Ted Byfield is an asshat

[Canadian Socialist]

Why, why do I read his crap? Why put myself through it? Read on if you want to raise your blood pressure.

Sun, June 26, 2005
Argument for voting no to marriage bill

By Ted Byfield -- Calgary Sun

Gay marriage will become a legal right in Canada before Parliament prorogues for the summer, Canadians were told last week, because the Liberal government will prolong the session to make sure the bill enacting it gets approval.

Those few Tory MPs favouring the bill, one of them Jim Prentice of Calgary, assure Christians that they need fear no unforeseen consequences from it.

Nothing in it will interfere with freedom of speech, they say, or with the rights of churches to refuse to marry gays, or the rights of Christian schools to teach the biblical injunctions against the practice of homosexuality, or the right of churches to read passages from Scripture condemning homosexual activity.

All these alarming possibilities, say the bill's supporters, are being raised by "the bigots" who oppose the bill.
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Ted_Byfield/2005/06/26/1104680.html

[Maple]

1. I dunno

why DO you read Ted Bygone? :D

[Canadian Socialist]

2. I think I read this crap

because it gets the ol' blood flowing. Also, I try to read as much as possible from all points of view. Not to get too self-analytical <heee>, but most of the time it just confirms my point of view. i.e. most of the right-wing are asshats.:puke:

[Spazito]

3. Ted Byfield is irrelevant except to 'the choir' located in

his little 'corner' of Alberta. He couldn't even get sell his rag, B.C. Report. I have seen him occasionally as a guest commentator on a few shows and he comes across as what he is, a bigoted idiot, imo.

[MrPrax]

8. Didn't AB Report fold as well...

I thought I heard Byfield lamenting that the Alberta Report folded -- some conspiracy of the gov't and the 'federal liberal Eastern magazine cartel' doing something-er other and keeping 'rednecks' in Alberta from buying a very tired, boring magazine.

I think these folks now congregate around the Ezra Levant's Western Standard--the Independent Voice of the New West!! Some of the same critters at Report, scribble for this 'exciting publication'

BTW, I put the 'same-sex' thing into the 'don't give a damn' drawer, but, whenever these mental munchkins start a holler'in' about the Sodomites...

I instinctively grab that 'squirrel-y' rifle and point, 'Same-sex or Death...you homophobic assholes'

LOL

[Lautremont]

4. Did you folk see that little ad in the Saturday Globe?

Some outraged pensioner in Halifax spent his food money for the month taking out an ad warning of the "dangers to certain parts of the human body" as a result of "certain homosexual practices." The conservative fascination with "certain homosexual practices" is always amusing.

[Canadian Socialist]

5. Do you have a link to that?

I would love to see what this idiot did.

[Lautremont]

6. It was just an ad, so I doubt it exists on the internets,

but if I still have the paper around, I'll dig it up and transcribe it for you. It's not very long, and definitely good for a larf.

[Lautremont]

9. Here we go - deranged Haligonain alert!

I've kept all weird punctuation intact. It's about an eighth of a page and runs as follows:


SAME SEX "MARRIAGE"
PARLIAMENT'S "FREE VOTE"?

THE MALE "GAY LIFESTYLE" sexual culture widely includes and endorses an act which the Canadian Medical ASSociation has ASSociated with increasing the risk of a certain part of the human body being "easily damaged".(Complete Home Medical Guide, 2001, Sex and Health, page 68)

This act is overwhelmingly rejected and disappoved of by married heterosexuals.

How can the CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS extend a "RIGHT" to male homo-sexual "marriage" under such circumstances?

The male gay community can have everything it needs for a productive life. It, however, must not be integrated into the hetero-sexual definition of marriage by Bill C-38.

HUGH J MACCAGNO


Then he gives his full address. Oh, poor addled Hugh.

[Canadian Socialist]

10. Thanks for that!

I think:wow: That is simply bizarre.

[Hand]

12. Hmm... not familiar...

I'm pretty well aware of the loudest racist/homophobe/general asshat letter writers in Halifax, but this guy's a new one on me. Ho hum... yer fifteen minutes are up, Hugh. Sorry dere, eh boyo?

:boring:

[elare]

7. Churches already refuse to perform marriages for some ...

Case in point: My husband was raised Catholic, I was raised Angelican. His family's church refused to marry us. The priest told him it had nothing to do with my religion, but he wouldn't marry us because "Your family doesn't give enough money to the church".

Saying that churches will be forced to perform gay marriages is a big load of bullshit, and pure fear-mongering.

[achtung_circus]

11. The Byfield clan are certifiable,

as is their premier mouthpiece, Dave Rutherford of a certain Calgary AM station. I used to listen to Rutherford solely because it would make my blood boil. He had Ted or Link or Ezra Levant on about once a week.

The "slippery slope" is their motto. From gay rights comes pedophilia and incest and bestiality.

I think it feel smarter to know that here were people whose thinking amounted to no more than random neuron collisions as their few brain cells rattled around in their primarily empty skulls. Their latest prophet



:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[iverglas]

13. I'm of an older generation

Link Byfield is an asshat.

;)

But then he did publish my picture on page one of his rag once ...