January 7, 2008

Hypocritical Conservativism It’s not just for the USA anymore.

“I hate homosexuality,” says Balwant Singh Gill, a prominent leader in B.C.’s large Sikh community.
“Most Sikhs believe homosexuality is unnatural and you can’t produce kids through it. And, secondarily, no major religion allows it.”

Nothing surprising there. A typical “conservative” viewpoint. But wait-there’s more.

Illustrating his apparently fluid values in another way, Gill acknowledges he used to vote Liberal federally, but is switching to the Conservatives because he believes they’re tougher on terrorism.

At the same time, he votes provincially for the New Democratic Party because he believes everyone has a “moral duty” to pay taxes to care for the disadvantaged.

I’m having a hard time following this already. How does he keep up with himself at the polls?

Although Gill is adamantly against homosexuality, he thinks, like many Sikhs and unlike Christian conservatives, abortion is acceptable; an individual choice.

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And while Gill, a married father of four who owns a trucking company, is opposed to having babies outside marriage, he believes prostitution has to be an accepted fact of life.

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“You have to have two parents to take care of babies. It’s a problem that’s happening in our [Sikh] community. The father takes off and the mother is left to take care of the kids.”

Meanwhile, Gill thinks prostitution, since it seems to be in such high demand, is okay.

An MRI was done of Gill’s brain. pretzel Yep, that explains his insanely convoluted thinking.

Gill certainly doesn’t bring to mind our traditional perception of the liberal, amicable Canadian. But then again, he’s not a native Canadian. He and other immigrants are striving to change Canadian perceptions of what is right and wrong.

New immigrants are increasing the proportion of Canadians who are conservative about what is right and wrong — especially about family values and sex — and nowhere is that more true than in B.C., an Angus Reid poll suggests.

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Only eight per cent of poll respondents who describe themselves as “Canadian,” or native born, show up in the strict moralist category — compared to 19 per cent of self-described “others,” or foreign born.

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But imported moral conservativism is not the end of the story when it comes to ethical trends occurring because of the rapid arrival of foreign-born people to Canada: Immigrants also appear to more morally polarized than native-born Canadians.

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There are far fewer immigrants in the “Thoughtful Conservative” group (23 per cent) compared to native born (35 per cent).

“Thoughtful Conservative”. Isn’t that an oxymoron?

We can now rest a bit easier here in the USA. We are no longer the only ones who must suffer the slings and arrows of hypocritical conservative wingnuts who want to run our lives.
candle I will light a candle for Canada tonight.