Christian right eyes Canada --please take their whole bodies--all of them

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Subject: Berkowitz-WFC-CHRISTIAN RIGHT Looks to CANADA
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:02:55 -0500 (EST)
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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=20372

Christian right eyes Canada

Canadian voters strike blow against 'cultural Marxism' says Paul Weyrich, godfather of modern conservative movement
Bill Berkowitz
WorkingForChange
02.16.06
Paul Weyrich, widely considered one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement, is looking North these days with hopes that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's newly elected conservative government will transform the social and political landscape of Canada.

To help insure Harper's victory -- or at least not provide any unwanted distractions from his campaign -- Weyrich, who is the chairman and CEO of the Washington, DC-based think tank called the Free Congress Foundation (which he originally co-founded with the conservative beer magnate, Joseph Coors, as the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress), sent out an email a few days before the election advising his U.S. comrades to steer clear of the "leftwing Canadian media."

"Canadian voters have been led to believe that American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative party can be linked with us, they can perhaps diminish a Conservative victory," the email warned.

After Harper's victory in an election that Weyrich found "exciting to watch," he penned a story for his organization's website that described both pessimistic and optimistic scenarios that could result from the election's outcome.

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[glitch]

1. Oh great, now Canada will close the border, just watch. nt

[ret5hd]

2. would you blame them? even in the least? nt

[glitch]

4. Nope! We are a cancer that needs containing, IMO. I just hope it's not

already too late.:(

[Vidar]

5. Amen to that.

[sui generis]

3. well at least Coors is telling the truth

"American conservatives are scary and if the Conservative party can be linked with us, they can perhaps diminish a Conservative victory"

social conservatives of any stripe ("bigoted, selfish, apathetic, sociopathic freaks") are scary in the modern world. That shit may have been necessary for survival back in the good old caveman days, but now it's time for an appendectomy, because it's infected and we'll do better to survive without those traits than with them.

It's not about left or right. It's about how we all get along, and social conservatives believe that they should be able to impose their limited worldview on everyone, that it's their right to do so.

Be afraid of Harper, for real. He's a nutcase and he's going to fundamentally change Canada significantly for the worse if Canada lets him.

[Lisa]

6. it's hard for them to push the "godless commies" line up here

Prominent members of the CCF (later the NDP), who were also ordained pastors ...



Tommy Douglas (Baptist minister)



http://www.saskndp.com/history/douglas.html
http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy-know.html



J.S. Woodsworth (Methodist minister)



http://www.saskndp.com/history/woodsworth.html



Many other prominent leftists were/are active in their churches or synagogues:

David Lewis
http://www.saskndp.com/history/lewis.html

Thora Wiggens
http://www.saskndp.com/history/wiggens.html

Bill Blaikie (current NDP MP in Ottawa, Deputy NDP Leader, and ordained United Church minister)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/ndp_leadership/

Lorne Calvert (current NDP Premier of Saskatchewan, and ordained United Church minister)
http://www.saskndp.com/riding/read.php3?id=111

Paul Dewar (current NDP MP)
http://www.ndp.ca/pauldewar

Peter Julian (current NDP MP)
http://www.ndp.ca/peterjulian

Bill Siksay (current NDP MP)
http://www.ndp.ca/billsiksay


Apologies for leaving many people out, but if I posted a complete list, we would be here all day! It's not unusual for NDP constituency associations to look at the schedules of United (and also Unitarian Church) events before planning their own functions, so as not to put their members in a scheduling conflict. And in at least one city, they share the same portable sound system!