And yet you have disqualified the Conservative Party because of one man's beliefs.
Yes I have disqualified the Conservative Party because of one man's beliefs. He is a powerful and influential member of the party and he also happens to be a fataing moron. Any group that would put a guy like him in a position of power is not going to get my vote.
"God's law is clear: standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school."
- Stockwell Day, the Conservative Party's Foreign Affairs critic, in Alberta Report magazine, 1984.
This is good too...
"Most Canadians profess to be of the Christian faith and I think we need to be sensitive to the fact it bothers Christians when the name of Jesus Christ is used in a blasphemous way."
- Conservative Foreign Affairs critic Stockwell Day on the need to ban or censor Of Mice and Men in public schools, Red Deer Advocate, March 24, 1994. This happened in the middle of national Freedom to Read Week.
I wouldn't trust a guy with these beliefs to swab up the mudroom at the elementary school, stack books at the library or walk my dog. No way in hell would I contribute to him running the country I live in.
One man who's beliefs do not represent party policy, and whom does not represent your riding (presumably).
He doesn't represent my riding but he would represent my country.
There is not a human on earth who leaves their values at home when they go to work. We are defined by them, and our attitudes and decisions are shaped by them. To ask a person to do something like that is to ask them to be an entirely different person.
I don't know what you are trying to convince me of with this. You're the one who said his belief(s)...
"has absolutely no bearing on his ability to do his job - is also stupid."
not me.
[B]Would you have a problem if our Foreign Affairs minister were openly gay?[B/]
That depends if I thought he or she was smart enough to do the job. I don't think Stockwell Day is smart enough.
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