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JAN 15–28, 2015 3 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook.com/dailyxtra Comment tweet @dailyxtra FEEDBACK Christian lawyers I appreciate Robin Perelle’s point of view [“Heroes and Villains of TWU,” Nous sommes Charlie Xtra #556, Dec 18], but as a Canadian EDITORIAL who has lived in the US, I automati- ROBIN PERELLE cally think of graduates of Christian law schools like that at Liberty Univer- “L’humour c’est de sity in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded s’interdire à rien,” car- by the late Jerry Falwell. Many, or toonist Georges Wolinski once said, most, of their lawyers joined Chris- before he was assassinated with sev- tian legal organizations whose main en of his Charlie Hebdo colleagues at function was to counteract any and an editorial meeting in their Paris all legal gains by the LGBT citizens of I believe that stigma plays a large office Jan 7. America. They are devoted to hatred, part in these people not having dis- Translated it means, “Humour has bigotry and exclusion. And there are covered their bisexuality or homo- no prohibitions.” No subject is too many such groups stateside. sexuality before. I see this as a huge sacred to satirize, to critique. Kudos, big time, to those who fought pool of undiscovered bisexual (or even In the deluge of coverage follow- and are fi ghting Trinity Western Uni- homosexual) men. ing the murders, it can be easy to get CHRIS ROGERS versity’s e orts to establish a similar distracted by the manhunt, the logis- VANCOUVER, BC law school. tics of the shootings, the assassins’ HUGH VINCELETTE identities, what they learned where DAILYXTRA.COM Vision not for all of us and from whom. It can be equally This op-ed is so sickly sweet for Gregor Charlie Hebdo’s “Love Is Stronger than Hate” cover, published after its o ce Even after any covenant is dropped essential to monitor the predictably and company that I almost gagged. You was fi rebombed in 2011, and its 2006 cover depicting Muhammad saying, I wouldn’t support it. There is no place deplorable anti-Muslim backlash and even used their campaign slogan as the “It’s hard being loved by jerks.” for religion in law. government justifications to suspend title [“Moving Forward with Vision,” civil liberties for more anti-terrorism debate, we live in a society steeped being loved by jerks.” STEPHEN FOSTER FACEBOOK Xtra #555, Dec 4]! I, like many other measures. in fear, distracted by manhunts and The magazine took equal aim at queer voters, cast ballots for worthy But at the heart of this story lies vacuous celebrity gossip, and generally everybody: no topic was off-limits, Sex, stats and candidates from every party, specifi - freedom of expression and the beating unwilling to engage in painful discus- they said, and none should be. And cally because I think the city is best it’s taken on multiple fronts since fear sions of how to address long-standing no one was exempt, fear of reprisals ‘straight’ men served by a diversity of voices and seeped into our social consciousness power imbalances and emerging in- be damned. “I don’t see why we can’t In your article “1 in 10? Not Even don’t think any party should “domi- and sapped our courage to discuss all compatibilities to try to fi nd ways to critique all ideologies,” Jean Cabut Close” [Xtra #555, Dec 4], it says that nate” city hall, park board or school topics openly. coexist without squashing each other. (Cabu) said. just 11 percent of people have ex- board. Mainstream media are obsessed “In the face of ambient nervous- They didn’t back down when their of- perienced same-sex attraction. But Painting the NPA as some quasi- with tracking terrorism threats yet ness, our fear is to be too cautious, fi ce was destroyed by Molotov cocktails what about the people who have never fascist, extremist and homophobic shy away from in-depth discussions of too reasonable,” Charlie Hebdo con- for another Muhammad cover in 2011. consciously experienced same-sex at- party that would “roll back” queer what scares us into silence and, most tributor Laurent Sourisseau (known With his now-famous retort, “I prefer traction but who are attracted to the rights, revoke civic status for the importantly, how to openly communi- as Riss), injured in the Jan 7 attack, to die standing than live on my knees,” same sex nevertheless? parade or trample on the West End cate with each other instead, to foster once remarked.