Juno News - December 08, 2020The media sets their sights on people of faith
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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.
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Canadian media are utilizing their charter freedoms to actively attack and demonize religious and
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faithful Canadians who are choosing to exercise their charter rights. Recently we've seen state
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funded media and pundits alike attacking attendees of the Church of God near Steinbeck, Manitoba,
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who have chosen to keep their doors open at least to drive in church services in defiance of
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public health orders in Manitoba. In an interview between the post-millennial and chief apostle
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Ray Timmons of the Church of God, Timmons stated and I quote, while officials say it is not safe to
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have a drive-in parking lot service, they deem it acceptable to have a full parking lot at Walmart,
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Canadian Tire and other venues. While they say gatherings are unsafe due to the virus,
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they allow the sale of health-harming products like alcohol and tobacco. They preach concern for life,
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but abortion and physician-assisted suicide are supported, end of quote. Due to RCMP blockading
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the parking lot of the Church of God in Manitoba, individuals who are attending church services were
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forced onto the adjacent highway to finish their church service. In Manitoba, due to the lockdown
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restrictions by the Public Health Authority, individuals can only gather in groups of five
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or less and this includes drive-in church services or in vehicle meetings. And in Chilliwack, British
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Columbia, we saw state-funded media stake out a church, counting how many people went into and came
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out of the church building. The state-funded media journalist stated that there were 60 such individuals
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in a, what she determined, bold breach of public health orders of the province. Winnipeg Sun writer
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Scott Billick openly mocked church goers for defying health orders, even suggesting that in-vehicle
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services were dangerous. Billick posted a parody on Twitter of John 316, which stated, and I quote,
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For churches so loved the world, they gave their only parking lot, that whoever gathers there shall not follow
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the rules but put more strain on the healthcare system, COVID-316. Freelance writer and self-identifying
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socialist Nora Loretto also argued that churches are not essential, and believes that they, as well as
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funerals, should be forcefully shut down, as some do make profits. McLean's contributing editor, Andre Demise,
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has suggested that church goers such as those in Manitoba worship a false god, claiming that
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evangelical Christians worship a white Jesus, and that this puts them at danger. The Canadian media
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should be reminded that they are actively attacking Canadians' charter rights, and which are found in
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the very charter which allows the media to freely operate. This sets a dangerous precedence, because
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whatever rights or freedoms are on the chopping block, and no one seeks to protect or defend those rights
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or freedoms, well, we might as well line up all the other rights and freedoms in which Canadians
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currently possess, because it's only a matter of time before those rights and those freedoms are on
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the chopping block themselves, and all of Canadians suffer for it. For True North, I'm Matea Myrda.