The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Reject actual reality and substitute transgender ideology’s own.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Transgenderism isn’t about people being free to call themselves what they want and live their lives freely; transgenderism is a fundamentally totalitarian belief system whereby dissenters will be punished for not sharing in the fantasy.

“There’s no such thing as ‘free’ speech in Canada. If Christians want to express themselves, it’ll cost them. And the going rate isn’t cheap. According to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, the price tag for agreeing with the Bible—and biology—on gender is a whopping 55,000 Canadian dollars.

“Bill Whatcott’s crime wasn’t being a Christian. It was refusing to hide it. When a biological man ran as a woman in a Vancouver-False Creek election, Whatcott started a campaign to expose the transgender agenda. Leading up to the vote, he printed 1,500 flyers about the harms of Morgane Oger’s lifestyle, complete with Scripture references and pictures. Although it wasn’t necessarily artful, it wasn’t legitimately “hateful” either.

“Oger disagreed, filing a complaint that his human rights had been violated. Whatcott countered, insisting that what he wrote ‘was an act of religious expression.’

“As he told his supporters on Facebook, ‘I am on trial today for properly gendering an NDP political candidate who thinks he’s a woman but was indeed born a biological male.’ He said he sees it as his “duty” to “stand for the truth, to stand against coercion and trying to force us to use the pronouns that are fake, to call men “women,” and to call women “men.”‘

“The three-person tribunal ultimately sided with Oger, ordering Whatcott to fork over $35,000 in compensation to Oger, along with a $20,000 fine for ‘improper conduct’ during the proceedings.”

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