Abortion is a ‘legal right’: Hamilton Catholic chaplain running for Trudeau’s Liberals
Amidst calls for her termination, the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board is standing behind a Catholic chaplain who is running for the pro-abortion Liberal Party of Canada in the next federal election and who says she opposes legal protections for the unborn.
Filomena Tassi is a salaried “chaplaincy leader” at Bishop Tonnos High School in Ancaster, just west of Hamilton, who has just won the Liberal nomination for the riding of Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas.
Tassi says she opposes the “criminalization” of abortion but claims to be pro-life. She says there’s no conflict between her “pro-life” views and her party’s requirement that she support abortion in the House of Commons. Pat Daly, the chairman of her school board, agrees with her.
But Jeff Gunnarson of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews, “They should fire her. And the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton should say that any Catholic candidate should adhere to Catholic moral teaching on abortion.”
Gunnarson characterized Tassi’s comments to journalists as “doublespeak.” “We’ve heard it coming from several candidates. It looks like they are repeating a line the party is feeding them,” he said.
While Tassi did not return several calls from LifeSiteNews, she is reported by theHamilton Spectator as saying that “my personal view is that I'm pro-life” and also, “for-life."
As for Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau’s requirement that all Liberal candidates must support abortion-on-demand, she says the issue is not likely to come up, given that the Conservative government is opposed to changing status quo and the other parties all support it. But how would she vote on a pro-life private members’ bill?
“I'm not for criminalization, but you know what? You’ve got to see that [the bill],” she told the Spectator. “I understand and accept the fact that there is a legal right for a woman to have an abortion. … I'm doing nothing to touch this. ... It's a decided matter. The courts decided what it is. ... No one wants to have an abortion. They do it because of the ends that they are trying to achieve. I am sensitive to the person.”
"I've talked to girls who have had abortions. I haven't helped them have abortions, but I look at the person. I support the person and I do whatever I can to help that person,” she added.
For his part, Trudeau told the CBC that Tassi and all other candidates have been thoroughly vetted on the abortion issue and agreed to support the party’s pro-abortion position in Parliament.
The vetting process is "very rigorous and very clear," he said, and Tassi agreed to vote pro-abortion. "That's how she became a candidate.”
When challenged with Trudeau’s statement, Tassi said, “The question is what exactly, what is the interpretation of what is being said. What does pro-choice mean, is what I would say to you. This is not clear enough to be specific to what we are talking about.”
Comments Gunnarson: “She wants to have her cake and eat it. She wants to keep her job in case she doesn’t get elected.”
Gunnarson added that as a pro-life politician it would be Tassi’s duty to try to change bad laws. “Tassi says the law of the land is that women have a right to abortion but they don’t. There is no law in Canada at all, and the courts have said that Parliament could make a law.”
Gunnarson said that for Tassi to stand for the Liberals, knowing their pro-abortion position conflicts with the teachings of the Catholic Church and of the Catholic school where she works, sends the wrong message to her students. “It tells them that you should park your Catholic faith when you get to the public square,” he said.
But Pat Daly, the chairman of the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic School Board, told LifeSiteNews he’s fine with Tassi because, “she says she’s pro-life all the way. She told me that when I was visiting her school last week and she’s told the media that. That’s the lesson we want our students to take.”
What about the Liberal Party requirement she support abortion in Parliament? “Read her comments” to the Spectator, he advised.
Teresa Pierre, president of Parents as First Educators, backed Gunnarson up, saying, “Since Justin Trudeau is claiming Tassi ... has committed to vote pro-abortion, she must either repudiate this position publicly or resign as a chaplain. If she does neither, she must be relieved of her duties by the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board.”
“This issue is about the killing of unborn babies. The Catholic Church teaching from the Bible through Canon Law is unequivocal: the taking of the life of an unborn baby is a terrible offence against God and the human family.”
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Barkley: ‘We As Black People, We Have A Lot Of Crooks’
'There's a reason they racially profile us at times'
12.3.2014
Former NBA great and TV analyst Charles Barkley has doubled-down on his previous remarks about the Ferguson rioters. In an interview with CNN Barkley said, "We as black people, we got a lot of crooks."
"There's a reason they racially profile us at times," he told CNN. "Sometimes it's wrong, sometimes its right."
Barkley recently called the rioters in Ferguson "scumbags" and he defended the acquittal of George Zimmermann in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Host Brooke Baldwin then challenged Barkley on the recent choke-hold death of Eric Garner in New York City and whether the altercation rises to the level of homicide. Barkley responded that what he saw on the video tape does not look like murder. "Well, I think the cops are trying to arrest him and they got a little aggressive. I think excessive force, uh, you know, or something like that, but to go right to 'murder'... Look, when the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong."
"Cops are awesome," he said.
