Looney Tunes Rachel Gilmore’s latest tirade on Twitter/X proves once again that she has little patience for anyone disagreeing with her far-left beliefs. Christian believers have the basic right to speak and sing in public. No one is forcing Gilmore to participate in American Christian worship leader Sean Feucht’s free summer concert tour. In rapid-fire posts, Gilmore blasted Conservative MPs Bob Zimmer, Andrew Lawton, Michelle Rempel Garner, and Michael Barrett for defending Feucht’s plan to hold outdoor concerts here. “This Conservative MP is defending a Christian nationalist. My god,” she wrote of Zimmer..Moments later, she scolded Lawton, insisting Feucht “believes only Christians should hold office,” and warned Rempel Garner that Feucht “doesn’t want any Jewish folks, Muslims or anyone who isn’t Christian in government.” Gilmore then suggested the entire Conservative caucus was “too stupid” to research what it supports or else quite happy to exclude non-Christians from office. .She capped the rant by calling Feucht’s music “corny-ass” and musing that she would “rather scoop my eyeballs out” than debate “soft-serve brained losers” chasing her “crumb of clout.”.That is not the language of open dialogue. It is straight-up contempt for millions of Canadians who still see faith as part of public life. Those “soft-serve brained losers” was referring to us, the Western Standard, when we offered to host a debate for Gilmore. But, Gilmore doesn’t want a debate. Because she offers nothing of substance to this debate..Plus, it’s hard to get “crumbs” from her “clout” when she is nothing more than a far-left irrelevant blowhard.Gilmore’s snark reduces an honest disagreement over Section 2 freedoms to playground taunts..When MPs like Barrett remind us that “you don’t have to agree with Sean Feucht to be concerned” about state-sanctioned censorship, they stand on bedrock Charter principles. .Gilmore waves that away with ridicule.The irony here is that Gilmore was hired for CTV’s Your Morning to host a weekly “Fact-Check Friday” segment, then CTV cancelled it after a single appearance once online pushback erupted. That episode should have taught Gilmore something about viewpoint suppression. Instead, she now cheers the shuttering of concerts because the songs offend her sensitive leftist ears.In a free country, the threshing floor for bad ideas is more speech, not less. When city halls yank permits under pressure from ideological bullies like Gilmore, they hand extremists a gift and shrink the common square for everyone else..Gilmore claims she is merely exposing “Christian nationalism.” Fine — let her challenge it in the marketplace of ideas. Yet calling MPs “stupid,” lumping every believer in with political hardliners, and mocking would-be interlocutors as “losers” is not debate. It’s intolerance dressed up as virtue.Canada is built on pluralism. That means Feucht can belt out his worship songs, Gilmore can slag them, and voters can decide who sounds off-key. Shouting “bigot” at anyone who disagrees is the surest way to end free speech and expression in Canada.The irony is that Gilmore is the “bigot” in this fiasco.
