This is sloppy.
In April of this year an organization which provides care for the disabled in Ontario lost a Human Rights employment tribunal case.
Fast forward to Catholic Insight Magazine which had a complaint before the Canadian Human Rights Commission dropped in July of this year.
background here
They decided to write about Christian Horizons decision to appeal in their current edition, expressing common cause and a shared soapbox.
However, this is what Catholic Insight originally wrote:
The OHRC’s Jewish adjudicator, Michael Gottheil, referred often in his ruling to the principle of “balancing competing rights,” but he decided that CH had no religious rights because it was not involved in just serving the interests of its Evangelical religious adherents.
This is what it was changed to after a former writer alerted them:
The OHRC’s anti-Christian atheist adjudicator, Michael Gottheil, referred often in his ruling to the principle of “balancing competing rights,” but he decided that CH had no religious rights because it was not involved in just serving the interests of its Evangelical religious adherents. “The primary object and mission of Christian Horizons is to provide care and support for individuals who have developmental disabilities, without regard to their creed,” he wrote. “Christian Horizons is not a religious institution whose purpose is to ‘form the hearts and minds’ of its residents in the ways of faith of the organization.”
BigCityLib has the screenshot.
Catholic Insight took one foot out of their mouth and put the other right back in. They don’t know what beliefs the adjudicator holds. His beliefs whatever they may be are irrelevant. They don’t know if he is Jewish (which in this context read - slur) so they call him an atheist which is just another slur.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Anyone following reading this article has to get past churlish, juvenile name calling and substance is lost.
Catholic Insight takes 12 thousand dollars a year in subsidies.
Christian Horizons takes 75 million dollars a year.
It is not the fault of Christian Horizons that Catholic Insight chooses to slur and embarrass.
Taxpayers have every right when they see this kind of editorial stupidity and willful bigotry to complain to Heritage Canada who hands out the funds to Catholic Insight. BigCityLib posts who to contact.
Kathy Shaidle is partially correct, on this point she can find common ground with those she calls liberal fascists. In her email to editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk she says:
You know I’m on your side, right?
But I have to ask: Why the gratuitous adjective “Jewish” in this important article?
Surely you realize how many Jewish Canadians, like Ezra Levant, have taken up your cause, and that of Christian Horizons.
Surely the HRC’s overweening ‘liberal fascism’ — which embraces anti-Christianity in general and anti-Catholicism in particular — is really what is at work there.
I would dearly love to post your announcement that Christian Horizon is appealing that HRC decision, but neither I nor my thousands of readers care about who is Jewish and who isn’t over at the HRC.
Frankly, it would do the cause we all embrace more harm than good for me to expose that strange sentence to a wider audience.
I hope your staff writers will reconsider that unwise choice of words.
Catholic Insight listened and chose other unwise ones.
BigCityLib is also correct (and these two bloggers are as far apart politically as people can be).
Stay classy, Catholic Insight: Damien Penny
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It seems to me that in the change from “Jewish” to “anti-Christian atheist”, it is the term “anti-Christian” that is more telling.
My thesaurus offers the synonym “broad-minded” for the
word “Catholic”. Yet, I believe that the magazine Catholic
Insight is less than broad-minded when it writes its
articles.
I just wonder why the Church–as a body corporate–doesn’t
tell the magazine to stop using such a misleading word and
bringing shame to the Church.
I can’t believe some of the writing in that periodical.
Compared to periodicals of other churches, I find it a pandering
and propagandistic work–for want of a better word.
Perhaps it needs to reorganise itself and bring in a broader
spectrum of contributors and also try to keep opinion out
of reportage.
Until then, it’s not worth the read.
Torontonian: How would you compare it with Bill Donohue’s Catholic League?