I just heard it on the news. Syria might be using torture in its prisons - which hold ten thousand prisoners. (US prisons hold a more reasonable 2.4 million).
Now, we will no doubt hear that NATO must intervene for humanitarian reasons, just as it did in Libya. The world cannot allow torture by foreigners. Stephen Harper will rally us to the cause.
You remember Stephen. He's the one who allowed the US to "render" at least to Canadians to Syria where they could be tortured by the CIA.
Last evening I returned from a week-long visit with our partners in the Philippines, a nation of 7,100 islands—7,101 at low tide. United Nations Human Rights Day, December 10, is already dawning there.
Introduced by the Revd. Cheri DiNovo (NDP - Parkdale-High Park), this private member's bill would amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to protect Ontarians from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
What is the most scary part of this is the admitted over riding protection of the Church over and above that of "the welfare of children and justice for victims".
Why does a "Christian" institution act diametrically opposite to what it preaches and what Jesus preached? What does this tell us about its true nature?
