Rights These Days Are Not Created Equal

Just check out the recent "human rights" rulings: A Christian pastor has no rights to criticize homosexual lifestyle. Similarly, a healthcare worker who happens to be a conservative Christian, has no right to distribute flyers that denounce homosexual lifestyle as biologically abnormal and unhealthy and that contain a photocopy of a newspaper ad such as "man seeking boys ... age not so relevant". That is punishable by a hefty fine, a court-ordered apology and a lifetime ban on criticizing homosexual lifestyle.

But a radical Muslim "imam" which openly calls for extermination of homosexuals - has his freedom of speech unabated. The Canadian "human rights" commission refused to hear a complaint against his viciously bigoted book which spreads hatred not just against homosexuals but also against women, Jews, Christians, Hindus and many other groups. Have Muslims become exempt from section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act? Or is it just that our brave CHRC jackboots prefer not to mess with Islam?

Ironically, the day the news came out, Mark Steyn Binks Webelf blogger published this "rights points scale" on Free Mark Steyn blog:

REMEMBER: all ‘rights’ these days are not created equal. White people get 0; men get -50; women get +10; gays get +20; Christians -25, other religions +25; the handicapped points vary.. for eugenical liberals, it’s -5, for old-fashioned liberals, it’s+5; for racist blacks or aboriginals or other minorities, it’s a +20; eco-greenies get +10; progressive utopians get +50, but for conservative anythings, it’s -50 or more, despite other categories. So the proverbial lesbian black-aboriginal racist green paraplegic utopian, it’s a sweet +140 of rights. Some white conservative Christian guy? -125 rights points: obviously much less human or deserving. Remember that: it’s diversity, and tolerance!

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Now everyone can calculate whether he's among the "more equals" or among the "less equals". And guess what - that's probably the only way to explain why rights of a homosexual activist outweigh the rights of a Christian pastor or those of a conservative nurse, but at the same time, right of a Muslim "imam" outweigh the rights of a homosexual activist.

See for yourself: a homosexual activists only earns +20 rights points. A homosexual female would earn +30. That's more than enough to beat a Christian conservative man (-125 rights points) but not enough to outweigh a Muslim who gets at least +45 points (25 for being "other religion" and 20 for being a minority). Plus there might be some special points for being Muslim (most likely - at least 100 if not more, so that Muslims could outweigh progressive utopians) which Mark Steyn simply forgot to mention.

So, how does it feel to be less equal?