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Of course they don't matter to a confessed admitted atheist or someone who mocks Biblical Christianity and such beliefs. It is one thing to be skeptical or question the Bible, but it is entirely another to mock believers. That puts one openly on the side of evil. But if you want to know the consequences of the breakdown of the family structure and the sexual revolution, you don't have to look hard to see them. We have very high divorce rates, abortion on demand with around 100,000 abortions per year in Canada, youth illicit sex is common, domestic violence is very common in Canada, intimate partner violence and murder, youth growing up out of control, and rampant crime and sexual violence such as rape. All these things are linked to the breakdown of the social order which is tied to the abandonment of Christian beliefs. The huge drug addiction problem with accompanying overdose deaths is another result. Tent cities full of homeless people in the major cities is another problem. Governments placing individual freedom above public safety is another problem caused by lack of Christian beliefs. Medical assistance in dying is another result. Over 13,000 people per year now being killed by MAID. All problems can be traced back to the decay of morality and collapse of Judeo-Christian civilization in the world.

The reason it should not be taught in school is as I have said LGBT is not normal. Is is contrary to historic Judeo-Christian beliefs and contrary to the biological function of mankind. The fact that the school system is full of people who do not hold Christian moral beliefs of what is right and wrong also means a moral issue such as sex should not be taught in school. That should be left to parents. Society is deeply divided on what is right and what is wrong. Many believe pre-marital sex is acceptable; others disagree and belief the Biblical principle that sex is to be only within the strict confines of marriage between a man and woman. Schools do not respect this principle. Consequently, they are contributing to the decay of the social order, i.e. the nuclear family made up of a man and woman and their children.

Yes, because many people are suffering from mental problems, we cannot simply assume they know what they are doing. We are usually not in a position to tell other people what they are doing is wrong. You would be amazed how easy going I am with people.

Also, many people who do abnormal things are doing it because they have mental problems. I think that is what is driving many things we see happening in the world today. I think a significant percentage of people are struggling with mental issues that affects their judgment.

Of course not. I already explained why I disagree with it. I simply don't think it is possible to change. But I am not going to hassle anyone over it. I disagree with people covering themselves with tatoos. I think it is self harm, but I am not going to say anything about it. There was somebody in McDonalds the other day shouting and ranting. I don't agree with that but I am not going to say anything. I don't go around trying to police the world. But I am entitled to disagree with some things just as you are. This forum is the place where people make their disagreements known and express their opinions or beliefs. But most of us probably don't go around saying the same things to people we meet or know. It just wouldn't work out.

Normal??? Can you give any evidence to support that? Fifty years ago, if you made such a statement to anybody, they would think you were out of your mind. What has been believed as normal for thousands of years is that a person is what they are born as biologically. It is only in the last number of years that some people like you think a person can change their sex or sexual gender. So how can anybody claim or believe it is "normal"? In fact, give us the proof that a person can really biologically and scientifically change their gender. You have to have some proof or evidence to say it is normal. Since you have none, I assume you are just making it up for the sake of argument. You love to argue and make outrageous statements if you think it goes against my religious beliefs. I really think that is the only reason you are making such statements. Since you claim that I am a religious nutjob for believing the Bible, I would have to say that makes you the bigot. You obviously don't believe in freedom of religion. You also misuse the word bigot. I never advocated that anyone just be discriminated against for being LGBT / trans. I said I simply disagreed with it being promoted in schools to kids and I disagree that a person can actually change their gender. That is not being a bigot. It is simply disagreeing about certain claims. Other than the two points I have stated, I think they should be treated respectfully in schools and not discriminated against in society as for example in jobs and housing. The only bigot is someone who calls religious people nutjobs. That shows extreme bias and unreasonableness.

What are "trans rights"? What gives anyone the right to teach LGBT / trans is normal to school children? This is not just a religious issue as you paint it. This is a societal, medical, mental, health issue that has deep consequences for society. It is teaching kids that there is no such thing as a traditional or normal family made up of a male father and female mother. That is taboo now in the new progressive, liberal world. And parents don't have a right in many places to know what is happening to their kids in schools and have a say in it.

I never said it needs to be said they are abnormal. That is you saying that because you know it's a fact. I say the whole subject should not be talked about at all in schools. It should be a taboo subject for obvious reasons. You are saying nothing new. It is not strictly a religious matter. It is a health, mental, and societal social issue. It is destroying much of society. LGBT is not normal no matter how much people beat their drums or march in the streets. It is causing great harm to many individuals involved in it because it is not a normal life style. It is harmful. People who are religious have often been discriminated against all through history because it does not conform with mainstream society or what is popular. Nobody who believes the Bible and is a faithful Christian expects to be patted on the back or respected by mainstream society. That is just the reality of living in a wicked world.

Actually all these LGBT and Trans issues are having a major impact on the public school system and young people. They are now grooming kids to accept all this nonsense by teaching them it is normal, while falsely claiming it is to reduce or eliminate bullying. That is just a cover. Surely they can teach and oppose bullying without needing that kind of an excuse. Bullying is simply wrong. Don't need a reason to forbid it. If bullies won't stop bullying after some discipline, kick them out of the school system and force them to study at home by using the home education system. They can teach kids in school that everyone has to be treated respectfully and without hurtful speech or comments. That should be taught in schools anyway. But there is no need to teach kids LGBT is normal. That subject should be taboo or off limits for schools. Simply take that subject out of the school system and stick to the three RRRs. So yes it is having an impact on society as a whole. We know you want to play it down but that's just an excuse because you have no real argument to support the trans agenda. You support it all but have no rational reason.

Canada has been accepting refugees continually. We took in about 40,000 Afghans in the last year or two, 50,000 Syrians after Trudeau was elected, but Trudeau turned his back Christians in the middle east who are persecuted or living in danger. We take in hundreds of thousands of immigrants a year mainly from third world countries without giving a thought to how it would affect the housing situation here. Thousands of illegal migrants were crossing the border and still are. So how many refugees do you think Canada should take in in 2024? Do you think Canada owes anything to its citizens who can't find an affordable home now?

Many Canadians are suffering now. Why not take care of Canadians first? Canada does more than its share on the world by sending hundreds of millions of dollars all over the place. We also brought in hundreds of thousands of immigrants for various reasons every year and now there is not enough housing for Canadians. After Trudeau was elected in 2015, Canada brought in about 50,000 Syrian refugees. How many of them blocked existing Canadians from housing and how many of them have actual meaningful jobs and not living off the government?

I would say one of the biggest failings of Canada is its downward spiral and rejection of western Judeo-Christianity. One of the consequences of this is the rejection of the principle of private property. Private property is a Judeo-Christian principle base on such teachings in the Holy Scriptures as "thou shalt no steal" in the ten commandments back in the Old Testament but reinforced throughout the Bible. The idea that big government (or Big Brother) knows best and has an inalienable right to everyone's private property is nothing more than a Lie of the Devil. But that is exactly what much of today's governments and society believe in Canada. Nobody has a right to private property if the state deems it knows how to use it better and provide social services of all kinds. The same principle that there are no absolute fundamental rights if the state deems the people do not have such rights. If the common good is deemed more important than individual rights and property or wealth, then the state has the right to take those away. That is the prevailing ideology in Canada today and that is why it fits in with Marxism. We have a perfect example of this when the Trudeau government seized the bank accounts of the Freedom or Convoy protesters. There was no judicial process involved. They just did it because they can.

" On October 10th, Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced that Canada will welcome up to 11,000 Colombians, Haitians and Venezuelans through a new humanitarian permanent residence pathway. Sponsor your family for Canadian immigration Starting this fall, Colombian, Haitian and Venezuelan foreign nationals located in Central or South America or the Caribbean who have extended family connections in Canada will be eligible to apply for the new pathway. In order to qualify, the principal applicant must be a child, grandchild, spouse, common law partner, parent, grandparent or sibling of a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. Successful applicants will be offered pre-arrival services, including an employment skills assessment and a referral to a settlement provider organization in their intended community. IRCC has said that more detailed information will be available closer to the launch of the new pathway." Canada to welcome Colombians, Haitians, and Venezuelans through new permanent residence pathway | CIC News Where is this government's brain? We already have a huge housing crisis and ever-increasing numbers of people depending on food banks. How will these people fit in with our economy and how will they lessen the economic problems Canada already faces. If eleven thousand people are being brought in to Canada from total disaster countries like Haiti that are full of criminals and crime, how is this going to help Canada? But more liberal, left votes of course.

You just confirmed what I have been saying. Canada is a Socialist Welfare state. There is no doubt about it. The liberal left believe in Big Brother control of everything and there is no limit to the amount of taxation they can enforce. You yourself have already proven you are a strong supporter and advocate of a Big Brother welfare state. That is what you got. Most people don't understand what they are doing in supporting these kind of people. The fact is with the ideology that most people follow and our government embraces we are moving steadily to Orwell's 1984 Big Brother type of government. The reason is because most people, like yourself, believe they are like a child and government is their father. They believe like you do that government must provide everything no matter how it is achieved. That means ever-increasing taxation and ever-increasing services provided by Big Brother. In the process, most people don't know or don't care that they are losing their freedoms. That doesn't matter to most people because they only look at how many and how good the services are that Big Brother provides. That is all that matters in the welfare state that we live in. You are getting what you want. Whether it will last or not I don't know. The whole thing could collapse. The foundation of the welfare state may be built on sand. The system is already heavily stressed. There are millions of people that can't afford to buy a home and many have to go to food banks to survive and pay the rent. This is stressing the system tremendously. Yet the left still demands more government services such as universal pharmacare that would cost billions more. Yet for millions of other people, they receive all the pharmacare they need through their private health insurance, their government employee health plan or heavily subsidized pharmacare system that provinces pay. What will happen to all that if the government brings in universal pharmacare at massive expense? Perhaps it will upset the apple cart and the whole system will be in a crisis. It could take massive tax increases to pay for it forcing millions more people to food banks and increasing the housing crisis. Then there is the guaranteed basic income that would cost tens or hundreds of billions. There is no end to the demands of Big Brother. The Socialist Welfare state has a huge problem. They want to provide everything for everyone no matter what it costs. The taxpayers are forced to try to pay for it all. But the money is just not enough for all the demands. At some point the system will begin to crack and there could be crisis after crisis as the different welfare programs begin to collapse.

Of course it is. Is is a form of Socialism called Welfarism. Canada is a welfare state. Many Canadians now believe like a child and think their Father is the government and government must provide everything. That makes it a kind of Socialist Welfare state. Government has become Big Brother in reality and kind of god in many people's mind. Liberals and the Socialist NDP have deliberately pushed Canada in that direction. They know it will increase their power and control over the masses of commoners. They couldn't care less about individual freedoms or rights. They couldn't care less about how much of everyone's income must be paid to the government to run all the programs. There is no limit in their mind. As long as government becomes the Big Brother, that's all that counts in their mind. This is how a society becomes enslaved, looses it freedoms, and becomes a ward of the state. That is happening and has been happening all along. It is central liberal and left (NDP) ideology. A kind of Marxism if you understand.

It is ridiculous having taxes on everything that exists. Why tax people for the essentials of life like gas, road, electricity? Why not just have income taxes? Same with carbon taxes. People pay for how much natural gas they use to heat their home no matter how low their income. Poor people pay the same as rich people to heat their homes. That nuts. They put taxes on all kinds of things, which requires a huge bureaucracy. It becomes so complex that nobody knows exactly what everybody is paying. You have municipal taxes, provincial income taxes, sales taxes, GST taxes, federal income taxes, carbon taxes, GST on carbon taxes, gas taxes, and probably other taxes. We are living under tax madness.

What is extreme is the federal and provincial governments that tax as much as possible. We live in a country of extreme taxation and it is going to get worse. More social programs means more taxes. Nothing is free. If you just sit back and don't oppose it, it will get worse. Probably get worse no matter what because we do not have any say. If you just accept taxation of course the governments are going to push it as far as possible. The people demand everything without thinking of who is going to pay for it.

The carbon tax is particularly egregious because it is a phony tax. It is now opposed by a large part of the population and a number of provinces, particularly on home heating. People should never be taxed for essential things like home heating or driving their kids to school or going to the store. Of course GST is also part of Socialism. The taxes are used to fund Liberal's pet projects, and send around the world for their ideological projects. They are used to give grants to all kinds of things. Our money is used for handouts by government for everything under the sun.

Of course I try hard to follow all traffic laws. I see many lawless drivers speeding past me when they get the chance in a 50 KPH zone. Do you not even attempt to follow the traffic laws? Or do you think it is not important? That's how you come across. Yes I come to a full stop. I see many people who don't though. How do mean run a yellow light. We are allowed to cross in a yellow light if there is not enough time to stop normally. Did you know that?

Carbon taxes and extreme regulations on the energy industry. Spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give to companies for EV battery plants while Canadians are suffering in a housing crisis and food costs skyrocketing. Forcing everyone to pay for just heating their homes or driving their cars. Trudeau couldn't care less; he is a dictator.

A somewhat famous lawyer made a study of the Bible subject of the resurrection and came to the conclusion it does meet all of the legal requirements for being a fact and would be accepted as fact in a court of law. The Bible records a number of eye witnesses that corroborate the fact that Jesus was raised from the dead. That is not similar to a weatherman giving his forecast for next week. There is no similarity at all. Why do you feel you must add blasphemous language to make your argument?

Yes, an example of the lawlessness.

Funny how you oppose anyone speaking against your support of LGBTQ123. Something that is a national issue is certainly federal. We see Trudeau marching in pride parades every chance he can get.

The vehicle to bring in more Socialism and authoritarianism is climate change. Trudeau is using it to the fullest extent he can to introduce more authoritarian control of the economy and society. Man-made climate change was invented by globalists like the United Nations. That is the main origin. It is a perfect tool to extend control over society because most people believe the lies and don't think much. They are easily scared into blindly following what they are told by people like Trudeau, Guilbeault, and little Greta. Most political professors and other so-called experts in universities are Marxists and the media uses them constantly to brainwash the people. School children protest in the thousands. They are groomed early. The only small hope for a brake on this agenda is the fact the conservatives are leading in the opinion polls and Trudeau and the Liberals are plummeting. The problem is I am not sure the Conservatives are really a whole lot different than the Liberals as far as Socialist policies and the evil of progressivism.

Saw a man walk across the street on a red light with his about 3 year old daughter. He even started after it was already red. It was actually my turn to make a right turn with my vehicle, but I waited to see what he was going to do. Then he started walking across.