{"id":1191,"date":"2016-04-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2016-04-01T14:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T18:05:56","slug":"legislators-p-e-i-and-lust-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Legislators, P.E.I. and Lust in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blessed Easter Octave Friday, which liturgically is a Sunday.\u00a0 There is an old adage about a ‘month of Sundays’, but the Catholic Church really does have a week of Sundays after the Solemnity of the Resurrection, the greatest feast in our calendar, the solemnity of solemnities, and the date from which all the rest of our liturgical year flows.\u00a0 So manducemus et bibamus, cras hodie Christus resurrexit, alleluia<\/em>!<\/p>\n

But the world rolls on in its seemingly inevitable slide towards insanity:\u00a0 Our vaunted Members of Parliament and Senators (the legislators, not the hockey team who cannot make the playoffs), those whose task seems either to make our lives ever-less free or to legislate immorality, just voted themselves a 1.8 and a 2.1 percent respective pay hike<\/a>.\u00a0 Lo and behold.\u00a0 To paraphrase Plato, who guards the purse strings of the guardians?<\/p>\n

The 338 MPs will see their salaries rise\u00a0to $170,400 from $167,400, while Trudeau \u2014 who gets another $170,400 as PM \u2014 now will make $340,800, an increase of $6,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

This raft of MP’s therefore, in salaries alone, costs us\u00a0 $57,595,200 per annum, and this does not take into account staffers, their, ahem, spending accounts, of which so much hay was made during the lamentable Mike Duffy trial, wherein they spent millions tracing the origins of a $64,000 cheque.\u00a0 Nor for that matter, their pensions, which are hefty and lifelong, even after a two-term ‘career’ as a Member of Parliament (Senators are for life).\u00a0 Winning a seat in parliament is even better than winning the lottery.<\/p>\n

The late great American columnist Joseph Sobran, r.i.p., lamented the existence of such a class of permanent legislators.\u00a0 In the early days, the parliamentary system relied upon those who had other occupations; they would take turns doing the ‘service’ of representing their fellow citizens, taking on the burden of authority.\u00a0 Now, parliamentarians’ work seems to consist of ‘discovering’ new laws either to make us less free and\/or less rich (raise the drinking age! ban smoking! ban fireplaces! bike helmets for all! carbon tax!) or to legislate immorality (homosexual ‘marriage’! sex-education in the classroom! transgender ‘rights’!).\u00a0 When was the last time you heard of a ‘good’ law being legislated?\u00a0 Even the good ones, in general, simply remove some of the bad effects of previous laws, and even that is rare.\u00a0 Given the inertia of our laws and customs, once something is put into law, it is nearly impossible to remove.\u00a0 And this inertia is almost always making us worse.<\/p>\n

Case in point:\u00a0 It was announced today that Prince Edward Island, named after the fourth son of King George III and the father of Queen Victoria, but which was originally named Ile Saint-Jean (the name was changed after British occupation in 1798), will now permit abortion<\/a> on its land so-far innocent of the blood of these littlest of martyrs. \u00a0How I wish this were an April Fool’s joke, but any joke is on us, and the victims. \u00a0This is what we pay our ‘legislating’ class to do.\u00a0 Saint Jean, prie pour nous<\/em>!<\/p>\n

And, in the classroom, a female teacher is in court today<\/a>, charged with multiple counts of pedophilia, sexual assault and child pornography, using ‘children’ as young as 12 to act out her sexual fantasies.\u00a0 It would be difficult to convince me that this has nothing to do with the explicit sexual material in the curriculum, as mandated by McGuinty and Wynne tag-team. \u00a0 Add to this that teachers are hired without regard for their own moral lives or views, and that these ‘children’, also unhinged from any real moral foundation in or out of the home, are already acting out their pubescent sexual fantasies with each other.\u00a0 It was only a matter of time before a teacher also lacking a moral compass would eventually join in. Now even a young female teacher in the ‘Catholic’ system<\/a> has been charged with sexual contact with a male student.\u00a0 Would you really want to put your child into the potential amoral miasma of our public schools?<\/p>\n

But all that is old is new again.\u00a0 Allegations are now surfacing of rampant child sexual abuse in Hollywood dating back decades<\/a>.\u00a0 Yes, I know that we should pity those who fall into such sexual sins for there, but for the grace of God, go I.\u00a0 But that is the very reason why the noonday devil of unbridled lust within each one of us must be caged and enclosed by strict laws and customs about sex. To let him loose is to invite havoc, mayhem and destruction.<\/p>\n

I will close with the words of the great Pope John Paul II from paragraph 97 of Evangelium Vitae<\/em>, which brings us back to abortion in P.E.I.:<\/p>\n

The trivialization of sexuality is among the principal factors which have led to contempt for new life. Only a true love is able to protect life. There can be no avoiding the duty to offer, especially to adolescents and young adults, an authentic <\/em>education in sexuality and in love<\/em>, an education which involves <\/em>training in chastity<\/em> as a virtue which fosters personal maturity and makes one capable of respecting the “spousal” meaning of the body.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amen to that.<\/p>\n

A final question: \u00a0When was the last time you heard the word ‘chastity’ mentioned in our legislature or our schools?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A blessed Easter Octave Friday, which liturgically is a Sunday.\u00a0 There is an old adage about a ‘month of Sundays’, but the Catholic Church really does have a week of Sundays after the Solemnity of the Resurrection, the greatest feast in our calendar, the solemnity of solemnities, and the date from which all the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10,9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}