Juno News - The media sets their sights on people of faith

The Canadian media are utilizing their charter freedoms to actively attack and demonize religious and faithful Canadians who are choosing to exercise their charter rights. Canadian media should be reminded that they are actively attacking Canadians' charter rights, and which are found in the very charter which allows the media to freely operate.

00:00:00.000 Canadian media are utilizing their charter freedoms to actively attack and demonize religious and

00:00:11.120 faithful Canadians who are choosing to exercise their charter rights. Recently we've seen state

00:00:16.960 funded media and pundits alike attacking attendees of the Church of God near Steinbeck, Manitoba,

00:00:23.280 who have chosen to keep their doors open at least to drive in church services in defiance of

00:00:29.680 public health orders in Manitoba. In an interview between the post-millennial and chief apostle

00:00:35.760 Ray Timmons of the Church of God, Timmons stated and I quote, while officials say it is not safe to

00:00:42.720 have a drive-in parking lot service, they deem it acceptable to have a full parking lot at Walmart,

00:00:49.120 Canadian Tire and other venues. While they say gatherings are unsafe due to the virus,

00:00:54.560 they allow the sale of health-harming products like alcohol and tobacco. They preach concern for life,

00:01:01.120 but abortion and physician-assisted suicide are supported, end of quote. Due to RCMP blockading

00:01:07.840 the parking lot of the Church of God in Manitoba, individuals who are attending church services were

00:01:13.120 forced onto the adjacent highway to finish their church service. In Manitoba, due to the lockdown

00:01:20.240 restrictions by the Public Health Authority, individuals can only gather in groups of five

00:01:26.240 or less and this includes drive-in church services or in vehicle meetings. And in Chilliwack, British

00:01:33.120 Columbia, we saw state-funded media stake out a church, counting how many people went into and came

00:01:39.680 out of the church building. The state-funded media journalist stated that there were 60 such individuals

00:01:46.080 in a, what she determined, bold breach of public health orders of the province. Winnipeg Sun writer

00:01:52.160 Scott Billick openly mocked church goers for defying health orders, even suggesting that in-vehicle

00:01:58.000 services were dangerous. Billick posted a parody on Twitter of John 316, which stated, and I quote,

00:02:05.760 For churches so loved the world, they gave their only parking lot, that whoever gathers there shall not follow

00:02:11.040 the rules but put more strain on the healthcare system, COVID-316. Freelance writer and self-identifying

00:02:18.800 socialist Nora Loretto also argued that churches are not essential, and believes that they, as well as

00:02:25.680 funerals, should be forcefully shut down, as some do make profits. McLean's contributing editor, Andre Demise,

00:02:34.400 has suggested that church goers such as those in Manitoba worship a false god, claiming that

00:02:40.320 evangelical Christians worship a white Jesus, and that this puts them at danger. The Canadian media

00:02:47.600 should be reminded that they are actively attacking Canadians' charter rights, and which are found in

00:02:52.960 the very charter which allows the media to freely operate. This sets a dangerous precedence, because

00:03:00.080 whatever rights or freedoms are on the chopping block, and no one seeks to protect or defend those rights

00:03:05.920 or freedoms, well, we might as well line up all the other rights and freedoms in which Canadians

00:03:10.800 currently possess, because it's only a matter of time before those rights and those freedoms are on

00:03:17.520 the chopping block themselves, and all of Canadians suffer for it. For True North, I'm Matea Myrda.

Juno News - December 08, 2020

The media sets their sights on people of faith

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