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WanderAimlessly
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Avoid the issues? I say press the issues
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CLC Says Pro-Abortion Advisors, Party Officials Pressure Candidates to Hide From Life
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I think having a life issues questionnaire is one good thing in a range of good things which need to be considered by Catholics in selecting a candidate for whom to vote.
The strategy towards justice for the unborn needs to be incremental and intelligent and not the all or nothing approach. I got my candidate to promise not to award the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler. I am working on him to initiate a study – an officially recognized study through Stats Can – on the adverse effects of abortion, which women are affected, and which groups of women are affected. From there we’ll go to Right to Know legislation.
These are small gains. And one can argue that while we are making small gains thousands of unborn babies are marched off to their slaughter. The alternative in the current political climate is: no gains.
Hughes also believes that creating a Pro-Life party is not the answer. That solutions need to be worked out at the local level. How can solutions be worked out at the local level if they contradict national policy?
I wonder if Harper has the vision to lead with respect to life issues. But what alternative do I have? I have had to deal with some painful realities in the last month or so of this election. Sometimes I can’t even recognize what Canada has become.
The strategy towards justice for the unborn needs to be incremental and intelligent and not the all or nothing approach. I got my candidate to promise not to award the Order of Canada to Henry Morgentaler. I am working on him to initiate a study – an officially recognized study through Stats Can – on the adverse effects of abortion, which women are affected, and which groups of women are affected. From there we’ll go to Right to Know legislation.
These are small gains. And one can argue that while we are making small gains thousands of unborn babies are marched off to their slaughter. The alternative in the current political climate is: no gains.
Hughes also believes that creating a Pro-Life party is not the answer. That solutions need to be worked out at the local level. How can solutions be worked out at the local level if they contradict national policy?
I wonder if Harper has the vision to lead with respect to life issues. But what alternative do I have? I have had to deal with some painful realities in the last month or so of this election. Sometimes I can’t even recognize what Canada has become.
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Ani Ibi:
The realites here, at least, are that “all politics is (ultimately) local”. Due to cultural and historical and political districting realities, various areas of the country are controlled by particular party organizations. And that isn’t really going to change.
For example, if one lives in Cook County (Chicago), Democrats will be elected. If one lives in DuPage County (West Suburban Chicago) Republicans will be elected. One could argue until they are blue in the face about how someone from this area or that ought to vote another way (whether that be for a different party’s candidates, a third party, or whatever). And, in good conscience, you might well choose to do so. But that ain’t going to change that the local area will still be controlled by the local party traditionally in power.
As such, the only practical way to work for change is within the local structures. It is from these structures, afterall, that the higher ups will be elected and either retain or be removed from office. And is it local support which they need in order to get elected.
Well, speaking from a U.S. perspective…Hughes also believes that creating a Pro-Life party is not the answer. That solutions need to be worked out at the local level. How can solutions be worked out at the local level if they contradict national policy?
The realites here, at least, are that “all politics is (ultimately) local”. Due to cultural and historical and political districting realities, various areas of the country are controlled by particular party organizations. And that isn’t really going to change.
For example, if one lives in Cook County (Chicago), Democrats will be elected. If one lives in DuPage County (West Suburban Chicago) Republicans will be elected. One could argue until they are blue in the face about how someone from this area or that ought to vote another way (whether that be for a different party’s candidates, a third party, or whatever). And, in good conscience, you might well choose to do so. But that ain’t going to change that the local area will still be controlled by the local party traditionally in power.
As such, the only practical way to work for change is within the local structures. It is from these structures, afterall, that the higher ups will be elected and either retain or be removed from office. And is it local support which they need in order to get elected.
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