McVety: officially obsessed with homosexuality

Today our favourite religious right whackjob, Chuck McVety, issued a spittle-flecked screed declaring that "Canada is now officially a homosexual country".

This little outburst was initiated by a gorgeous Norval Morrisseau painting with the sinister title "Androgyny", installed last month at the Governor-General's residence at Rideau Hall:

"On September 18, 2008 a new artwork was installed in the Rideau Hall Ballroom. Created by world-renowned Canadian Aboriginal artist Norval Morrisseau, the painting, entitled Androgyny, replaces Charlottetown Revisited..." [...]

In Androgyny, Morrisseau represents the Ojibway shaman’s world view, showing a thriving and bountiful world in which all the diverse elements are in perfect balance."

From that, McVety goes right off his rocker to arrive at this pretzel of a reaction to the painting:

"The Governor General’s website describes the giant 20 foot mural as follows: “In the Okanagan, as in many Native tribes, the order of life learning is that you are born without sex and as a child, through learning, you move toward full capacity as either male or female. Only when appropriately prepared for the role do you become a man or woman. The natural progression into parenthood provides immense learning from each other, the love, compassion and cooperation necessary to maintain family and community. Finally as an elder you emerge as both male and female, a complete human, with all skills and capacities complete.” Does the Governor General actually believe that in order to be a complete human you must be both male and female?"

"...Many universities now talk about “self identified men and women” suggesting that it is discriminatory to label someone male or female unless they chose to identify themselves as a specific gender. Such political correctness has slithered all the way to the top, and now a mural depicting this insanity adorns the official seat of power of the Country of Canada.

This concept is not new. Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Party appointed Dr. Carl Jung as their head of the International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy. He taught the concept that in the uncouncious of man is anima (femininity) and in the uncouncious of woman is animus (masculinity). Dr. Jung westernized this concept from the teachings of the Dali Lama in the Tibetan Book of the Dead."

Whoa, that's a pretty impressive segue: from a painting to Gays to Nazis to the Tibetan Book of the Dead... what, no Morgentaler?

In closing the spittle really starts to fly, and -- holy fucking shit! Stand back!:

Some would suggest that “Androgyny” is only a mural. However, when you consider that the Governor General will officially invest governmental power in the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers in the shaddow [sic] of this homosexual background, the only conclusion is that Canada is “officially” a homosexual country." (emphasis mine)

(And look at the map -- we're a "top".)

Seriously, the only conclusion I can draw from this deranged little diatribe is that Chuck is "officially" obsessed, and that obsession is about to blow his closet door right off its hinges in an explosion of spit, sweat and semen and a great puff of greasy, stenchy smoke. Move away people, give him room!

McVety "not surprised" complaint tossed

Okay, yesterday Birth Pangs brought us up to date on Chuck McVety's lame and astroturfed complaint against Justice Beverley McLachlin: EPIC FAIL. Strangely, only the Globe & Mail and the USian version of lifesite was reporting it. So far not a peep from lifesite or for that matter, any of the vile scum who championed the complaint. (Well, I'd probably be looking the other way too.)

But anyway, today the Star reports:

"The Canadian Judicial Council has thrown out a complaint against a Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin that accused her of playing an inappropriate role in recommending Dr. Henry Morgentaler be nominated for the Order of Canada."

and adds that Jabba the McVety has finally stirred and croaked out a response:

"Charles McVety, who as president of the Canada Family Action Coalition drafted the complaint letter, said he disagreed with much of the decision but was not surprised." (E.M.)

Not surprised? Then why the fuck did you cretins file the bogus complaint in the first place!? I want to know how much this little sham costed US, the TAXPAYERS. And I want McVety to pay it all back -- Every. Fucking. Cent. Until then, I don't want to see any of these improvident socon imbeciles running their mouths about "taxpayers' money". Like I said before...

Chuck McVety, call your office

Never mind all the mewling and whining at the government to block the license for Canada's new porn channel, "Northern Peaks". A Saudi cleric has an even better idea:

"Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.

The 79-year-old Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan said Thursday that satellite channels cause the "deviance of thousands of people." Many of the most popular Arab satellite networks -- which include channels showing music videos often denounced as obscene by Muslim conservatives -- are owned by Saudi princes and well-connected Saudi businessmen. Al-Lihedan did not specify any particular channels." [...]

""I want to advise the owners of these channels, who broadcast calls for such indecency and impudence ... and I warn them of the consequences," he said.

"What does the owner of these networks think, when he provides seduction, obscenity and vulgarity?" he said.

"Those calling for corrupt beliefs, certainly it's permissible to kill them," he said. "Those calling for sedition, those who are able to prevent it but don't, it is permissible to kill them."" (emphasis mine)

Censorship is for wimps and pussies, Chuck. For hard-core Social Conservatives, summary execution is where it's at.

Come on... you know you wanna.

Riding Roughshod over the McVety Show

I've never seen Charles McVety talk for more than a few snack-sized sound bites, so last night I watched his show, which runs on the Miracle Channel, online. OUCH. My unrelentingly logical mind tends to start screaming in agony when exposed to more than a few minutes of incoherent non-sequiturs and straw men, so 20 minutes of raw, unleashed and unchained McVety was kind of a shock to the system. I may have to call in sick today.

This week, McVety treated his viewers to a rambling, repetitive and factually-inaccurate diatribe against the she-devil, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. He opened with something about "42 groups filing a complaint" (inaccurate fact #1) and went on to list 7 ways McLachlin had contravened Chuckles' Rules of Order. McLachlin, it seems, is a threat not only to democracy, but to the very fabric and foundation of Our Society, the rule of law, the family, marriage and everything else, because according to McVety she "rode roughshod" over the Order of Canada constitution. McVety got more "uh uh umm" exercised the longer he spoke, at one point sounding like he was shitting his pants ("Uh! Huh! Uhh! UHHH!!!"). And maybe he was: I would be too, if I'd been caught ASTROTURFING.

McVety was particularly incensed that in the past, McLachlin advised judges to have "active imaginations". "Active imaginations" -- what kind of thing is that for our judges to have??" thundered McVety. Those active imaginations were apparently responsible for "re-defining marriage" and causing the sky to come crashing down upon us. McVety rode roughshod over Justice Roy McMurtry, who was instrumental in making equal marriage the law in Ontario. After which all the provinces fell, one by one, like rainbow-coloured dominoes... SHRIEEEK!

McVety's 20-minute tirade was naturally punctuated with feverish pleas for cash -- "Get involved! Get a degree from Canada Christian College! Call us tonight! Our operators are standing by!" -- as the words "MASTERCARD or VISA available!" scrolled along the bottom of the screen. These unrelenting hucksters always have an eye on the Main Chance.

"Call us tonight"? Well, I tried.

Unfortunately, operators were not standing by -- either that or the Jesus Camp Phone Police already have my number flagged as that of a godless miscreant and worse, a cheapskate. By divine intervention, my call was greeted with a continuous busy signal, and being one of the amoral "leftists" who demands instant gratification, I hung up. Maybe that's how they weed us out. Oh well, I'm pretty sure Chuckles wouldn't have wanted to answer my questions about Astroturfing anyway... even if he'd really been available to speak to, which he wasn't, this show having been pre-recorded. Chiselers!

The video, should you be so inclined, is up at word.ca... it really must be seen to be believed.

Don't call us "goofballs", babykiller.

We have a pulse! Yesterday Cliff Pyle, "Life Ministry Co-ordinator" of Saskatchewan "Lutherans For Life" (and husband of Life Canada's Saskatchewan rep, Nicole Pyle) responded to Colby Cosh's merciless smackdown of the CFAC's absurd complaint against Justice Beverley McLachlin. Boo hoo hoo!:

"Colby Cosh's ad hominem attack on Brian Rushfeldt and Canada Family Action Coalition shows how liberal thinking operates in our fair land: If you don't agree with it, attack it with animus and subjectivity.

His comment about "Punting deeper still into goofball territory" is language unbecoming of a journalist."

"Lutherans for Life" is one of the groups clinging tenuously to life on the updated list of the "42 Organizations™©®etc.etc"... though Cliff didn't mention Colby Cosh's derisive snort about the veracity of Rushfeldt's "42" ("CanAm Fabricating & Welding stands strong in favour of life!"). No, it was being referred to as "goofball territory" that Mr. Pyle just couldn't abide.

Truth hurts, I guess. If these people don't like being ridiculed, maybe they should stop being ridiculous. Until then, I see no reason not to continue unabatedly deriding and mocking them with great gusto and uninhibited joy.

The "42 Organizations" Crash Diet

Woohoo! Here's the most current list of the Canada Family Action Coalition's "42 organizations" that signed the complaint against Justice McLachlin, revised to reflect its Ultra TRUTHfast™ diet and subsequent slim-down. As it stands, without the bloat there are now 20 legitimate "groups", less than half of the original 42. To those still left on the list:

"Have ya called Buckets yet?"

UPDATE (Aug. 23): 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18! ~ 18!

Chuck McVety: Feminist Icon

Shorter Chuckles McVety: "My complaint against Justice McLachlin is swirling in the bowl. Look! Over there! Shiny, sparkly, pornographic thing!"

"A faith-based conservative family group said it would like the Harper government to intervene to block a broadcasting licence issued to a new Canadian porn channel.

The Canada Family Action Coalition wants the Conservatives to quash last week's decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to grant a licence to adult film network Northern Peaks."

The licence granted to Alberta-based Real Productions requires the new channel broadcast 50 per cent Canadian content. That means Canadian young people will be enlisted to work on and in some cases appear in porn films, says Charles McVety, president of CFAC.

"It is to the public detriment to fuel an industry where women are degraded and treated as sex objects," he said." (emphasis mine)

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Like taking away our reproductive rights and turning us into baby-making machines isn't treating us as objects? How is being treated as a forced-birthing object any better than being treated as a sex object?

And bonus: "Charles McVety"? Not "DOCTOR Charles McVety"? You're getting it, MSM. Next step: questions! questions! and more questions!

(H/T: PSA)

Taking a closer look

It's melting, melting... the number of *legitimate* organizations on The List of 42™ now stands at 26. And as Buckets toiled tirelessly into the night, just for fun I decided to take a closer look at some of the "organizations" that remained to see if I get in on some of this sweet Chuckstomping, credibility-shredding action.

I started with "United Families Canada". UFC doesn't appear to have its own website, but there's a United Families International. "United Families Canada" isn't in UFI's list of chapters, but under "Projects" there's a link to a site called "Restore Marriage Canada", which claims to be a project of "United Families Canada".


United Families Canada has no website, no phone number, and -- great snappin' assholes, it's the Ghost of KLRVU, back to haunt me! But with no web presence, no contact info other than this email addy for "Restore Marriage Canada", and no way of finding out who heads up this group, should it even qualify as a "group"?

Or if UFC is really just UFI, an American organization, should they really be named in a complaint against a Canadian SC justice? Who knows, maybe anyone in the world can file a complaint... or maybe this is just another case of "astroturfing for Jesus". Seriously, if all that's needed is an email addy, any asshole could set up an "organization".

For all its amorphousness, United Families Canada has a few supporters. While I was searching for UFC on Google, I ended up on a "men's rights" blog that had a post about United Families Canada from back when the socons were furiously campaigning to roll back equal marriage. The site "masculinisme" is predictably anti-feminist, but its blogroll is the real motherlode of misogyny, linking sites with names like "women are sexists", "exposing feminism", "feminist filth", "feminists are the real terrorists" and "dump your wife now"... huh!? "Dump your wife now"!? That doesn't sound like family values stuff to me! Anyway, it's a seriously misogynist little web-scab. Which made me wonder why, when I scrolled down to the bottom, I found this:

Huh!?? Oh SUZANNE, you nefarious little gender-traitor, you! BUSTED!!!

UPDATE: Did I say 26 groups? D'oh! 25, baby!

Let the good times (and letters to the Globe & Mail) roll!

HAHAHAHAHA! Here in the Miscreants' Corner, it's been an asskickingly good time today since law blogger Christopher Bird took the fundies' complaint against Justice Beverley McLachlin out to the parking lot for a good beat down. But it's not all fun and games. There's work to do.

What have we got? Let's recap:

1. An entity misrepresenting itself as "42" groups, organizations, coalitions, circlejerks, whatever, when in fact (as meticulously documented by Buckets), there are at best 28 27 groups.

2. Even some of the "groups" within the Gang of 42™ were found not to be groups at all, but rather ideologically like-minded individuals. Sophistry like this -- a woman who runs a one-person wedding and marriage counseling service under the name of "Together for Life Ministries" and is counted as "an organization" -- is rampant.

3. According to Christopher Bird's spectacular smackdown, from a legal standpoint the complaint itself is bogus, misrepresenting not only the people who filed it, but Justice McLachlin, the Order of Canada process and the law itself:

"The Canada Family Action Coalition and their “42 organizations” have misrepresented themselves, misrepresented Chief Justice McLachlin and misrepresented the law. This is dishonest."

4. We have our intrepid mainstream media, who without a second of research or critical thought, swallowed whole the story barfed up by one of the shysters who's running this pernicious little scam, then regurgitated it for public consumption. (Including continuing to call McVety "doctor", a title he may or may not have earned.)

Those are the pieces to the puzzle.

Now. All summer long, McVety and his fellow socon travellers have been grousing and whining, gasping and swooning, shrieking and fainting about the Morgentaler Order of Canada. They've tried protests, facebook groups, medal returns, MASSIVE polls and more, all to no avail. The complaint against Justice McLachlin is just one more item in a laundry list of failed fetus fetishist fuckery. But MASSIVE POLLs are one thing, trying to have a Supreme Court Chief Justice impeached is another.

It's long past time for the MSM to look at the puzzle we've obligingly pieced together ('specially Buckets and Christopher) and publish the truth: start exposing these cheap chiselers and theocratic snake oil salesmen for the frauds they are. To start, let us make a not-so-joyful noise unto the Globe & Mail. To start.

UPDATE: Antonia Z gets it. If only the rest would follow her lead.

And the BLOGGER gazed upon her e-mail... and saw that it was GOOD.

Last night something came up in my Google alerts that looked interesting. It was a post at Court.ca, the Osgoode Law School blog, that seemed to indicate the complaint filed by the 42 Religious Groups™ against Justice McLachlin wasn't all it was cracked up to be.


So I clicked: 404. Damn. Google cache yielded nothing, obviously it was too recent a post. Fuck. But to my coffee-spewing delight, an email from Christopher Bird, the author of the post, informs me that the post is up now, baby, and WOOHOOHAHAHAHA, YES!

Christopher picks up the 42 Religious Groups™©® ball and runs with that awhile:

"In short, the list of “42 organizations” is shockingly dishonest even before it says anything, seeking to portray individuals as political organizations and overstating the political impact of the actual organizations by falsely multiplying their number."

...then he gets into the legal meat of the complaint itself and kicks its ass around the block.

Christopher winds up for the TKO:

"Of all the allegations contained within this deeply spurious letter, this is the most serious, which is no doubt why it led Chief Justice McLachlin to take the rare step of publicly addressing the matter. She explained that she did not lead discussion or even vote for Morgentaler, but merely chaired the meeting to make sure that the vote is conducted fairly. In response to this eminently reasonable answer, the Canada Family Action Coalition complained that she did not address their spurious complaints and insulted her repeatedly.

The Canada Family Action Coalition and their “42 organizations” have misrepresented themselves, misrepresented Chief Justice McLachlin and misrepresented the law. This is dishonest. More ironically, it is also un-Christian: as the Bible states in Isaiah 8:20, “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”"

Oh, Chuck. Bad Chuck. NASTY Chuck. UN-Christian Chuck. THIS judge finds you GUILTY of LYING DOUCHEBAGGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE, and hereby sentences you to a lifetime of watching an endless loop of "Young People Fucking"... oh wait, that's already ongoing, isn't it?

UPDATE: In my feverish Chuckstomping excitement, I didn't read any further than Christopher's email, but I see Pogge also emailed me about this, and posted about it. (Thanks, pogge!)

Keep talking, douchebags

After a 2-day window of stunned silence (and scrambling like chickens on speed to come up with a statement that might help mend their tattered credibility), there's finally been a response to Justice McLachlin's drop-kick to the withered nads of the 42 39 38 37 36 33 29 28(?) Religious Groups™ demanding her impeachment. And a slimy piece of goalpost-shifting sophistry it is, but what else would you expect from a vile scumbag and cheap chiseler like Charles McVety?:

"However, Dr. McVety, whose organization launched a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council about the Chief Justice's conduct in the Morgentaler matter, said her explanation implicates her even more deeply in misconduct. "We* were quite astonished to read reports of what she had said," Dr. McVety said.

"We never accused her of voting. We accused her of disregarding the constitution that she is bound to serve. By expressing her approval of the process, she is expressing approval of Morgentaler's activism on abortion."

*"We" -- heh. And so what? Abortion is a legal procedure, so who cares if McLachlin approves of it or not? Well, there's an answer for that, too:

"Dr. McVety said that as the chair of a committee that is instrumental in conferring honours on individuals, some of whom may represent controversial causes that could come before the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice's independence is automatically compromised." (emphasis mine)

"Controversial causes that might come before the Supreme Court" -- like abortion, maybe?

It's become abundantly clear that the religious whackjobs and crotch-sniffers are hoping for some kind of court action involving abortion in the foreseeable future, probably initiated by Bill C-484 (if it passed, which is unlikely), and are working feverishly to ensure that no womens' rights-favouring judge will screw it up for them. If they can't stack the Supreme Court with conservatives by appointment, they'll do it by attrition. That's one of the reasons this bogus complaint won't go anywhere -- if McVety was successful in having one justice removed, that would just be the beginning.

It's funny how they totally miss the underlying meaning of this whole Morgentaler thing, which is that Justice McLachlin's independence hasn't been compromised for the simple reason that abortion rights will never come before the Supreme Court again. Ever. It's already been done, and no government with an instinct of self-preservation would even think about doing it again, regardless of what some of the fundamentalist chimps in caucus might say.

McVety's continuing censorship dreams

The discussion going on here in the comments about the uneasy alliance of social conservatives and libertarian conservatives reminded me of yet another example of why this marriage of convenience is so inexplicable.

The ever-loathesome socon mouthpiece Chuck McVety has censorship on the brain, and he's determined to make his censorious fantasies come true. His first kick at the censorship can, Bill C-10, was de-fanged and eviscerated by a couple of Liberal senators, but that won't get him down -- not while he's still got this one in the hopper. Lately McVety's "Canada Family Action Coalition" has been emailing their membership to remind them about this issue, so they're obviously trying to give it some traction.

It goes without saying that child pornography is odious and despicable -- but it also goes without saying that it's already against the law, and we have entire teams of cops working on nothing but that particular crime in all its venues, including the internet. If purveyors of child porn are caught, they're prosecuted: simple.

But that's not good enough for McVety, who feels that the government should get in on the act and force ISPs to block such sites. McVety's "block kiddyporn" website encourages concerned Canadians to sign petitions, call their ISPs and rattle their MPs' cages, all to that end... so that ISPs and the government can start blocking websites.

In typical socon fashion, it's a sneaky strategy, using the kiddyporn straw man to get the jackboot of censorship in the door of the worldwide web. But is online child porn activity so huge and so widespread that the police can't handle it? Is it so massive and out of control that it justifies something as extreme as giving government and ISPs the means of censoring websites? Give me a break!

This is more of what socons like to call "incrementalism" -- knowing their agenda wouldn't fly with most Canadians, they realize their best shot is to do things in small, acceptable and barely-noticeable increments. Chip away at reproductive rights... for the women. Chisel away at online free expression... for the children. Like an abortion law wouldn't end at banning late-term abortions, online censorship wouldn't end with child pornography. What McVety proposes would set a dangerous and ugly precedent.

And you don't have to be a libertarian to recognize that.