SITCOM PROPHET

Sitcom prophet

March 29 2005

If you watched television in the 1960s, you probably remember the sitcom Get Smart. Comedian Don Adams played Maxwell Smart, bumbling but well-meaning  secret agent.

One of the high-tech gadgets  at Smart’s headquarters was ‘The Cone of Silence’: whenever Smart or his boss—“The Chief”—had ultra-secret information to impart, to prevent eavesdropping they retreated to a special room where ‘The Cone of Silence’ was lowered over them.

The problem was that within the Cone of Silence, nobody could hear anything; even Max and the Chief couldn’t hear each other.

Well, it was pretty funny, back then; but now, a very real Cone of Silence has begun to descend over Canada—at least whenever public discussion of homosexuality is concerned.

Human Rights Tribunals receive complaints alleging “harassment” by individuals who may have written Letters to the Editor critical of the homosexual agenda: their co-workers can complain that the letters make them feel “uncomfortable”—even if nothing was said to them, or even at their workplace!

Under such circumstances, the only way to be safe from persecution for religious or political beliefs would be to say and write nothing; such an imposition of silence is the very essence of fascism.

The problem with Canada’s ‘Cone of Silence’ over the issue of homosexuality is that, like the security device in Get Smart, the inevitable result is that no one can communicate anything—and even the truth gets silenced. But these facts are true, and must be said:

• homosexuality is a treatable illness.

• homosexuality is abnormal.

• homosexuality is extremely unhealthy, shortening life expectancy by decades.

• anything that encourages homosexuality is extremely bad public policy.

• the greatest kindness we can render to persons afflicted with homosexuality is to let them know that there are therapies that can return most of them to normal.

• heterosexuality is the norm for all creatures that reproduce by sex.

But none of those truths can even be uttered if we continue to allow a Cone of Silence, imposed by the ‘gay’ activists and their allies, to operate over Canada’s media and educational institutions.