New Governor General is Anglican

Aw, yes. It is grand that a church, which stays silent to the role of "christians" in the state of aboriginal status in this nation, waxes eloquent on the appointment of another good Anglican who is also a "lawyer" and a "constitutional expert".

It is grand that another religious icon is promoted, reportedly, by referencing the grand Globe and Mail article which this religious rag references, because none of the "aboriginal candidates" met another good "christian" Stephen Harper's criteria of "being bilingual".

Aw, the tradtionalists of discriminating religion and language will continue to rule what is right in this nation?

May some "god" being this nation back to its base promises, first violated in our treaties with people who did not speak French or English or bow to the beatings of even rich Anglicans. And then in a constitution that promised no discriminating behaviours after the harsh lessons bought in Canadian blood on European soils to 1945.

But, after attending this "Anglican" spectre of tradtion for a short while in the mid 1980's, why am I not surprised that this richless rag of moral behaviour brags about a promotion of one of its own and stays silent to the obvious signals that come from traditions which arose.

Even after Canada promised these dicriminations would end, by signing onto an international law in 1948. And then bringing home a "constitution" which made us all "equals before and under the law".

Despite the message of the icon which they bow to every Sunday that we are all equals despite the labels of Samaritan religious rites or French or English language, those on high will use discrimination to advance the farce that those who govern us know what moral and legal duty really compels.

"Christian" churches should not ponder their flagging memberships when this idiocy is promoted as "democracy". Despite the stark lessons to 1945 which even our "constitutional experts" ignore.

Simply because their "god" gives them prestige and then they use their positions to advance immoral and illegal powers.

Because, some say, their "god" compels this.

How interesting! Can we find out what parish he belongs to and when he was last seen there?

Hey Don, bitter much about the whole situation? For those of us who don't have a clue what you are talking about, why not fill us in on what supposedly happened in 1945, a date which you keep referring back to.

You are obviously bitter that an aboriginal was not picked for this position. Get over it. Not everything in life revolves around giving aboriginals every single thing they demand.

According to an article in LifeSite News, Johnston served on some of McGuinty's committees on reproduction and fertility etc. Johnston favours same sex adoptions and said that" single men must have access to donor eggs and gestational carriers." in order to build families.
I thought that natural law and Mother Nature were supposed to build families.
See the websites LIfeSite News and www.freenorthamerica.ca

In response to Mr. Pratt:

"Aboriginal" Lawrence Martin, and others from among that race from my now home town of Nipigon, went first to Europe to expose the sins from discriminations of religion, race and partisan affiliation. These sins were enabled, in Europe, by the alignment of like- minded partisans who then assigned those aligned with them into every position of governance and justice which they could. "Religious" people stayed silent to these "sins".
Mr. Lawrence Martin, and others, including my simple farming uncle from Southern Ontario, returned from the blood of Europe to the promise of "Never Again". Lawrence Martin returned to Korea to protect the legal promise, signed in the UN in 1948 to end all of this.
"Aboriginals", like Mr. Martin, then returned to this nation after defending the promised principles of "equality". I sat in rooms with Mr. Martin after 1996. I watched Mr. Martin stand at war memorials until he died two years ago. I listened to the "aboriginal" stories of sins of exclusion, blatant racism and the beating of their children into rooms of "education" ran by our churches.
In 2002, as I was forced to become a "lawyer" to protect my own constitutional rights in a nation where my father's generation prepared to die for the principle of equivalency of all people, I began to petition your church's "journal" of the day. I asked this church, whose reverends once asked me to become a member, to educate themselves to how our nation's legal and democratic institutions had been corrupted by elitist lawyers, of the likes of Mr. Johnston.
Ironically, the "Anglican Church" became the first "moral institution" which blocked my e-mails requesting consideration of these deep issues.
Mr. Pratt tells me to "get over it". I say back, "get educated" to even the role of the high and pretentiously "moral" to their failures to stand against the moral, and illegal, decay into our institutions of democracy.
I am not going to waste my time re-writing what I said at the Maclean's website in response to Andrew Coyne's observations on why he does not find Mr. Johnston's appointment a scandal. Mr. Coyne, a journalist of deep pockets, cannot even get the political affiliations of this newest GG right. But this is the standard of "journalism" in our nation.
Why should even "Anglicans" be concerned about all of the back room shenanigans which they stick their heads in the sand over issues like this GG appointment?
It is because, when men like Pratt order us to "get over it", then standards of discriminating behaviour are allowed to prevail. The subsequent crowing by "the religious" elitist becomes the highest of hypocrisies.
But, should we be surprised by any of this arrogance? Not really. After all, the parable from Christ's time became that those who dared to call the lawyers, the politicians and the religious teachers of the day the biggest of hypocrites were quickly dismissed, if not crucified.
"Get over it"? I say back, "get educated to the whole story". Mr. Johnston's appointment is indeed a scandal. The final chapter why this is, from my pending book Just Business, will be posted at the Final Chapter button at http://justbusinessthebook.com in the next couple of days.
Until you are educated, you enter the same realm of racism which Mr. Pratt uses to justify an appointment that carries the incipient rot to a history that was to end in 1948. And did not because of, yes, even religious elitism.

Don MacAlpine of Nipigon, Ontario Canada ... Oh, and for Terence Moore of Winnipeg ... what does it matter what parish I or any person of this nation is from? When is the last time Christ appeared in person in your church? Or, would you become like the Pharisees and condemn on the basis of how many coins were not dropped into the church's coffers weekly?
I will "get over it" when my nation returns to being a land of justice and a world free in spirit, not servant to the elitist of even deep religious labelling which Christ himself condemned.