Silencing of Christian teachers has begun - Lesbian witch hunt?
A veteran teacher at an Edmonton Catholic
school appears to be the victim of a vicious smear job. Albert Felicitas, who
has been a teacher for 32 years and received what he called “glowing
endorsements” from students in the past, has now been accused of making
“anti-gay” comments as well as pushing his “hatred of abortion.”
The accusations have bewildered former
students such as 21-year-old Marianne Madrazo, who remembered him “teaching
that the Catholic church does not accept the act of homosexuality and that
it is a sin, but felt he was accepting of all his students.” So in other words,
teaching the orthodox Christian view of sexuality in a religion class. His
accusers, however, are waxing creative in their accusations, claiming that
Felicitas has made the following statements:
That homosexuals are “incapable of love” and
that they “do not deserve love.” And that homosexuals cannot reproduce. (The
fact that two men or two women cannot naturally reproduce children, of course,
is a fact. This shouldn’t be controversial.)
Three students claim that Felicitas said that,
“if women who are raped have enough faith in God, a “protective biological
shield” will keep them from getting pregnant. But if a woman did get
pregnant, it was a sign she was actually amenable to intercourse.”
Felicitas denies the accusations outright,
pointing out that everyone is capable and deserving of love and that to
insinuate that women are ever “amenable to rape” would be a “crazy thing to
say, and he did not say it.” Everything he has said, Felicitas noted, has been
taken out of context (and it appears intentionally so.) “Teaching religion, if
you really want to teach it properly, it’s risky,” he said. “I’d rather teach
math…”
There are a few things here that should
immediately catch our attention.
First of all, the fact that Felicitas refused
to “repent” for anything, as was reported, gives credibility to his
protestations that he did not, in fact, say any of the things he was accused
of, and the things that he did say are being intentionally extracted from their
context.
Second, even the language used by the Edmonton Journal denotes
an ideologically-driven witch-hunt:
They call him “unrepentant.” If Felicitas
will not recant the positions that today’s secular religion deems heretical, he
will be punished.
Third, it is worth noting that the complaints
were lodged by a lesbian couple, who would take offense to the traditional
Christian view for obvious reasons. The article features a photo of two smiling
students with their two moms, the accusers of the veteran teacher. Although it
was this couple who was demanding that Felicitas be silenced while posturing as
victims, one of them informed the Edmonton
Journal, with dripping contempt, that she feels sorry for him: “To
honestly go through life that narrow-minded, I feel sorry for him.”
Fourth, and perhaps most importantly,
Felicitas “says school authorities have asked him to stay away from school for
his ‘own personal safety.’” Interesting, isn’t? The supposed victimizer here, a
man who is actually the one being persecuted for, as he plaintively pointed
out, “teaching the curriculum,” has to stay away from the school for his “own
personal safety.” This is what we call “cry-bullying”—pretend
you’ve been victimized by the words or views of another, but use your
fictitious victimhood as a cudgel to silence your opponent. This has, of
course, proven wildly popular on university campuses across the continent.
I expect we’ll see a lot more of this in the
years or even months to come. As Christian orthodoxy is increasingly seen as
hateful and expressions thereof to be hate speech by the cultural elites and an
increasingly large percentage of the population, the silencing of those who
seek to articulate the tenets of Christianity will only pick up speed. Teachers
like Felicitas are being caught off-guard due to the sheer swiftness with which
our culture’s moral reversal has taken place, and victimizers posturing as
victims have proven to be incredibly effective. Unfortunately, this is not the
end. This is, it seems, just the beginning.
