Running list of so-con nominees
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posted by buckets at 5/28/2005 11:02:00 PM
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Saturday, May 28, 2005
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A classic Cindy Silver article from when she was with Focus on the family.
http://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/commentaries/070197.html
Snoop. So far I have left out socon MPs of all parties, for reasons that I'll post shortly.
Koby. Thanks, I've added a link.
Nothing scary about it, hearheare. Nor is there anything scary about listing them.
Christians within a party are not inherently wrong. Many Christians support socially moderate (dare I say liberal) policies that are entirely consistent with mainstream Canadian values. In fact most Canadians admit to at least some belief in a higher power yet continue to vote for the Liberal and NDP parties.
The problem is, how does Harper avoid the appearance that the CPC has is being hijacked by a more activist fundamentalist Christian?
There is no problems with me.. only people that hate Christians are on this rant.. people like you.
Welcome, Brian. Hate Christians? Me? Not at all. I'm just collecting data. I think if you read my entry "How many evangelical-swallows make up a takeover?" you'll see that I think that at the moment there is no discernible pattern.
Unless I'm mistaken, the CPC (and its ancestor-forms) is more historically WASP-ish, while the Liberal Party tends more towards Catholics historically. Currently, I'm more CPC-ish than Liberal, because I see the Liberals as having betrayed their mandate of looking out for the little guy - they seem more obsessed with power for power's sake every moment they clutch to it (to approximately paraphrase something the G&M wrote a few weeks ago).
Although I find some of the ways of expressing their views publicly a little goofy, I feel I have more in common with many evangelicals than I do with other Catholics who deny the evil of abortion, for example. Frankly, I've been to a couple of marriage rallies, and been very thankful to have the likes of Bishop Fred Henry speaking to the issue of SSM - he does so with the right balance of truth and compassion that I don't always see from other anti-SSM speakers.
In the interests of fairness, you really should include a list of socon candidates in all parties - otherwise it seems like you're picking on the CPC'ers unfairly. Of course, it's your list.
Buckets, would you be able to comment on why this post was deleted?
(It's still available via Google's cache and this comment page.)
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