Brent Hawkes, the gay activist celebrity pastor from Toronto, has been charged with indecent assault and gross indecency.
The allegations are that Hawkes assaulted a boy in Nova Scotia back in the 1970s, who finally came forward.
Hawkes is the favourite clergyman of the far left, including Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne and Justin Trudeau.
Hawkes also led the funeral of former NDP leader Jack Layton.
I would have ignored this news until the trial, but then I saw this comment by Bob Rae, former NDP premier and Liberal MP and interim leader of the federal Liberals:
"Brent Hawkes has been a friend and inspiration to thousands of people, and that includes us - stay strong Brent and John, we're with you”
Seriously? Rae should know better — he’s a senior lawyer. In the first place, he knows how hard it is for victims of sexual assault to come forward.
Furthermore, Rae makes millions as a lawyer and advisor for Aboriginal groups, one of whose complaints is how Aboriginal children were treated in residential schools, including being molested by Christian clergy.
Can you imagine Rae’s reaction if some lawyer responded to a sexual assault charge against the Catholic Church by saying, "Stay strong, Catholic priest — your politics are more important than the laughable claims of some boy who was probably asking for it"?
on the East Coast Catholics fought Protestants. Religion has been at the source of much of the world’s violence. Christians had to revise the Bible because of all the violence. I understand the need for some to believe in a higher power but I’m not one of them. I’m an Atheist as my father before me. I won’t apologize for my beliefs to anyone.
Be that as it may – I might as well join in the fray.
The goat loving and wife beating islamics have a systemic and rampant child abuse love affair.
I have seen it myself in A’stan.
Google “bacha boy” or “chai boy” – it crosses into every islamic country.
At least Christians as a group do not approve of this and penalize those caught.
Of course it is not child abuse or rape if a muslim does it. It is in fact completely accepted within their society.
For that matter it does not seem to matter to the various special interest communities when the islamics toss homosexual men off of roof tops either.
I will repeat -
At least Christians as a group live under rule of law that do not approve of this and penalize those caught.
And yes – there are priests and ministers that needed to be caught.
Overall – they are not a systemic group with a love affair for child abuse.
So – rather than slinging mud how about asking this question….
Would you rather a Christian priest or minister as a neighbour (overall) or an islamic imam.
Your answer would tell me a lot.
This guy might not be guilty.
He might be guilty.
We simply have to wait and see what the courts decide.
In the meantime do not lose focus of the fact that 40 years is a long time and the truth might – in all honesty – never be known.
I have no particular contempt for Christians just the hipocracy . Hiding behind the veil of Christianity. In my experience some of the most dishonest were so called Christians. The jails are full of them.
By why Christians in particular? Do Christians commit a higher amount of pedophilic crimes than any other categorization of people that should warrant singling out the Christian as opposed to any other categorization of people? Well, the answer to that is no, they do not.
So why the distinction? It is there so as to point out an underlying contempt for Christians that is rooted in the unspoken misbelief that Christians present themselves as a morally superior people than other people, so therefore when they do not live up to this supposed higher standard, they are ridiculed. In other words, a hypocrite.
But the belief that Christians hold themselves up as a better people is erroneous. It is a misbelief from the non-Christian community. The central belief a Christian holds is that he/she is unable to not be evil, he/she is unable to not sin unless pulled out of the “muck” of sin by Jesus. The central understanding that a Christian holds is that he/she in not the one that is making himself/herself a better person, that it is all Gods’ doing through the work of the Holy Spirit. But non-Christians perceive this as Christian elevating themselves as morally superior when in fact the truth is precisely the opposite.
So the contemptuous phrase “Another Christian pervert!” is more an indication of the speaker’s misunderstanding of what a Christian is, and what Christians believes.
Now, having said that, if this person is guilty, he should pay the full price of the law and also needs to repent fully of his sin to God.
He might not be.
In the end it will be he said, he said.
Money will win.
Canada has always had a legal system and not a justice system.
Making money the usual victor.
Most folks do not ever think on that.
Protect the sodomites; they know not what they do.