of Our Blessed Lord Parish warning him that if he made a mistake, he might Hamilton, Ontario die, and die he did. For the sake of this column, I Sacred Heart Parish Bishop’s Falls, Newfoundland Saint Anns Parish rewatched the video of this incident, witnessing his Ancaster, Ontario body crumple as it was peppered with bullets. Believe Saint.Anne’s Parish me, I didn’t want to. Conception Harbour, Newfoundland Saint Francis Xavier Parish Stoney Creek, Ontario Just this year, officers in Lethbridge, Alberta, weap- Saint John the Baptist Parish ons drawn, took down (but thankfully didn’t kill) a Bishop’s Falls, Newfoundland Saint Mark’s Parish poor 19-year-old girl because she was carrying a plas- Kitchener, Ontario tic gun as part of a Stormtrooper costume she was in Diocese of Pembroke, Ont. & Que. St. Theresa of Avila Parish to advertise the Stars Wars Day promotion at her work- Saint Martin of Tours Parish Elmira, Ontario place. Whitney, Ontario Diocese of London, Ontario Like all of you, I also watched the asphyxiation of Saint Matthew the Apostle Parish George Floyd. Madawaska, Ontario Holy Trinity Catholic Church I don’t want to talk about his past or the loot- Saint Ignatius MartyrParish Woodstock, Ontario ing and rioting, which many of you are all too eager Maynooth, Ontario Diocese of St. Catharines, Ontario to distract yourselves with. I want to talk about law Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario enforcement – those who are supposed to serve and Star of the Sea Parish protect – abusing their power, because aggression St. Mark the Evangelist/Sacred Heart of Jesus St. Catharines, Ontario from state actors is far more perturbing than any civil- Prescott, Ontario Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia ian crimes. Archdiocese of Toronto, Ontario These stories are not one-offs. There are so many Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church West Vancouver, British Columbia more I want to share that I just don’t have the space Blessed Sacrament Parish for, countless examples of police on pandemic- Toronto, Ontario Holy Spirit Church fed power trips slapping down punishing fines the Holy Rosary Parish New Westminster, British Columbia moment a plebeian dares question them. The response Toronto, Ontario Star of the Sea Parish of the police to the George Floyd protests has been Sacred Heart Parish South Surrey/White rock, British Columbia distressing. No one has been spared. Reporters have King City, Ontario Diocese of Victoria, British Columbia been arrested and shot at; a 75-year-old was shoved Diocese of Hamilton, Ontario and fell, leaving him with a brain injury. Suffice it to Saint Andrew’s Cathedral Victoria, British Columbia say, there’s an extremely fat record of police overreach Holy Rosary Parish and brutality that signals a systemic problem, one Guelph, Ontario that’s worsened by racism. If you don’t buy that, do your own research. Granted, this isn’t a “life issue” as we typically con- Liberals have pattern of discriminating ceive of it, but it’s obviously still life or death; you could ask Shaver and Floyd if they were still alive. It is apropos to quote Martin Luther King Jr.: against pro-life groups “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The belief in the value and dignity of every human Continued from p. 2 its, and registered chari- government authority,” he demonstrated a pattern ties that generate a por- said. of disregarding whether being underlies the pro-life position, so whenever that May 28 that the Liberals tion of their income from That terms like “dis- or not something is ‘con- dignity is assaulted, so too is the philosophy that the had heeded the request the sale of goods and ser- crimination” and “hatred” trary to applicable laws’ in pro-life movement is built on. and added the critical vices, and appears to be are abused by government targeting religious beliefs Let’s also not forget that preborn children and their phrase. A CEBA applicant the only Liberal COVID-19 staffers who interpret these that they dislike or do not pregnant mothers can be victims of police brutality. is now asked to confirm economic relief measure terms subjectively has been understand,” Moore said. On May 25, the same day Floyd was killed, Emerald that it “does not promote with a “non-discrimination demonstrated by federal “One hopes that the fed- Black filed a lawsuit alleging cops stomped on her violence, incite hatred or clause.” decisions “denying reli- eral government will not belly last year and caused her to miscarry. A pregnant discriminate on the basis “We are pleased to see gious organizations eligi- have the same disregard protester in Austin, Texas, was reportedly recently shot of sex, gender, sexual ori- the federal government bility to apply for Canada for this important clarifica- with non-lethal rounds, including in the abdomen. entation, race, ethnicity, include acknowledge- Summer Jobs grants,” he tion in the CEBA require- There’s an outstanding question as well about whether religion, culture, religion, ment of the rule of law said. ments.” tear gas can be abortifacient. (Pro-choicers have been education, age or mental in its CEBA requirements,” The JCCF is currently Groups or organizations asking, “Where’s the pro-life outrage?” Well, here it is.) or physical disability con- Moore told LifeSiteNews in suing the Liberals on behalf that believe they are being We pro-lifers have learned to be suspicious of our trary to applicable laws.” an email. of BCM International, a discriminated against by the various legislatures and courts, knowing well how The reader also noted “Requiring that gov- Christian organization that government on the basis biased they are and their history of unjust policies or that the Royal Bank of ernment decision-makers runs the Mill Stream Bible of their religious beliefs or decisions. Unfortunately, many of us don’t seem to Canada had not yet updat- apply an objective standard Camp & Retreat Centre in practices can contact JCCF, have the same suspicion for “law enforcement,” even ed its website to reflect the of what is ‘contrary to appli- Peterborough, which was added Moore. though they enforce the unjust part of it too. Who change. LifeSiteNews con- cable laws’ should provide denied CSJ funding for the arrested Linda Gibbons, Mary Wagner, and Fr. Tony tacted RBC for comment legal protection to faith- summer of 2019. This article original- Van Hee after all? but did not hear back. based groups against being With the summer jobs ly appeared May 29 at Police officers can no more excuse their actions by The CEBA is available targeted by the subjective program, “federal govern- Lifesitenews and is reprint- claiming that they’re just following orders than can a for businesses, non-prof- doctor who’s told to commit an abortion. Neither can dislike of those exercising ment decision-makers have ed with permission. they excuse their actions with fear. They ought to be prepared to lay down their lives before using force inappropriately and if they’re not, they have no busi- ness wearing the uniform. We are the ones who put the guns in the hands of cops and so it’s all the more necessary that not a sin- gle misstep of theirs be tolerated. As comedian Chris Rock pointed out, “Some jobs can’t have bad apples. Some jobs, everybody gotta be good. Like, pilots. 405 Sheldon Drive 37 Ellenhall Square American Airlines can’t be like, ‘You know, most of our pilots like to land, we just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains’.” Cambridge ON N1T 2B7 Scarborough, Ont. M1W 3B1 And if the bad apples aren’t being rootled for and immediately thrown out? The whole force is rotten. The bad apples prove that the badge doesn’t make one (416) 499-4611 deserving of power and deference. 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The road to libera- we’re about” section of Following the death of about 40 per cent of all released a response, which Black Women. Black Lives tion is long and will take all its website, there is no George Floyd – he died abortions. Research by included support for abor- Matter.” of us. The time to invest in mention of police brutal- after being arrested for Protecting Black Life found tion: “We deserve and thus Alicia Garza, a the future of racial justice ity or prison conditions, allegedly using a counter- that 79 percent of Planned we demand reproductive co-founder of BLM, said is long overdue.” Another but there are four separate feit $20 bill and the arrest- Parenthood surgical abor- justice that gives us auton- in an interview with RH affiliate posted the mes- references to homosexual ing officer, Derek Chauvin tion facilities are located omy over our bodies and Reality, a pro-abortion sage: “We’re devastated, or transgender issues. It knelt on his neck and back within walking distance of our identities while ensur- website: “reproductive grieving, and outraged states: “We are guided by for nearly nine minutes – minority neighborhoods ing that our children and justice is very much by violence against black the fact that all Black lives there were protests, first and that an estimated 20 families are supported, situated within the Black lives. We must continue matter, regardless of actual in Minneapolis and later million black preborn safe, and able to thrive. Lives Matter movement. to demand accountability, or perceived sexual iden- across the United States babies have been killed We deserve and thus we And the way we talk about justice, and an end to the tity, gender identity, gender and around the globe, by abortion since Roe v. demand participatory that is that, essentially, it’s inequity that continues to expression, economic sta- organized by Black Lives Wade in 1973. New York democracy that encom- not just about the right define every moment of tus, ability, disability, reli- Matter and other civil City health statistics show passes political, economic, for women to be able to life for Black America from gious beliefs or disbeliefs, rights groups. Black Lives that more black babies are cultural, spiritual, and sex- determine when and how the racist institutions that immigration status, or loca- Matter, polls showed in killed by abortion than are ual self-determination.” In and where they want to uphold white supremacy.” tion.” And in the next para- mid-June, was more popu- born each year. 2016, it announced it would start families, but it is also In its statement, NARAL graph, it commits to “make lar than President Donald Reflecting on such “partner” with “reproduc- very much about our right Pro-Choice America said space for transgender Trump in the United States numbers and the fact that tive justice groups to fight to be able to raise families, the death of Floyd was “a brothers and sisters to par- and demands to “defund Margaret Sanger support- for black women.” In 2014, to be able to raise children snapshot of the violence ticipate and lead” stating the police” are being seri- ed eugenics policies, Wall BLM partnered with black to become adults…. And and racism Black people that “We are self-reflexive ously discussed in various Street Journal columnist “reproductive justice” that is being hindered by in America face every day and do the work required municipalities including William McGurn wrote that organizations such as Trust state violence in many due to entrenched white to dismantle cisgender Minneapolis, Los Angeles, “This doesn’t mean that Black Women and New different forms. One form supremacy. Further, we privilege and uplift Black New York, and Washington Planned Parenthood pro- Voices for Reproductive being violence by law understand that we are trans folk, especially Black D.C. But what do people motes abortion so America Justice. enforcement or other state part of a system of struc- trans women who continue really know about Black forces, and the other form tural racism unless we are to be disproportionately Lives Matter (BLM) and its of crisis through poverty every single day working to impacted by trans-antago- agenda? and lack of access to unlearn it and fight against nistic violence.” Later, the Ryan Bomberger is resources and lack of access it. Silence is not an option.” statement affirms, “We fos- the founder of Radiance to health communities that It continued, “We witness ter a queer‐affirming net- Foundation, “a life-affirm- are safe and sustainable. and actively work against work. When we gather, we ing organization that cre- So we certainly understand reproductive oppression,” do so with the intention of atively illuminates that life that BLM and reproductive with nary a word about the freeing ourselves from the has purpose.” The orga- justice go hand in hand.” disproportionate number tight grip of heteronorma- nization has four key val- Without a hint of irony, of black babies killed by tive thinking, or rather, the ues: “Every human life has in that same interview, abortion. belief that all in the world purpose;” “We are called La’Tasha D. Mayes, are heterosexual (unless s/ to love one another and founder and executive he or they disclose other- show compassion to those director of New Voices for ‘Reproductive justice’ wise).” in need.” “The most fun- Reproductive Justice, said As Bomberger says, damental right is the Right “freedom from violence is essential to BLM BLM “heavily promote(s) to Life;” and, “Family is the reproductive justice.” homosexuality and foundation of every soci- Before co-founding BLM transgenderism.” ety.” in 2014, Garza worked The National Abortion Bomberger told Van On June 5, he posted on with pro-abortion groups Federation released a state- Maren that Christians can the Radiance Foundation for a decade before becom- ment that began: “These have nothing to do with website, “Top 10 reasons ing “disillusioned” with senseless killings shine a BLM. “The Bible is unam- I’ll never support the Sanger and the move- light on the systemic rac- biguous about sexuality. #BlackLivesMatter move- ment’s eugenic and racist ism and white supremacy Loving every human being ment.” He was later inter- history, so she re-labeled that pervade so much of is not the same as loving viewed on Jonathan Van her work reproductive jus- our society. We know that every human doing.” Maren’s LifesiteNews pod- Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation published tice instead of reproductive these systems of hate and He also said that BLM cast about it, where he a widely distributed list of the “Top 10 reasons I’ll rights and began promot- oppression affect the lives ignores fatherhood. BLM’s extrapolated upon the ten never support the #BlackLivesMatter movement.” ing abortion as a means of and safety of Black people “what we’re about” states, points. He said “the prem- bodily autonomy for black every day and that we must “We make our spaces fam- ise is not true; there is will have fewer black citi- Accepting as the “inter- women. Furthermore, speak out and condemn ily-friendly and enable par- no goal of forgiveness or zens. But it’s undeniable sectionality” model of the director of commu- these murders and the sys- ents to fully participate with reconciliation, and, it’s all that this is the outcome social phenomenon – what nications for BLM Global tems that allow them to their children. We disman- about Black Power.” But of what they are doing.” Wikipedia explains is “the Network , Shanelle happen, as silence and tle the patriarchal practice Bomberger also raises Asking for Sanger’s bust interconnected nature of Matthews, worked as a complacency only serve to that requires mothers to issues related to life and to be removed from the social categorizations such strategist for the American condone these injustices.” work ‘double shifts’ so that family, where BLM is on National Portrait Gallery’s as race, class, and gender as Civil Liberties Union of It went on to commit to they can mother in private the wrong side. He noted ‘struggle for justice’ exhib- they apply to a given indi- Northern California on helping “Black and Brown” even as they participate in that BLM promotes the it, Senator Ted Cruz (R, vidual or group, regarded reproductive freedom and abortion providers and public justice work.” And LGBTQ+ agenda, ignores Texas), said that “her racist as creating overlapping LGBTQ rights, co-founded abortion clients get the in the next line, it says: fatherhood , undermines views have had a very real and interdependent sys- the Reproductive Justice resources they need to pro- “We disrupt the Western- the family, and supports and devastating impact on tems of discrimination or Advocates, and serves on vide abortion to the black prescribed nuclear family abortion. He said “appar- the widespread destruction disadvantage” – the groups the board of directors for community. structure requirement by ently, not all black lives of unborn human life.” said that it was not possible the National Network of When the first BLM pro- supporting each other as matter,” in regard to BLM’s Despite the numbers to understand the oppres- Abortion Funds. tests took place six years extended families and “vil- support of a full range of that show black Americans sion that all blacks face When the BLM pro- ago, Milwaukee Sheriff lages” that collectively care reproductive rights, includ- are disproportionately vic- without understand the tests and riots started after David Clarke tweeted that for one another, especially ing abortion. tims of abortion, BLM sup- lack of bodily autonomy George Floyd’s death, “If only these faux protest- our children, to the degree According to U.S. cen- ports abortion rights and black women have when NARAL Pro-Choice America, ers were asked by media that mothers, parents, and sus data, blacks make abortion rights groups, and it comes to deciding how the National Abortion about all the black on black children are comfortable.” up 13 per cent of the they, in turn, reciprocate many children they might Federation, and numerous killing or black babies Bomberger told Van American population, but the support. have. state and local affiliates of aborted in US every year.” Maren that ignoring father- according to the Centers Following President In a statement by the Planned Parenthood made When interviewed about hood is a fatal mistake Trust Black Women statements in support of the tweet on CNN, Clark for the black community. Partnership, the group BLM. Planned Parenthood said: “Look, the abortions? “Fatherless communities said: “Our lives are at stake. of Greater New York post- If Black lives – if they really are far more vulnerable To realize a future where ed a statement in favour mattered, that’s where the to any predator, whether Black Lives Matter, we of dozens of black and outrage would be; that’s it’s the abortion industry must Trust Black Women. gay rights groups, noting, where we’d see protests.” or drugs,” he said. “But I To Trust Black Women is “Planned Parenthood of During the latest round don’t hear that being talked to affirm that Black Lives Greater New York stands of protests, that message about.” do Matter. So we say, in with all those fighting is getting out again. On Bomberger said BLM June 5, Maria Church was is about black power and taking part in a Walk About despite the importance Jesus street evangelism of church to many at the Alabama Women’s black Americans, it is Center for Reproductive completely devoid of any Alternatives in Huntsville, religious foundation or holding a sign that said: acknowledgement of God. “Many George Floyds will He said that churches need die here today.” She was to lead the movement for assaulted by a passer-by racial reconciliation because who said the comparison the secular movements was ignorant. have “no forgiveness. No BLM is also radically reconciliation at its heart is supportive of the LGBTQ+ leading it.” PAGE 12 — THE INTERIM, JULY/AUGUST 2020 Revolution MacKay attacks Sloan Continued from p. 3 can’t get counselling and Lewis, Sloan oppose ethical standard possible” Derek Sloan criticized C-8, if a parent, as a parent, unethical vaccines and “a nation like ours the government’s ban on you take your kid to get with the creativeness and Laying Down so-called conversion thera- counseling for this, you can Leslyn Lewis and ingenuity of our doctors py, which would criminalize go to jail for five years.’ Derek Sloan say they should never need to the Lawton medical or spiritual coun- That’s insane, that’s ridic- object to coronavirus breach ethics in order to seling to fight unwanted ulous.” He called invasive vaccines made from make every effort to save same-sex attractions and surgeries and hormone fetal cells obtained from lives.” Sloan said using Andrew Lawton gender confusion. Sloan therapy as a form of “child aborted babies decades cell lines derived from had also railed against C-8 abuse.” Sloan has said that ago. In May, Canada’s aborted babies is “reckless in an email in March. If if elected prime minister he National Research Council and irresponsible.” Sloan passed, C-8 would also would do what the United announced it would said, “Canadians should ustralian wildfires. A global pandemic. Murder prohibit parents from seek- Kingdom has proposed work with the Chinese not have to choose Ahornets (if you don’t know, don’t ask). ing to help their son or and ban both sex-change research firm CanSinoBio between their health Could a revolution be next among 2020’s offerings? daughter from pursuing operations and hormone to develop a coronavirus and their conscience.” I don’t, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t changing. homosexual or transgender therapy for minors under vaccine. The vaccine, Ad5- LifeSiteNews also asked After a police officer was filmed with his knee on identities. Sloan said that 18. Peter MacKay, the pre- nCoV, co-developed with Erin O’Toole and Peter George Floyd’s neck during an arrest in Minneapolis while doctors and families sumptive frontrunner, said the Chinese Academy of MacKay about vaccines, –.an arrest that proved fatal for Floyd –.a racial reck- can put children on puber- that Sloan’s remarks were Military Medical Sciences, but neither responded. oning began. What started as a movement to con- ty blockers and amputate “reprehensible,” as both employs aborted fetal Sloan has also come demn police brutality became about broader racial healthy sex organs, “The MacKay and Erin O’Toole cells in its research. out against a mandatory issues, then went the way so many protest movements Liberals have said ‘no, you have endorsed Bill C-8. LifeSiteNews asked Lewis COVID-19 vaccination in do by becoming about any and every grievance imag- and Sloan if they approve order to return to school inable. of vaccines derived from or work. Lewis tweeted As such, within just a week, not only did black Max Underhill’s aborted babies and both that decisions about lives matter, but also capitalism was wrong and trans gave pro-life answers. vaccinations should be women are women. Lewis said, “Canada should made by individuals and This – combined with violent rioters and loot- Farm Supply Ltd. hold itself to the highest their family physician. ers whose conduct claimed lives, including black lives –.took what was an important discussion and 56532 Calton Line rendered it a revolution against everything, yet also R.R. #1 nothing. illiam eneault When Floyd was killed it seemed for a moment that Vienna, Ontario W F. D everyone could be united in mourning a needless 519-866-3632 7887 Springfield Rd. 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Supplement, Oxford professor Anil Gomes recalls the Which is, of course, exactly what happened. last day before lockdown when he went to his daugh- The needless killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis ter’s school to teach philosophy. While the remaining police united everyone I knew, right or left, in sorrow teachers frantically prepared distance learning pro- and anger. But that only lasted a moment, and since Amusements grams, Gomes sat down on the floor with the remain- no crisis can be wasted, protesters took to the streets, ing students and played a series of mental games, followed close behind by looters and suspiciously well- Rick McGinnis asking them to imagine the first impressions of aliens prepared rioters whose primary role seemed to be to visiting our world – if they put a chair on their head, destroy that brief moment of unity. would that make it a hat? Crowds that were condemned as careless and even “A year three told me that she could sit on her sister aggressive threats to public health just a week or two but that doesn’t make her a chair,” Gomes remembered. previously were being excused and applauded. And ith the end of the coronavirus lockdown in sight “They fizzed with ideas and laughter. The next day we any baffled questions about the wisdom and severity of Was I write this, we’ll finally get to see how the all withdrew into our homes.” the previous three months of lockdown in the light of greatest social experiment of the 21st century will final- Using Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First official support for the protests were quickly drowned ly play out. By the time you read this you may be able Philosophy as a guide, Gomes allows us to imagine out – a perfect way to ensure that future conspiracy to visit your elderly relatives or sit in a restaurant or that the lockdown should be a period of massive inspi- theories will thrive. watch a movie in a movie theatre. Perhaps one, or even ration. The French philosopher “begins with a with- A virus that kills without regard to race or gender two, of these – but almost definitely not all three. drawal,” Gomes writes. “The meditator isolates himself (but concentrates its intent on the aged and infirm) was And so our lives are returned to us, piecemeal. in a warm room, free of all distractions, so that he can suddenly superseded as #1 threat by lethal institutional I will not look back on this chapter of history with properly examine his beliefs and identify those that racism. The question changed from “Why aren’t you fondness. But I can already tell that I might miss the will form the firm foundation of his philosophy. There wearing your mask?” to “Are you wearing that mask to way that a mute button seemed to have been pressed he stays for six days...” hide your face from security cameras, block tear gas, in the city around me. With automobile traffic wildly Lockdown, of course, lasted very much longer than or prevent infecting your fellow protester?” As with any reduced, commercial air traffic nearly nonexistent and six days, but Gomes realizes early on that this isn’t just moment of precarious social calamity, we found our- everyone either jobless or working and studying from a meditative but a domestic withdrawal, where many of selves asking questions we’d never have imagined ask- home, my hometown felt almost pastoral, and the parks us were isolated with roommates, spouses or partners, ing before. began filling up with the first warm days. children and even parents: “Withdrawal from the world And like so many otherwise inexplicable moments When a downtown Toronto park was inundated with is not much of a withdrawal when some of the world we’re living through, it all starts to make sense if we young people on one of the first balmy weekend, there comes with you.” appreciate it as a religious moment in a presumably was a wave of indignant condemnation that was notably Reflecting on the rare circumstances that allowed secular society. missing a couple of weeks later when a wave of street Descartes to self-isolate in search of inspiration – a The National Review ran a story about Smooth protests saw similar if not larger crowds. But we’ll get world without modern communications technology, Sanchez, a YouTuber who posted a livestream where he to that in a moment. and where a man of means like Descartes could rely wandered New York City during the height of the Floyd Perhaps a few of us began sheltering in place with on servants to keep him fed, laundered and watered protests. Trolling the crowds, he approached white lockdown goals – a list of projects ranging in ambition – Gomes acknowledges that Descartes’ creative self- women and (falsely) identified himself as a member from reading more books to a basement-to-eaves house exile (not very different from Henry David Thoreau’s in of Black Lives Matter, asking them to kneel, apologize cleanup, to finally embarking on a long-postponed cre- Walden) was very much a luxury. for their privilege, and admit their complicity in crimes ative project. Descartes’ exercises were, Gomes writes “designed against minorities. He insisted on referring to Floyd as I can look back on the lockdown with a mixture of to take our natural aptitude for thought, to channel it “George Foreman.” Almost no one corrected him. accomplishments. I didn’t finish a single book, but that and to inculcate habits of attention. This is difficult. It Sanchez wanted to expose the gullibility of the peo- might been the fault of starting with an 800-plus page is time-consuming. It is also deeply, deeply boring. And ple he approached, but by this point there was plenty history of the naval arms race that preceded World War this was surely its point, for it is only by going slowly of footage online of white people voluntarily kneeling I. I did, however, watch hundreds of hours of YouTube that the mind can be led away from itself to God and to apologize for their privilege and culpability in sys- videos on saw mills, bushcraft, cooking in the wild, and the truth.” temic racism, some even organized by church pastors. watch and guitar repair. In a world of enforced idle- I haven’t been bored since I was a child, and One such event featured a pastor and his flock wash- ness, it was comforting to at least watch someone else even then I think I understood – as Gomes did, and ing the feet of black activists, a ritual that echoes the do practical things. Descartes – that boredom is a luxury. When my own priest re-enacting Jesus’ actions before his crucifixion My business as a professional photographer dropped children first complained to me that they were bored, – an annual ritual that’s part of Catholic Holy Thursday off to nothing, so I set myself to a series of self-assign- my instinctive response was to say “I don’t care.” I’m Mass. ments, shooting landscapes and street photography hoping that I was able to teach them to enjoy boredom, “It feels as though many of those whom Sanchez and dozens of still-life in our kitchen, of flowers and as there will be enough in their life to come that will films have transcended the material plane and reached groceries and spring buds and trash collected from the demand their attention, either with creativity, novelty a level of mystical elevation in their political fervor,” alleyway behind our house. I also photographed a wed- and experience or (mostly) with duty, chores, social writes Dmitri Solzhenitsyn in the National Review. “To ding, as a favour – the first I’ve shot in 25 years, one of obligation and the pursuit of a wage. They certainly them, the woke genuflection of repentance is like unto only five people allowed in the church according to the never complain about being bored any more, which a kneeling prayer, the renunciation of one’s identity city’s social distancing rules. seems like a miracle with teenagers. unto devout asceticism, the obeisance of the supposed In “The Privilege of Boredom,” an essay about isola- Perhaps the lockdown will produce an explosion minister of Black Lives Matter unto humility before tion and inspiration published in the Times Literary of invention, creativity and inspiration. That remains divine authority.” to be seen. The worst outcome, however, would be I’m certain that it’s impossible to breed the religious that millions of people, deprived of distractions and impulse from human beings, and any student of his- occupations, worried about paying for necessities, tory knows that religion –particularly the Protestant, restricted from most human contact and kept in a charismatic, evangelical variety – is hardwired into Justice Centre simmering state of fear and anxiety, would explode out America’s society and culture. Slavery and racism are for Constitutional Freedoms of isolation at the first excuse to voice their outrage and often described as America’s “original sin,” so it’s not frustration. surprising that acts of atonement and penance familiar to any regular churchgoer are being acted out by and prescribed to people who might not have been inside a church since they were teenagers – if ever. Much as churchgoers have been deprived of reli- gious fellowship and community for months, everyone else has had their life as social beings voluntarily sup- pressed. One of the few activities encouraged and cel- ebrated amidst social isolation has been ministering to John Carpay, President the sick and the dead, and the people occupied with this task were celebrated and described like people 253 - 7620 Elbow Dr SW sheltering from medieval plagues would have honoured Calgary, AB T2V 1K2 905-734-6676 clergy. Though I can’t help but wonder if there was a Black Plague equivalent to line dancing in scrubs on www.timberwoodkitchens.com TikTok. Another one of those questions that we never Crush your field thought we’d ask ourselves. stones in place

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One of the women commented Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has announced new Obianuju (Uju) Ekeocha, an African pro-life leader pres- to FOX News: “It’s really truly biased against Christians, funding of $8.9 million for international abortion organi- against pro-life abolitionists.” In a related incident, David zations. As outlined in this column last month, Trudeau’s ently living in the U.K., has appeared many times in The Interim. She is a fierce defender of the unborn and of her Benham, noted entrepreneur (who with his brother had core government “foreign policy” was revealed as a their home improvement series cancelled on TV because threefold, interconnected, abortion platform: feminism traditional African culture. A recent video of Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and her Democratic colleagues kneeling of their non-related pro-life work) and Christian pro-life and the rights of women and girls; the right to safe and activist was cuffed and arrested outside a Charlotte, N.C. accessible abortion; and, promotion of LGBTQ rights. In “in solidarity” with black people during the U.S. riots has resulted in comments and criticism worldwide, not abortion facility. He claims that his group was following addition, Canada’s deputy minister proudly declared that distancing rules, as a video confirms, and his charitable, this platform and funding underline Trudeau’s push for a the least because of the colourful scarves worn by these kneelers? Uju (and others) pointed out the hypocrisy of non-profit Cities 4 Life is allowed to continue its work seat on the U.N. Security Council. (Woops, Canada came during the pandemic according to the rules of North up 20 votes short as Norway and Ireland were elected to these “virtue signallers”: “I had to say something about the American politicians shamelessly and ignorantly using Carolina. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has pledged his fill two seats reserved for western Europe and Canada.) support for Benham. Those are only two of a number In 2019, Trudeau pledged $1.4 billion, every single year the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.” She continued: “Excuse me, Democrats. Don’t treat Africans of pro-life demonstrators being arrested during the until 2030, to international organizations that advocate pandemic, including another North Carolina group that for and carry out so-called sexual health and reproductive like we’re children. The fabrics and these colorful things (i.e., in this instance, the scarves) that we have within has engaged The Thomas More Society in filing a federal rights in developing countries, with half being reserved lawsuit. And yet other demonstrators are allowed flout for abortion. In June, this paper also introduced porn our culture and our tradition, they all mean something to us. I know you look at us and you say, ‘Oh, Africans physical distancing rules in the thousands, with not only baron Phil Harvey to our readers. Harvey is a billionaire impunity but political, corporate, and media cheerlead- who funds abortion through his multiple sleazy endeav- are so cute in all your colorful dresses.’ Well, some of those dresses and patterns and colors actually do mean ing. The double-standard is sickening and will only fur- ours (including mail-order porn). He founded and sits ther erode trust in our institutions. on the board of the abortion conglomerate Marie Stopes something to us.” International. His finger is in the recent funding from the “We’re devastated, grieving and outraged by violence Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass), reportedly Trudeau government. Out of the new funding of $8.9 mil- against Black Lives. We must continue to demand account- on the short-list of vice presidential candidates being lion, Marie Stopes, which is already generously funded by ability, justice and an end to the inequality that continues considered by Joe Biden, tweeted in June that “the mur- Harvey and various governments, will receive $4.9 million to define every moment of life for Black America from the der of black trans women is an epidemic.” Of course, the from Canadian taxpayers. Another $2 million will go to racist.” That tweet was sent out during the riots and loot- death of any person is a tragedy and every human being, Ipas, another global abortion provider but which focuses ing in June. Every respectful person can agree with the before and after birth, has the right to life. But is there on India. And the U.N. will receive $2 million in their fight statement and maybe share the anguish that the tweeting really an epidemic of black trans women murders? One against gender-based violence against women. So, these writers seem to be suffering – except for one small detail. of the self-identified transgender individuals highlighted three international abortion supporters and providers Those who are “devastated, grieving and outraged” are in Warren’s tweet was shot during a robbery gone bad. will have their coffers topped up with Canadians’ money. the very persons who prey on black Americans and abort That does not seem like a gender identity-related crime to Note that all three “endeavours” support the Trudeau their children. These tweeted “anguished cries” are those us; more being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In government’s ‘foreign policy’ platform. And it was all of Planned Parenthood, purveyors of death, despair, other words, a tragedy. Warren is playing identity politics done under the auspices of pandemic funding. injustice, and inequality. No, sisters, you have it back- on steroids pandering to black trans women – not blacks, not women, not trans, but black trans women. It makes Choice42 – Choice for two – is a Canadian pro-life, non- ward. Because of the violence Planned Parenthood inflicts on unborn black children and the money it makes from you wonder if politicians like Warren see the human profit organization that “connects with abortion-minded being behind the various identities they have. women and works with them to help them chose life over the killings, Planned Parenthood has no credibility at all termination, and assists them in finding the resources in respect of human life. Spare us the tears; the hypocrisy Zoom meetings became ubiquitous during the pandemic the women need.” Laura Klassen, founder of Choice42, is numbing. as employers and friends met on the online portal that crowd-sourced nearly $3,000 through GoFundMe to Since 1973, 18 million, six hundred and five thousand, provides live audio and video. Whatever other issues assist three pregnant women in need—in Zimbabwe, in two hundred and thirty-seven (18,605,237) black babies might arise with Zoom, count on an academic (or two) to Canada and in the United States. GoFundMe, not sup- have been aborted in the U.S. (as of 12 noon, June 13, find the most bananas criticism possible. Caroline Brooks portive of the urgency of the women needing the funds, 2020 according to the website numberofabortions.com. and Amy Bonomi of Michigan State University published withheld the money because it says that Zimbabwe is That website gives the “real-time abortion counter based an essay in MSU Today titled “There’s an unconscious not supported by their payment processes, and then cut on the most current statistics,” for a number of cat- bias in virtual meetings. Here’s how you can avoid it.” off contact with Klassen. It was only when she went to egories, including number of black babies eliminated by Brooks and Bonomi wrote: “There’s an issue happening social media, explaining that she had done everything abortion in America. As the site explains, each abortion beneath the surface with platforms like Zoom, Teams, the company had asked her to do that a representative counter is a real-time estimate of the number of abor- and Skype beyond stress and mental health that’s affect- of GoFundMe contacted her. However, the stalemate had tions in the U.S. and worldwide based on the very latest ing its users.” The problem? The “symbolism and nonver- not been resolved at the time The Interim went to press, data, although world statistics are not broken down by bal cues that reinforce normative social identities with and a member of Choice42 put up her own personal country. Most of the abortions reported are surgically respect to gender, race, sexual preference, and socioeco- funds to ensure that the three women who are in dire induced; there has been no attempt to tally the totals nomic status.” A prime example, they noted was having need of help are assisted. Klassen confirmed that her for chemically-induced abortions. Pharmacists for Life pictures of weddings or families in the background, organization will no longer use GoFundMe as their fund- estimate that there have been approximately 250 mil- which Brooks and Bonomi complain, “unintentionally raising platform. lion babies aborted chemically in the U.S. since 1973 reinforces the idea that marriage is most fitting between (Roe v. Wade). The site explains why it includes a “black opposite sexes.” Sometimes a picture is just a picture, not United States baby counter.” It was requested by two African-American systemic oppression. religious-based groups to “highlight the disparity of The all-but-official Democrat nominee for president, Joe the high number of abortions in the black population,” International Biden, released a video about his complete support for which was part of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Many jurisdictions are reporting a decline in abortions the abortion agenda. Employing euphemisms to barely Sanger’s eugenics plan. African-Americans are just under disguise his abortion extremism, Biden said: “It’s a simple during the pandemic. The French Health Minister even 13 per cent of the U.S. population, and yet 36 per cent worried that not enough women were having abor- proposition, health care is a right not dependent on race, of all abortions are obtained by black women. At a ratio gender, income, or zip code. As president I’m going to tions. The Catholic News Agency reports that there has of 474 abortions per 1,000 live births, black women have been a 40 per cent decline in the number of abortions do everything in my power to expand access to qual- the highest ratio of any group in the country. Abortion ity affordable health care for women. We will protect this spring in Mexico as people were confined to their is the leading cause of death among blacks, and yet, it homes. Alison Gonzalez of the pro-life Pasos por la Vida women’s constitutional right to choose, and I am proud is completely ignored by Black Lives Matter and its sup- to stand with you in this fight.” That means taxpayer- (Steps for Life) said that pro-abortion groups are using porters. If black lives really do matter (and they do) why the declining number of abortions as a talking point in funded abortion, for any reason, up to and even after the does BLM support abortion and accept the support of moment of birth. As a career “Catholic” Democrat, Biden arguing for do-it-yourself chemical abortions at home. the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Gonzalez said, “it is incredible that given the times we’re has long opposed taxpayer-funder of abortion, but flip- Parenthood, among others? flopped last summer after abortion activists criticized him living in, there are institutions that only think about abor- for being insufficiently pro-abortion. The Democrats have In the middle of massive protests against the police tion.” Maria Lourdes Varela, director of 40 Days for Life a litmus test on abortion for candidates for high office: killing of George Floyd, two New York police officers in Ibero-America, Mexico, said “if there are more babies, no questioning of the abortion license, no legal limits on ignored the rioting, looting, and lack of social distancing they should be welcomed as they are human beings who the practice of pre-natal or even neo-natal homicide if and focused their attention on two black pro-life women deserve the same rights and opportunities we do.” More procured as a choice of the mother. peacefully praying in front of the Margaret Sanger good news from Mexico: state legislators in Guanajuato Planned Parenthood facility in Manhattan. The women, and San Luis Potosi rejected efforts to legalize abortion. It will come as no surprise that Planned Parenthood standing on the public sidewalk obeying distancing Although 18 of 32 Mexican states passed right-to-life endorsed Joe Biden in the race for U.S. president. What rules, not interfering with pedestrian traffic, were pray- measures in 2016, abortion activists have been agitating was maybe a tad surprising was the wording that Planned ing when they were handcuffed, taken away in a police to remove protection for babies in the womb. Parenthood’s acting president Alexis McGill Johnson In Memoriam Mr. & Mrs. R.M. Abernethy Fr. 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Johnston Joseph & Rose Mahoney Malcolm Muggeridge John Prestwich Charlotte Stone Jerry Young Dombowsky Peter C. Giovannetti Lloyd & Pearl Jones Rev. Andrew C. Maracle Bill Mullins Mary Alice Prestwich John Stone Olga Young John Donoghue Annie Giovannetti Archbishop Anthony Jordan Walter Marshall Agatha W. Mulder- Winifride Prestwich Edwin Stroeder Cecilia Yu Shuk-Han Norbert Donovan Rena Glass Tom Jordan Sr. J. J. Martino Homburg Margaret Preisel Jim Sullivan Joseph Zamida Marie & Dr. David Dooley Frances E. Glasser Rose Josephs Michele Marzilli Bernice Mulhall Veronica Price Dr. L. J. Sullivan Peter Zandstra William D’Oranzio Joseph M. Glasser Dr. D. Dawn Jubb Maureen Masterson James Mullen Ann Pritchard Sullivan & Ferrie Sister Marie Zellie C.S.J. Nina Dotimas Barbara Gobbi Bernard Kane Paul Masterson Nina Mullen Ted Pritchard families Fr. Cecil Zinger C.S.B. Jim Douros Maureen Godsoe Rose & Francis Kastelan Trudy & Ted Masterson Trudi Mullen Maggie Pringle Julia Sulyma Michael Zygocki Michael Doyle Walter H. Godsoe Sr. Deacon C. Kazmierski Astrid Kristine Mattheson Paul & Trudi Muller Marie T. Pringle Louise Summerhill Charles Driscoll Clarence James Goff Walter &Jean Kazun Fr. Carl Matthews S.J. Dr. Ray Mulrooney Brendan Purtill Stephen Summerhill Fr. Joseph Driscoll Rudy Goller Fr. John Keeler Fr. Wilf McAneney Shawn Mulligan G. J. Quinlan Stanley John Surman Mary M. Driscoll Steve Goller Rev. Kieran Keena Fr. Paul James McAvoy Fr. Peter Mullin Eileen Quinn Joseph Sweeney PAGE 16 — THE INTERIM, JULY/AUGUST 2020

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