Listen up, dear keith. Your first sentence: look up "insisting." It never happened. If you're referring OT, all members do it from time to time. You're confused about the pistol and Savage Model 24, two separate incidents over widely separated times. The illegal transport in my "hunting kit," of which the Mounties had been informed beforehand concerning its use, resulted in not as much as an admonition or rebuke. It was a different time. The other was illegal transport in my "aircraft survival kit", having forgot to remove it entering the US. Even today the transgression would most likely be accommodated with a warning. I broke the law decades ago. So what?
I've explained how my father was accepted into the Church in the last year of his life. It's irrelevant to me if a bilous person in Ohio doesn't believe it and accuses me of lying. I remember the words of a dear priest and retired professor of our university's philosophy department: "It's enough to come on the last day, on the last breath. There's no litmus test." Many may disagree with him. That's acceptable to me. I respect all faiths, warts and all. I try to follow Christ's injunction to love---and wrestle with it at times. What I won't do is stoke the polarization of anger, fear and hate you've exhibited here which is tearing apart, taking your great country down. It's not the Canadian way.
Have a good day.
