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Where will you spend Christmas?

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Because Linda Gibbons will spend it in jail. Lifesite News is asking people to help encourage her by sending a Christmas card. I’m going to do that.

Linda prayerfully and quietly witnesses in front of Ontario abortion clinics, in violation of an unjust “bubble zone” law.

I wasn’t around when the bubble zone laws were created. I believe they are unnecessary today and are an infringement on our freedoms. I have further heard that Linda Gibbons herself is a peaceful lady. (We might be less inclined to sympathize with an angry protestor, shouting women who go for abortions down. That wouldn’t change the facts of the case–that these laws are not just–but in any event, I’ve heard Linda is a sympathetic lady.)

So send her a card if you can. There’s rules (see link) on what she can and cannot receive in jail. What a world we live in.

Calling it like it is

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“Euthanasia is about killing, not the ‘right to die with dignity’“. So true. A piece by Ottawa’s own Brian Lilley.

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Brigitte likes this paragraph:

What Lalonde’s bill proposes to do is allow active euthanasia which requires a planned and purposeful act such as a doctor giving a patient a lethal injection. In the United States lethal injection has been challenged in court as a cruel and unusual punishment for death row inmates, here in Canada we have banned the death penalty as inhumane, too fraught with mistakes. Now Parliament is considering allowing the sick to be given what we find unacceptable for criminals.

Dead for a firmer behind

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What a sad, sad way to go:

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina–A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks.

Solange Magnano, a mother of twins who won the crown in 1994, died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday after three days in critical condition following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires.

Gluteoplasty involves placing implants in the buttocks to make them appear rounder.

I wish women would stop going under the knife to “fix” minor imperfections. I wish women would try to improve their appearance by eating well, sleeping enough, and exercising. I wish women would just stop obsessing over their bodies so much because you know what? The good guys out there don’t care exactly how perfectly round your butt appears to be. They’re dating a person, not a body part. Sure, they prefer a girl who looks good over one who doesn’t appear to spend more than 42 seconds a week looking after herself. But come on. Is non-medically-necessary cosmetic surgery really worth it?

Defending marriage

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I am not a fan of David Cameron. I find him way too squishy for my taste. But he’s right on this one:

“I think marriage is a good institution. I don’t need an opinion poll to tell me whether it is or is isn’t. That’s just what I think.”

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He told the Daily Mail: “Evidence shows marriage is a good institution which helps people stay together, and commit to each other.

“A society that values marriage is a good and strong society, that’s why we will recognise marriage in the tax system.”

No, that doesn’t mean everyone should get married. And yes, there are plenty of unmarried couples who are more committed to each other than many a married couple. But that’s a comment on people, not on institutions. Marriage is not the same as just living with someone (I know; I tried both). And it’s a good thing for a society when marriage is seen as an ideal to achieve through commitment and hard work, not just a boring piece of paper.

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