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What the Lakehead University pro-life club accomplished

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Reporting live here from Thunder Bay. I gave a little talk to a dinner audience last night, here at the Thunder Bay pro-life conference. I mentioned at the dinner that freedom of speech and winning hearts and minds toward the pro-life cause go hand in hand. This is why it is a major strategy of the student unions to ban or limit the clubs. (The pro-life message, done well, is very compelling so the best thing to do is ensure it doesn’t get out there.) 

I mentioned that it takes a great deal of courage for pro-life students to stand up to the student union bullies. I’d like to really stress this: it takes more courage than you think. You are young, trying to get a degree, taking on an unpopular cause… it’s not outside the realm of the possible that some professor decides you shouldn’t pass. Or then there’s just the social climate in which you are living and breathing. Needless to say, back when I was a student, I didn’t have that courage and didn’t involve myself in this type of club activities. 

These guys have garnered a lot of mainstream media–simply because they were willing to be vocal. And that does everyone a service, and provides an example. 

As for the conference, I only arrived close to the end of the day yesterday, and things are just starting today. On that note, I’m off to get ready for the day.

Courageous Canadian students

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A column in today’s Citizen in which ProWomanProLife is mentioned:  

The spirit of the thing is renewed, in Canada today, by, for example, Andrea Mrozek and the girls at the Ottawa website, ProWomanProLife. Just as strident feminism renews itself, by finding a new generation of embittered young women and confused men, attracted to the task of infiltrating our legal and political bureaucracies, so also we find a new generation of women determined to resist them, and to defend common sense with unflappable courage.

But thankfully, there are many more like us at PWPL. I can say I met many great students–both male and female, from New Brunswick all the way to British Columbia this weekend, speaking at UofT and at the National Campus Life Network conference–very courageous, very cool people, working in an environment far more difficult than where I find myself, and doing it at an age where I didn’t give serious issues a serious thought. It’s good to see. (And one of them has put one of the presentations I made on YouTube: should you have absolutely nothing to do, come oh say, mid-winter, feel free to look it up.)

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6gvvbpJ5g]

Hell hath no fury like a fool scorned

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Recall how Lakehead had their club status denied.

Now the Lakehead Student Union has decided they want a pro-life/pro-choice debate. March 4 is the date. The Lakehead Life club invited Jojo Ruba to speak. 

If they were denied status before, they should now be preparing for a full excommunication.

You see, Jojo is responsible for the whole kerfuffle at Carleton University in 2006, when the Carleton student union banned the pro-life club there. That incident directly followed his debate with Planned Parenthood at Carleton University.

I happened to see him in action against the two (yes-two) ladies from Planned Parenthood. Apparently they brought each for moral support, which would have been very much needed because Jojo singlehandedly cleaned their clocks.

Pro-choice people to debate are hard to come by. I understand why they are wary. Flaky arguments that skirt the issue is what I heard when I attended the 2006 Carleton debate.

Jojo is respectful, kind, well-informed, logical and good. He’s excellent.

I hope Lakehead University holds this debate. I’m just saying-the pro-life club should prepare themselves for the fallout, because Mr. Ruba is really good. And the pro-choice side in the 2006 debate was really weak.

No one likes to be made the fool and apparently angry fools do foolish things.

Lakehead and life

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  So apparently the students at Lakehead University could have had a pro-life club, they just can’t

  1. advertise
  2. educate
  3. and they have to apply for express permission to use their own university’s logo

Next thing you know they might want to hold an event. Clearly, this club is demanding.

I’m not even going to get into the delicious irony of a university that forbids education from student clubs. A new motto perhaps? “Lakehead University–no learning, now or ever”

I’ll keep brainstorming…

So much to ban, so little time…

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On January 10, the Lakehead University student union denied the pro-life club official status.

Generally speaking, when the anti-democratic, myopic nitwits at Canadian university student unions go about banning pro-life clubs, as they have done at Carleton University and at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia already, they do so on the grounds that the pro-life view is hateful toward women. You are either pro-life OR pro-woman, and ne’er the two views shall meet. I wrote about this flawed thinking for the Ottawa Citizen at the time of the Carleton “debate.”

If I were a student at Lakehead I’d get every student to start their own club. A chess club, a new age mysticism club, a Muslim club, a doily crocheting club and yes, of course, a womyn’s club-all with the express mandate to do nothing but discuss the theology of the body and watch abortion videos, whilst doing other club activities. Which club would the student union ban first? Would they have the tenacity to ban the Muslim pro-lifers? Or would they target the chess players first, which would allow the chess players to rightly assert they have been unfairly discriminated against. It could take months to sort out the banning order. But it would be good preparation for their first jobs at human rights tribunals.

[Side note: Indoctrinate U is playing in Ottawa on February 18.]

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