Ezra Levant has been doing an excellent job of tracking the Alberta Human Rights Commission's disposition of the case of the Rev. Stephen Boissoin, most recently in this post. As Ezra points out, the AHRC has ordered Boissoin to apologize to the complainant in the case, Dr. Darren Lund. Lund is quoted in the Red Deer Advocate as saying "I certainly didn’t request an apology, so that was a bit of a surprise. I don’t see the value in an insincere apology."
In common with other well known HRC complainants, it appears Dr. Lund has trouble with certain aspects of the truth, like telling it, for example. His original complaint expressly asks the AHRC to force Boissoin's apology. The complaint can be found here.
The scent of a rat always gets the corgis going, so they were off on the trail of Dr. Lund before you could say "identifiable group." So who is Dr. Darren Lund?
He's a former high-school teacher and now an assistant professor at the University of Calgary. His homepage can be found here, along with a fetching photograph. In the homepage summary, it states that "His research, activism and teaching focuses on social justice issues in schools and communities."
[Editorial note: I always thought universities were for primarily for education, but apparently that now falls second to 'activism' in order of importance.]
Go read it all... you'll soon figure the good Dr. out. It's the standard human rights industry CV. A couple of highlights stood out for me, however. In the summer 2006 edition of the Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Dr. Lund wrote an article in which the title describes Alberta as "the Heartland of Hate." So much for his 'activism' against sterotyping.
The rest of his work is devoted to encouraging his 'social-justice' agenda in the classrooms of Alberta and the nation. Dressed up in the usual diarrhea-like verbage of his trade, what he's really all about is small l-liberal political indoctrination in the classroom.
The mere fact of the existence of such programs signifies what's wrong with Canada's education systems - never mind the fact that students don't have enough textbooks, or have crumbling schools - the $128,000 that Dr. Lund alone has received for his research over the last three years will ensure that by Gaia, they have social justice and the bloated, bureaucratic, self-important, tin-pot dictators he's educating to enforce it.
Not that Dr. Lund is in favour of just anyone having access to the classrooms of the nation to spread their views, mind you. Diversity is one thing, but you can't let everyone in. He spent a lot of time and effort last year trying to kill the Operation Christmas Child fundraising efforts in Alberta's schools, because, spirit-creator-Allah-God-Jehovah-Gaia-Vishnu forbid, they have a Christian connection. And after the whole sorry Human Rights Commission fiasco we know how Dr. Lund feels about Christians.
Diversity for everyone! Muzzle the Christian!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A Little Educashun, With Dr. Darren Lund
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Here's the pertinent part of the HRC complaint:
13. Dr. Lund requests the Panel provide an Order directing Mr. Boissoin to publish a full apology in the Red Deer Advocate within one month of this Panel’s decision. Mr. Boissoin is to apologize for submitting the article and for his views on homosexuality. This apology must address that Mr. Boissoin understands that the expression of his views were inappropriate and likely to expose persons or groups of persons to hatred or contempt.
Seems pretty clear to me.
I know what , lets wait for the Toronto Gay community that support the pride parade come forward and applogize for all the Little boys who were exposed to naked males flaunting their penis in public to get their jollies as if they are quasi-pedophiles.
Maybe Miller and Police Chief Blair can go public and say they are sorry for all these years they allowed Child-abuse by Pedophiles who snuck into the pride parade and exposed themselves to children
while not one Cop made an arrests , Miller and Blair ride in the parade and yet do squat to arrest pedophiles that exploit the parade by joining in with the guise of being gay and having a sexual preference to be naked in front of little boys.
Your turn Mr.Miller .......?
I don't know if this is true for Professor Lund, but my objection to Samaritan's Purse is not that it is Christian or run by Christians -- if someone's doing the work. that's wonderful. But I have read numerous reports that Samaritan's Purse requires beneficiaries of its charity to attend significant Christian proselytizing or even conversion. That seems problematic to me.
Disagree with you on almost every issue, but love your blog. Very clever and thought-provoking. And the corgis are adorable.
I have to disagree with Carole, at least on this post-- it isn't clever at all; it's just one-sided, emotionally-charged sarcasm, without a single salient logical argument. Remember it's a fallacy to discredit an idea by discrediting the person putting it forth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominim
Basically, no matter what you think of Dr. Lund, you have to consider his complaint on its merit, which is considerable.
What I find most amusing is that Boissoin's letter rails against homosexuality because, among other things, it "recruits" and has "paedophiles" in its membership. Perhaps Boissoin should consider that the same argument could be made against almost every religious organization?
I would normally be happy to sign my name and include contact information, but as Dr. Lund received and receives death threats for his beliefs, I will choose to remain partially anonymous.
I'm not sure which complaint you're referring to, Josh. If the Boissoin complaint then, to be clear, I in no way agree with or endorse the reverend's views. I just don't think the state should gag anyone - decent people can deal with the likes of Boissoin in the public discourse. The state should not be in the business of thought policing, period.
Dr. Lund's career is devoted to anti-religious prosetylising in Canadian classrooms, and your remarks about religion and pedophile are just as hateful and untrue as Boissoin's. You and Dr. Lund are no different from the man you profess to despise - you just have a different target.
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