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Joel Kontinen
“There is a healthy and an unhealthy love of animals: and the nearest
definition of the difference is that the unhealthy love of animals is serious,”
G.K. Chesterton wrote in his 1920 book of essays The Uses of
Diversity. “I am quite prepared to love a rhinoceros, with reasonable
precautions: he is, doubtless, a delightful father to the young rhinoceroses.
But I will not promise not to laugh at a rhinoceros … I will not worship an
animal. That is, I will not take an animal quite seriously: and I know why.”
Chesterton’s views should be taken in the
Controversy of animals versus humans.
In Canada, you can have a baby butchered in the womb on her due date
without legal penalty, but to smash an eagle’s egg will bring down the full
force of the law. Animal rights activists, including PETA, regularly compare
chicken farms to Auschwitz (I’ve debated them on this subject myself) while
insisting that abortion is just fine. And while Trudeau pours billions into
funding feticide overseas, the Jane Goodall Act to protect great apes and
elephants in captivity in Canada and ban the import of ivory and hunting
trophies has passed second reading.
There is nothing wrong with loving animals. There is
something profoundly wrong with loving them more than our own children. It is
good to closely examine the conditions of creatures in captivity. It is
disturbing that we do so while news of babies dying after abortions is
faithfully recorded in government statistics and ignored by those tasked with
protecting the weak and vulnerable. We kill babies in this country. If we fail
to kill them and they make it out of the magical birth canal where human rights are mysteriously conferred, sometimes we just let
them die. Hundreds of them. Probably more. But nobody cares. We need a Jane
Goodall Act for pre-born children— and legislators willing to expose what is
happening, and willing to defend them.
Source:
Van Maren, Jonathon, 2020. Canada to protect unborn chimps in ‘Jane Goodall Act’ while ignoring unborn humans targeted for abortion. Life Site News 19 November
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