It's those libertarian values that allow you to attend gay pride parades holding up your anti-gay signs Merle. How many times have you complained about the hippies dragging their kids to peace rallies or to the afore mentioned pride parades? How many kids do you see at LPC, NDP and CPC rallies? Christians are offensive in our multi-cult society. Should the government be taking Christian kids away from their parents? If we're going to draw a line Merle, where's it going to be and who gets to hold the fucking pencil?

My right to peacefuly protest a gay pride parade is not the same as the danger of a parent indoctrinating their child with nazi like hate.

If I remember correctly, your gay pride protest didn't end all that peacefully. Assault charges were laid were they not? So far, your "peaceful" protests have led to more violence than the girl with the swastika has experienced.

I went to a Heritage Front concert in Toronto way back when Wolfgang Droege ( now dead) was in charge and met a girl that was maybe 15 years old- or younger.
She said she hated Jews and one day they would all be dead. She said it very calmly and that was the scary part.

It turns out her parents were Klan and the people before them. It can be generational.

The same could be said for a lot of Muslim kids. Are you advocating that they be taken away from their parents as well?

1st of all that woman in Winnipeg is not being honest by not calling her self a nazi as thats just cloak. If you think she likes swastika's just for the shape of it you are sadly mistaken. White pride sounds better.

What about all the women that call themselves "progressive" as opposed to the correct term, "communist"? Should we be taking their children away as well?

Its abuse Richard to raise a child in that type of upbringing...

By what standard? Like I said earlier, if we're going to draw a line, where's it going to be and who gets to hold the pencil?

Libertarians take this stuff to far.

Would you be saying that if it were your children that were taken?

When Mormom cults are making 15 year old girl pregnant and married to their Uncle its time to do something!!

There are laws in regards to cults making 15 year old girls pregnant. Same thing goes with "Uncles".

The same goes for this Winnipeg situation.

Neither the little girl or her mother did anything illegal. Period!

The state has yet in Canada to take a child away because their parents are Baptists!! have you seen one case of that where the state has said you cant teach your child that Jesus loves you.

I don't know if you've been paying attention or not but the "state" has been, very recently, ruling that Christian teachings are hateful... People are being fined for publicly expressing opinion based in Christian theology. If the thought police can use the idea that a child is being brought up in a "hateful" environment to remove said child from the home, do you really think that they'll discriminate between the different types of "hateful" environment that they encounter?

I don't know about you Merle but I have no desire to live in a society where people are persecuted for their socio-political views at the whim of faceless bureaucrats.

Richard: Merle has a pathological bitterness on for Levant that makes his argumentation irrational and reflexive any place where Levant is concerned.

He has tunnel vision. Ezra is suing him for defamation because of some things Merle wrote in a letter to the editor that got published in a crappy magazine that nobody reads. I can't say that I agree with Ezra in his suit but he has the legal right to pursue it. Merle thinks that it's hypocritical of Ezra to be fighting the thought police while pursuing the defamation suit. What Merle doesn't understand is that there is a huge difference between "state censorship of thought and speech at the whim of faceless bureaucrats" and a "private legal case between two parties". With the former there is no real legal defense. With the latter, truth and the concept of "fair comment" are a defense.

In Merle's case, I hope he has truth on his side and wins the suit. Maybe then he'll be able to take off the blinders and have a good look at what's going on around him. He's a Christian. Maybe then he'll be able to see that the next group being targeted as being hateful, by the thought police, is his...

I dont have this cult like worship for Ezra like some of you that he can do no wrong.

The good that he's doing is being cheered. That doesn't mean that everything else is being overlooked or that he has any sort of "cult" following.

Clarification: Tyson Cormack of Calgary was charged with assault- he is a homosexual activist that was at the parade.

Yes, you're correct. You were attacked by one of the rump-humpers that you were protesting. I wasn't implying that you were violent, just that not all of your "peaceful" protests end "peacefully".

To the original point; You have the right to go out and publicly share your views while standing on a street corner protesting. Those views reach everyone who happens by, be they an elderly woman or a young boy. What gives you the right to do that? Does the mother in the story not have those same rights? Who are you to stand on a corner holding a "Sodomy is Sin" sign, in plain view of everyone, while denying this mother her right to pass her own values on to her own children? I'll say it again: If we're going to draw a line, Merle, where's it going to be and who gets to hold the pencil?

Until you answer that question, any further discussion is pointless...

This is nanny getting horribly out of control. The lack of foresight as to where feel-good policies could end up got us to where we are.

Yup...

It may be the courts true and not a HRC but is the end result not the same?

Not if truth is on your side, no.

By the way, you didn't answer the question... Where are we going to draw the line and who gets to hold the pencil?