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Archive for August 6th, 2007

Interesting article at the Macleans website by Ken MacQueen - Is polygamy legal in Canada?

If polygamy is illegal, but nobody wants to prosecute it, is it really a crime?

This ties in quite nicely with my recent post stating that I feel it’s only a matter of time before polygamy is in fact legalized.

According to MacQueen, Wally Oppal has still not decided exactly what his next step will be, in spite of a recommendation to seek “a court reference on the question of legality”. He may still lay charges.

But it seems that while the Bountiful group is openly flaunting the law, there are some in Canada - even fundamentalist Christians - who practice it secretly:

Members of Bountiful are part of a breakaway sect of fundamentalist Mormons who do not recognize the mainstream church’s decision more than a century ago to end the practice of polygamy. But the issue extends far beyond the borders of Bountiful. Many Muslims in Canada, as well as some fundamentalist Christians and others with no religious grounding, also quietly practice polygamy.

And speaking of Muslim polygamy, this is a fascinating article about the covert practice of polygamy in the U.S., with links to blogs of several “co-wives”.

Lorrie Goldstein picks up on the arbitrary decision by the U. of T. to shut down the 88 year-old Hart House Rifle and Revolver Clubs - Putting a gun to their heads.

Goldstein calls the move, “political correctness run amok.”

I concur. As I previously posted, there is no valid reason for U. of T. to make this decision other than that they are buying into the Bryant theme that GUNS ARE EVIL.

Criminals on the other hand, are just victims of poverty, and a basketball-court-less neighbourhood. They are not responsible for their actions and have no control when THE EVIL GUN is around to tempt them; even if it’s locked up in someone else’s house, and they have to break in to steal it.

I have no interest in guns myself, but I agree with Lorrie Goldstein that:

…a university guided by administrators who make such arbitrary and unfair decisions cannot be counted on as a bulwark against arbitrary and unfair decisions by governments and tyrannical majorities…

The Libertarians out there should be screaming.

But as usual, we good Canadians do what we are told. We reprogram our minds to reflect what the lefties tell us, because we are spineless lemmings.