{"id":8995,"date":"2023-09-04T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2023-09-04T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:41:13","slug":"remembering-a-free-speech-martyr-christian-author-malcolm-ross-http-cafe-nfshost-com-p8995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8995","title":{"rendered":"Remembering A Free Speech Martyr &#038; Christian Author, Malcolm Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Remem<\/strong>bering A Free Speech Martyr &amp; Christian Author, Malcolm Ross<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend gave me his treasure trove of tapes and book and pamphlets among which are many recordings of CAFE meetings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I listen to a tape in short segments.\u00a0<br>I am most of the way through the talk given by Malcolm Ross June 25th 1998 <strong>&#8220;My 10 Year Battle for Vindication<\/strong>.&#8221;<br>I&#8217;m pretty sure I bought Ross&#8217; book from you at some point. [The book is <strong>Cross-Examination: Christianity on Trial &#8211;<\/strong>&#8211; BY Malcolm Ross fired for his religious writings on abortion and other issues appealed to Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court in 1990. This rare book is available for $25.00 plus $10 postage from C-FAR Books, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3, CANADA.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will be turning the tape-recording in to a transcript. His explanation of the implications of the ruling of the Supremes is shocking a quarter of a century later &#8212; astonishing not a scintilla of genuine &#8220;evidence&#8221; that any real person felt they were in a &#8220;poisoned environment&#8221; in his classroom. Yet, the Supremes figured out that it was only reasonable to draw the inference\u00a0 of such !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, I fear,  is what&#8217;s going to happen to Bill Whatcott, if he goes through the meatgrinder again. The Bible itself becomes &#8216;hate literature&#8217; if published anywhere outside some little &#8216;safe space&#8217; of a building properly registered with the gov&#8217;t as a &#8216;charity&#8217; for purposes of income tax receipts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ross cites a book to do with the doctrines of modern Juda-ism in which the &#8220;Holocaust&#8221; is understood to be an essential part of that religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There isn&#8217;t one person in a million who grasps that. I sure didn&#8217;t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What that means for Canada, is,\u00a0 \u00a0 after the recent amendment to section 319 of the Criminal Code, a person can be prosecuted for &#8216;blasphemy&#8217; against the state-sanctioned religion,\u00a0 if some one of the Jud-aic persuasion, feels his or her dignity has been impugned by his questioning the Hollywood version of World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon Watson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CROSS-EXAMINATION.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CROSS-EXAMINATION.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CROSS-EXAMINATION.jpg 679w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CROSS-EXAMINATION-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering A Free Speech Martyr &amp; Christian Author, Malcolm Ross A friend gave me his treasure trove of tapes and book and pamphlets among which are many recordings of CAFE meetings I listen to a tape in short segments.\u00a0I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=8995\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,29,1627,2098,87,11,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8998,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}