Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Death Day in Canada

Ian Hunter has a brilliant piece on Morgentaler, Canada's Birhtday, and the Order of Canada at "A Symbol of Moral Decay" . He writes in the National Post (pg A15), "It would require macabre sarcasm to call this a "birthday" present; so, for this "deathday" present, let me briefly remark on three propositions." He concludes, "... do not honour men without honour."

Even as the church remembers Pontius Pilate every Sunday, and Judas at least once a year, their remembrance is subsumed under the triumph of the victim. So let it be to Morgentaler. One day perhaps in our fair land we will remember him, not as a hero, but as a horror.

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