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In Canada, it is very unhealthy to
say sodomy is unhealthy.
Report for February 6,
2004
Last fall, Larry Spencer, a Canadian MP who is a
former Baptist pastor, was asked by a newspaper reporter if he would favor
re-criminalizing sodomy. Spencer said that he would and then gave a brief,
mild explanation why he would favor such a move. Immediately after MP
Spencer's honest answer to a direct question was aired, all you-know-what
broke lose. Within days, the sodomites and their allies had Spencer on his
knees profusely apologizing for his remarks and promising never to say
such things again . . . ever. (See "Puleeeeze
forgive me. Please, please, please. I didn't mean to 'rant.' I'll never
tell the truth again. I promise.") But in the Sodomites' Republic
of Canada, if one has done less than celebrate sodomy, apologies are not
enough. Obviously, in the eyes of Canadians' speech police, Spencer has
shown himself to have a character flaw so serious as to preclude full
rehabilitation. He is now persona non grata in Canadian government
and political circles, a man without even a political party. As you read
the second article below, remember that MP Svend Robinson is an open
sodomite.
In Canada, Christians who preach what the Bible says about homosexual acts
are accused of promoting hatred. Under the heavy hand of sodomite tyranny,
not only is a citizen forbidden from discriminating against sexual
perverts for any reason; but also any accusation of such discrimination
casts a pall of suspicion on the citizen and can result in a loss of
opportunity and freedom. The twenty-two page application for Conservative
Party membership mentioned below contains this question: "Have you
been accused of discriminating or been engaged in activities that promote
hatred against people on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin,
colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family
status or disability?"
Screening aims to weed out extremists
By Sun Media, February 1, 2004
Winnipeg Sun, www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/02/01/332028.html
OTTAWA -- The Conservative Party is attempting to weed out extremists and
criminals by requiring potential election candidates to complete a 22-page
application form. The form is part of a new wave of screening that
political parties have recently adopted.
The Conservative Party application form asks a number of questions
including whether candidates have had links to separatist parties or
movements, have been accused of being racist or anti-gay and if they had
any tax problems with the federal government.
Previously, nominations for parties were generally loose affairs primarily
decided at the riding level with the party leader rubber stamping the
nominee.
Conservative Party House Leader Loyola Hearn said under the new rules
candidates such as Regina Conservative MP Larry Spencer, who came under
fire late last year for his anti-gay views, would likely be disqualified
from running for the new party.
He said in the past "very little" was done to verify the
credentials and background of candidates.
"I can never remember in all my years of running campaigns and
running in them, ever filling out a questionnaire of any kind," Hearn
said.
Party bars MP over anti-gay rant
Conservatives hold vote by secret ballot
Former Alliance member sought to return to caucus
By Tonda Maccharles and Bruce Campion-Smith, February 5, 2004
Toronto Star
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OTTAWA-Conservative party MPs voted yesterday to bar Larry Spencer from
caucus, fearing his anti-homosexual rant last fall would tar the new party
as intolerant.
Caucus members voted in a secret ballot behind closed doors after
listening to a 10-minute presentation by Spencer.
The announcement was made by interim leader Grant Hill, who once
criticized homosexuality as "an unhealthy lifestyle."
At first, Hill would say little except that the caucus had voted to refuse
Spencer's request to return.
"This is a disciplined caucus and a disciplined party," Hill
said. "This is a party that follows strategy and can follow it
clearly."
"I expect that this is a signal to the Canadian public of that."
Pressed by reporters later in the day, Hill later said the vote
"reflects the party and the attitude of the party on comments of that
kind. They were unacceptable and caucus has decided not to admit him to
caucus."
Asked whether he'd changed his own views as well, Hill bristled and said
the issue was "these comments and the way they were handled I agree
with. And for Larry Spencer, those unacceptable comments left him outside
the caucus."
Spencer, a U.S.-born former Baptist pastor who was first elected in 2000,
temporarily resigned from the Alliance caucus last fall and publicly
apologized for an explosive interview he gave on his views on
homosexuality, saying he was "wrong" to link the gay community
to pedophilia.
In the November interview with the Vancouver Sun, Spencer said:
"Let's just say if ... anybody that used Colgate toothpaste, their
life expectancy was lowered by 10, 15 years. What do you think would
happen to Colgate toothpaste? It would be outlawed. Well, we know that's
what happens to men living a gay lifestyle."
The 61-year-old Saskatchewan MP was not expelled from the party because he
retracted his statements, Alliance leader Stephen Harper said at the time.
But Harper accepted his resignation as family issues critic.
Yesterday's decision means Spencer must now sit as an Independent MP, and
cannot run for the party in the expected spring election, since only
members "in good standing" with the caucus may seek the party's
nomination.
Spencer (Regina-Lumsden-Lake Centre) refused an interview request
yesterday.
New Democrat MP Svend Robinson, who condemned Spencer's comments last
fall, said booting him from caucus was the right decision.
"It should have been a no-brainer," Robinson (Burnaby-Douglas)
said. "Imagine the signal that would have been sent if they had
welcomed Spencer back into their caucus."
Gilles Marchildon, of EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere),
wondered if the party is simply trying to improve its election chances.
"Was the decision based on a clear policy conviction and concluding
that Mr. Spencer did not fit within the policies they wanted to champion
or was this election posturing, positioning for the upcoming
election?" Marchildon said.
"It's up to the Conservative caucus now to distance itself not only
from particular members such as Larry Spencer but from a record that did
not speak well on equality and human rights," he said.
Harper, now running for the leadership of the new Conservative party, was
en route to Montreal and missed the caucus vote. He also refused an
interview request, but spokesperson Carolyn Stewart-Olsen said Harper
"made his feelings clear" last fall.
At the time, Harper publicly condemned the remarks as
"unacceptable," but had left the door open for Spencer's return
upon caucus approval.
"Stephen moved him out of caucus immediately," said
Stewart-Olsen.
Leadership candidate Tony Clement yesterday called Spencer's comments
"abhorrent" and said the caucus decision was in the party's best
interests.
"We are not, nor should we be a homophobic party. There's got to be
room in our party for persons of all persuasions, including sexual
persuasions," Clement said.
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