Late last year, Dr. Jordan Peterson sat down with the
Scottish Catholic Observer for a wide-ranging
discussion on the culture wars raging across the West. When the interviewer brought up the censorship increasingly inflicted on pro-life groups in Europe, Peterson was unequivocal: "That's just beyond belief to me, whether you are pro-life or pro-choice.
If you think the pro-life voice should be silenced there is something seriously wrong with you. I don't care what you say about the abortion debate, there is something to be said on both sides at minimum so to stile that debate is part of this totalitarian leftism that I think is reprehensible and dangerous."
What I found most interesting were Peterson's comments about the debates on sex education currently taking place across Canada and other jurisdictions throughout the West. One of the reasons these debates generate so much heat is due to the fact that we no longer possess any cultural consensus on sexuality, and thus there is virtually no way to implement state-sanctioned sex education without alienating several groups of people who will strongly disagree. LGBT activists are simply never going to agree with Christians, Sikhs, Orthodox Jews, or Muslims on sexuality, and when they claim the right to teach their ideology to other people's children, backlash is inevitable and necessary.
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I think we are probably near the point where the state should get out children's sex education," Peterson noted, "
because there is no cultural consent as to what it should be, so I think that should devolve back to the family." For obvious reasons, I believe that
the only viable solution to this cultural chasm that preserves parental rights and freedom of religion is to do precisely what Peterson says, and I'm glad to hear that he holds this position and is willing to articulate it publicly.
Comment: Meanwhile Macron, always eager for a photo opportunity, and likely oblivious to what he's actually promoting, is snapped holding up a t-shirt that represents the ever present police brutality at France's protests - the character is missing an eye because France's repressive security forces have now become infamous for maiming numerous protesters: See also: