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To: topher
... following his opposition to Bill C-484, which would have recognized injury of a fetus during a crime as a separate offence from an injury to the mother, and his support for Dr. Henry Morgentaler receiving the Order of Canada, Gravel was ordered by the Vatican to either give up the priesthood or leave politics, and he finally announced he would not run in the 40th Canadian federal election, saying that the priesthood was his life. He cited as his biggest regret his inability to pass his private member's bill C-490, which aimed to improve seniors' access to guaranteed income supplements.
3 posted on 02/15/2011 1:18:04 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
He needs to be tossed from the Catholic Church...

Maybe he needs a personal audience with Pope Benedict XVI.

If that would straighten this priest out, I am all for it.

But I do not see him changing his stand on abortion or homosexual unions.

5 posted on 02/15/2011 1:26:24 PM PST by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- are the values that time has proven them to work)
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