Oh please,
The so called "religious right" has been dying off for years and is no longer a significant threat. Harpo won't do a dam thing about our hobby. It serves him no purpose to.
If only this were true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_of_Canada
Social policy
Aboriginal affairsThe Reform Party called for major changes in the federal government's relations with aboriginal peoples, which included dismantling the Department of Indian Affairs and transferring its responsibilities directly to aboriginal governing bodies to lessen aboriginal peoples' dependence on the federal government.[8]
AbortionThe Reform Party took a strong pro-life stance on the issue of abortion rights, calling for abortion to be made illegal.[9] (quote is an opinion. this was never party policy) However, Manning himself declared that his party would be based on the representation of the people, therefore distancing himself from his party's official stance on abortion.
Gay and lesbian rightsThe Reform Party strongly opposed extending rights to gays and lesbians such as the right to marriage. Many Reformers saw homosexuality as a moral wrong. Reform leader Preston Manning himself once publicly stated that "homosexuality is destructive to the individual, and in the long run, society".[10]
Immigration policy, language, and minority rightsThe Reform Party advocated an immigration policy based solely on the economic needs of Canada.[11] Reform's early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991 stating that Reformers opposed "any immigration based on race or creed or designed to radically or suddenly alter the ethnic makeup of Canada".[12] The statement was considered too controversial and subsequent Reform Party policy documents did not declare any similar concern for a radical alteration of the ethnic make-up of Canada.[13] However this controversy and others raised the question over whether Reform was intolerant to non-white people and whether the party harboured racist members.[13] Subsequent repeated accounts of xenophobic and racist statements by individual Reform party supporters and members spread this concern, though the party itself continuously denied that it supported such views.[7]
The Reform Party declared its opposition to existing government-funded and sponsored bilingualism and multiculturalism.[13] Reformers claimed that efforts to create a bilingual country had not worked and that language policy should be a provincial issue. Reformers criticized government-sponsored multiculturalism for creating a "hyphenated Canadian" identity, rather than a single Canadian identity.[14]
http://communities.canada.com/vanco...er-keeps-his-evangelicalism-very-private.aspx
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is damned if he does talk about his
evangelical beliefs and damned if he doesn't. If he continues to avoid answering questions about his religious convictions, political observers say he appears secretive, like he's hiding something. But, at the same time, most Canadians do not share the moral convictions of his evangelical denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church.
The Alliance Church, to which Harper has belonged for decades, believes Jesus Christ will return to Earth in an apocalypse, won't ordain women, strongly opposes abortion and divorce, condemns homosexuality as the most base of sins and believes those who aren't born-again are "lost."
Now again, please tell me why you are saying that the Conservatives will not change the social landscape of Canada! I don't want a religious fanatic as
my leader. I haven't been to church for decades and don't intend on having someone elses religious views crammed down my throat or imposed on the way I choose to live my life.
I'm just a lil' pissed today at the lack of choice we had yesterday. I'm not a socialist by the way - not in the truest sense. I will 'own' having a social conscience, I do however appreciate fiscal conservatism. My dream is a candidate with a strong social conscience who doesn't care what I do in my bedroom but, can also balance the books LOL
