Posted on 12/10/2006 10:46:49 AM PST by Heartofsong83
Canadian Activist: Marriage Vote Signals Conservative Party's Abandoned Values
By Chad Groening December 8, 2006
(AgapePress) - A Canadian pro-family activist admits he is bitterly disappointed that the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper failed to restore traditional marriage to the people of Canada on Thursday.
The vote was 175-123 against Harper's resolution calling for marriage to once again be defined strictly as a union between one man and one woman. The liberal Globe and Mail newspaper began an article on the vote with a bold pronouncement: "Same-sex marriage is here to stay."
Although pro-family leader Brian Rushfeldt, executive director of the Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC), had held out hope for a narrow victory in favor of traditional marriage, he says he got a clue about how things would turn out from watching Wednesday's debate process on the resolution. "There were times that there were only ten people out of 308 in the House to listen to the debate," he says. "So obviously, they didn't even have enough respect for the issue to sit in and listen to the points that were being made."
Rushfeldt says unfortunately the Conservative Party has too many members who are not really conservative. He expects that fact will probably cost Harper in next year's expected elections.
"True conservatives are going to be very disgusted," the CFAC spokesman contends, "and it's not that they will go vote elsewhere, because there is nowhere else to vote." What Canadians are likely to do, he suggests, is what many Americans did during the recent U.S. national elections; that is, "simply stay home."
Conservative Canadian citizens will likely just stay away from the polls next election, Rushfeldt explains, "because they won't support a party that's not going to represent their values." He believes the vote on marriage has clearly demonstrated that many of the Conservative Party members in Parliament are not really conservative at all.
"Progressive Conservatives -- which are liberals, in essence -- have basically, in our estimation, taken control of that party now," the pro-family activist asserts. "And the tone that we saw, in both the debate and ten or eleven of them voting against marriage, has set the tone perhaps for a defeat for the Conservative Party in the next election."
Rushfeldt says the lack of a genuine defense of marriage or proposed solution in this week’s parliamentary debate has signaled "the abandonment of conservative values." And when a party abandons the values of its core base, he contends, that party loses support.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online. © 2006 AgapePress all rights reserved.
The main reason they have such prominent positions within the party is to make it appear "moderate" (read: liberal) to the media and to liberal voters. They have only themselves to blame if the base does not show up, as it wrecks everyone else as well.
If conservatives don't show up then Canada is going to suffer. Harper should not be blamed for the actions of individual politicians. If he had bigger margins and this kind of thing was happening then I'd be concerned but he and the conservatives are doing the best they can given the narrow victory they won.
That is why we need to get better candidates in every nomination meeting (primary) in every riding from coast to coast to coast.
These Liberals in all but name should be knocked out, or should cross the floor.
I ask my fellow Freepers to sit back and realize the difference between Canada and the United States. Even the California legislature is more conservative than the Canadian Parliament on issues like gay marriage (if you look at the levels of support and opposition).
It's clear that Canada has almost completely lost its way.
Marriage is going to be pretty much obsolete in 20 years.
Later pingout...
Just about the entire world has lost its way when it comes to politics, and political correctness is to blame for all of this, with its allies in the mainstream press.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Just about the entire world has lost its way when it comes to politics, and political correctness is to blame for all of this, with its allies in the mainstream press."
I know. But America is still far more conservative than almost any other 'Western', civilized country. If you do a comparison between Canada or any northern or western European country and the United States, you will see what I mean.
Let's just see if the U.S. can truly remain the most conservative country in the world now that the Democratic Party has taken over. I'm concerned that the U.S. may eventually become a very socialistic country if the Democrats maintain their political dominance for more than just two years. If both amnesty for illegal immigrants and the creation of the very socialistic North American Union become realities here very soon, then I truly don't see conservatism maintaining its majority here in the long-term. The profound increases in the illegal population here will only also help the political left to increase their voting numbers here to the point where conservatives can never catch up!
"Let's just see if the U.S. can truly remain the most conservative country in the world now that the Democratic Party has taken over."
I share your concerns, but amazingly even the Dems are more conservative than the Europeans and Canadians.
Oh, please.
In the '70's, the "greens" were saying that all of the oceans would dry up in 20-30 years along with all of the Earth's oil resources. We are all still waiting on those predictions.
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