Stephen Anderson, I see, is back at it. You may remember the hate-filled screed that this truly insane evangelical launched into following the Orlando massacre, one that was subsequently taken down from YouTube for violating its policy on hate speech.N…
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Montreal Simon: Is Donald Trump’s Campaign Going Down in Flames?
For a long time it seemed that nothing Donald Trump said or did could hurt him, or put a dent in his polls.But now that seems to be changing.Because after a very bad month, his campaign is now starting to look like a slow motion train wreck.Or plane cr…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "They’re Coming": A Paranoid NRA Interpretation of The Orlando Massacre
A little something to disturb your Father’s Day celebrations: In the wake of the massacre at Pulse night club in Orlando, National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre argued on Sunday that American families should arm themse…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rachel Notley and the Hatred That Kills
For years I have been warning that hatred kills. Like it did in Orlando last Sunday. Or like it did in Britain last Thursday.When the gentle, decent Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a another cowardly bigot.And I've also warned tha…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Gun Control
Before it degenerates near the end with Bill Mahar expressing his usual prejudices about Islam, this clip from his show is well-worth watching. Guests discuss gun control.The HBO Real Time panel, along with host Bill Maher, jumped all over a conservati…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Appalling gun lobby press release begs Canadians not to blame the gun used in massacre
PHOTOS: Retired Quebec Liberal Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette (Alchetron.com), whose Senate bill would make a sensible model for government gun-control legislation. Below: Conservative British Columbia MP Bob Zimmer, an advocate of lifting all Canadi…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Ask The Gays Outrage
As if it hasn't been a brutal enough week for the LBGT community. So many deaths, so much grief.And so much anger over the way people like Donald Trump are using their tragedy and their pain to try to hurt others.By whipping up hatred against Musli…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Christian Wrong
That, I humbly submit, should be the new name for the Christian right. They are wrong and depraved morally, ethically, theologically and humanly. It should be a source of collective shame that they are part of our species, as the following clip from Ra…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Glad I’m Not An American
Fellow Canadian Samantha Bee articulates the reasons for my gratitude:Recommend this Post
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Orlando Massacre and the Doctor’s Bloody Shoes
When I saw the first pictures of the Pulse nightclub shooting, and I saw the ambulances converging on the scene.And then because there weren't enough of them, I saw the wounded being loaded onto the back of pick up trucks.Two thoughts went through…
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Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Right Wing Media Tries to Deny the Reality of Homophobia
I attended this memorial in Toronto last night to remember the victims of the Orlando massacre.And although it was a beautiful peaceful event, afterwards I couldn't help but notice the anger of some of the LGBT people who attended.Anger over the …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Unfiltered Hatred
I don’t feel completely right posting this video in which a hatred-spewing ‘Christian’ pastor, Stephen L. Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church, offers his evaluation of the Orlando massacre. However, we cannot turn away from such evil ranters; …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Unspeakable
If there is any good to come from this terrible massacre, let it be the realization that the things that may set us apart are small indeed compared to the bonds that unite us.Recommend this Post
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Orlando Massacre and the Hatred that Kills
I am sure that by now most of you have heard the horrible news. A gunman entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, and opened fire on the innocent.So even though they are a relatively small minority, LGBT people are now the victims of the worst mass murde…
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