Real women condemn human-rights violations. No, not the organization calling itself REAL Women of Canada. I mean, real women 鈥� no organizational name needed, because they鈥檙e everywhere in Canada.
Last week, REAL Women鈥檚 national vice-president Gwendolyn Landolt attacked Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird for speaking out against anti-gay legislation in Russia, as well as Uganda and Kenya. She complained that he wasn鈥檛 speaking for 91原创s, only for himself. She then stated that his actions were 鈥渉ighly offensive to conservative taxpayers,鈥� and indicated that she speaks for 91原创s, as Baird鈥檚 pro-homosexual views are not 鈥渃onservative values and that of grassroots 91原创s.鈥�
They鈥檙e not? Hmm. I wonder where Landolt was in 2001, when former Tory prime minister Joe Clark proudly served as the marshal for Calgary鈥檚 gay pride parade.
It would be comical, if it weren鈥檛 so pathetic, that Landolt accuses Baird of presuming to speak for 91原创s, and then does the same thing she accuses him of, and presumes to speak for 91原创s herself.
The hypocrisy doesn鈥檛 stop there.
In her press release last week, she talked about how Baird 鈥渁dmitted working extensively behind the scenes to prevent Russia from passing legislation designated to protect Russian minors from homosexual propaganda鈥� 鈥� in other words, to prevent Russian children from being adopted by same-sex couples. She said that Russia shut down foreign adoptions of Russian children after 鈥渉orrendous child abuse; for example, adoptive 鈥榝athers鈥� in Australia together with other men, sexually abused a six-year-old boy, starting at 22 months of age, born of a Russian surrogate mother.鈥�
Landolt neglects to mention that all is not well on her cherished nuclear-family front, either. The Texas Department of Social Services is looking into the case of two teenage girls, adopted from Russia, who鈥檝e been removed from their adoptive parents, Michael and Penny Deckert, of Silsbee, Texas, because of allegations of sexual abuse.
Moreover, Landolt has done a little fancy footwork with the facts. Russia did not end all foreign adoptions because of the Australian case; it banned gay couples from adopting because of that case. However, Russia banned all Americans from adopting orphans as a retaliatory measure after the U.S. passed the Sergei Magnitsky Act into law. The act provides for sanctions such as visa bans and freezing of American assets for Russian authorities linked with the 2009 prison death of a lawyer who blew the whistle on a fraud involving tax refunds allegedly headed by the police and tax inspectors. The ban on American adoptions had nothing to do with gays.
REAL Women鈥檚 website declares that its members鈥� common bond 鈥渋s our belief that the family is the most important unit in society.鈥� One can only infer that REAL Women would prefer to see Russian children languish in orphanages, deprived of a loving family, if the parents in that loving family are a same-sex couple.
In April, children at an orphanage in Russia鈥檚 Khabarovsk region were severely beaten by drunken nurses 鈥渢o get them to stop crying,鈥� according to the New York Times. The Times reported that 鈥渙ne of the victims, a seven-month-old, was wrapped in a sheet and stuffed in a plastic container to muffle the cries.鈥�
I鈥檓 sure any of the 650,000 children living in Russian orphanages would rather be beaten and stuffed in a plastic container by drunken caregivers than be properly clothed, fed, loved and taken for a walk by two gay guys.
Landolt says she doesn鈥檛 鈥渨ant other countries to get what we have here where people鈥檚 religious values and traditional values are being pushed aside and giving homosexuals priority.鈥�
Whose religious and traditional values are being pushed aside? People are free to live by whatever values they please.
Landolt adds: 鈥淚t is a fact, that homosexual activists in Canada are intolerant of any resistance to their demands, and, as such have become a tyrannical minority.鈥� That鈥檚 true. Why, Monday morning, as I arrived at the office, a tyrannical homosexual activist blocked my way and said in a menacing tone: 鈥淗ey, you, ditch your husband and give up the straight lifestyle. Or else.鈥�
I support Baird in his crusade for human rights for gays. Sorry, Gwendolyn, but you are the tyrannical minority and you have no business presuming to speak for me. Don鈥檛 do it again, OK?
