Housewives' advocacy group mad at Canadian Foreign Minister speaking out about about Gay Rights

John Baird

REAL Women of Canada  is essentially a housewives' advocacy group that's view of women appears to have been frozen in time somewhere around 1958. The group's spokeswoman is upset that Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird is an outspoken advocate for Gay Rights abroad.

Gays face persecution in countries like Iran and most of the Muslim Middle East as well as in Uganda and Russia. That persecution often comes in the form of physical violence and imprisonment and torture.

I met John Baird a couple of years ago at the Munk Debates; he's a very decent guy. Under Baird's leadership, Canada has become a leader in global human rights advocacy. But for REAL Women, some humans aren't particularly important.

One of the commonly stated objections I've noted from some hard-core social conservatives to Baird's forthright condemnation of  mistreatment of Gays in Russia is that "we have no right to tell another country what is should do within its own borders."

Funnily, I've never heard a conservative of any sort make the same complaint when Baird (very commendably)  has forcefully spoken out about the mistreatment of Christians in Muslim countries including Pakistan and Egypt.

This is what REAL Women want to do, 

 and those damn Gays aren't going to pay for them to do it!

Many, many dear friends of mine are conservatives.  This attention-seeking ploy by REAL Women is something they should shun like the plague. REAL Women's attack on Baird makes them look every bit the caricature of the narrow-minded, hypocritical bigots that the far left would like to deceitfully tar everyone who thinks a 98% tax rate is unreasonable.

From the perspective of REAL Women, it's understandable they are distraught about homosexuals and Gay Rights. After all, if men can marry each other, who is going to pay for REAL Women to sit around the house eating bon bons and popping out children?

Looks like REAL Women will have to up their game and make sure they can pull in husbands who can keep them in the style to which they hope to become accustomed. Or they could stop being idiots and get a job.

Whatever...

Uganda pushing for Anti-Homosexuality Bill after confrontation with Canada's Foreign Minister Baird

BY NATASHA BARSOTTI — The speaker of Uganda's parliament has called for a vote on MP David Bahati's "anti-homosexuality" bill, which she supports, upon returning to Uganda after a heated exchange with John Baird, Canada's foreign affairs minister. Baird criticized the legislation at the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference held in Quebec City.    

According to a report in The Advocate, Rebecca Kadaga told a crowd gathered at Entebbe airport that she "will not accept to be intimidated or to be directed by any government in the world because we are independent. I will now instruct the chair of the Committee of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to quickly bring the report of the anti-homosexuality bill so that we can discuss it and so that Uganda can take a position."

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Speaking truth to scumbags - Foreign Minister Baird lambastes Iran, Uganda and Syria for Human Rights abuses

QUEBEC - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird abandoned host-country niceties Monday as he levelled a blistering attack against the human rights records of Iran, Syria and Uganda before some 1,400 international parliamentarians gathered for the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Quebec.   

..Baird also took on the Ugandan government again for its treatment of gays and lesbians. He mentioned the case of a young activist who was recently beaten to death.    

The criticism didn't sit well with the speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, who asked for the opportunity to respond. She spoke of Baird's "arrogance" and "ignorance" and demanded an apology.   

"If homosexuality is a value for the Canadian people, that's not a problem for us, that's it's issue, but one shouldn't force Ugandans to accept homosexuality because we're not Canadian citizens," Kadaga said to applause from the floor. 

..Addressing 1,400 lawmakers at the gathering in Quebec City, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said Bahais and Christians in Iran were “consistently threatened with death and torture, simply for believing.”
He also said “the evil regime in Iran... remains the most significant threat to global peace and security,” accusing Tehran of fomenting hatred against the Jewish people and supporting terrorist groups.