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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Globe & Mail: Religious Conservatives need not apply
I was just waiting for this: the Globe has an article this morning "outing" religious candidates who've been nominated for the Conservatives. They make it sound as though these people have no right to run. And I love this line: "The moves have led to warnings that the party not push a moral-values agenda as it tries to show a moderate face for the coming election campaign." Ya, 3 out of 308 candidates (less than 1%) is real cause for concern.
This is the second media item on the matter. Last week or the week before, CBC TV's Jennifer Ditchburn filed a simliar report, although she made the same point in a much more underhanded way. Her report was introduced as being an explanation of the previous affiliations of new Conservative nominees -- which ones were from the Alliance, which ones were former Progressive Conservatives, etc... But it was really just to point out that Christian people like Peter Stock and David Sweet are running. Sad, but predictable.
Posted by Adam Daifallah on April 20, 2004 | Permalink
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Can you imagine the furor if they started pointing out which candidates were Jewish? Double-standards are great, aren't they?
Posted by: Sean | 2004-04-20 7:57:56 AM
Yeah, this search for faithful Christians is pretty offensive, as if such faith disqualifies a person from public participation. I notice they don't probe deeply into the faiths of Sikh, Hindu, Jewish or Muslim candidates, questioning whether they have any verboten opinions.
Posted by: Kevin Jaeger | 2004-04-20 8:09:12 AM
They don't dare probe into the faith of Sikhs - that's too large a chunk of Paul Martin's support base in British Columbia. :)
Posted by: Sean | 2004-04-20 9:24:36 AM
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