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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (299)	11/16/2000 2:06:29 AM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 37260

A response from a friend of mine who lives in another country to the E-mail I posted earlier: I appreciate you trying to keep me informed, but to tell you honestly, I´ve never seen such one-sided, bigoted and misinformed attitudes about a political leader or Christians in general in my life. The ignorance of this piece just leaves my mouth open. I mean, if Day was Jewish, or Muslim, or anything else, do you think this sort of innuendo would fly? Why are Canadians so afraid of having a Christian Prime Minister? Americans don´t seem to have any problem with it. Both Gore and Bush claim to be Christians (whether they actually are, only God knows.)The point is: Have you noticed that being religious is a political advantage in the US, while in Canada people are so close-minded that it is a huge political liability? So Day is in favour of capital punishment, "American-style" work camps (OH MY!) and creationism. So he´s aganist the killing of unborn babies and the extension of special rights to people based on their sexual orientation. Notice that there is no reference which says that Day would strip rights away from gays or in any way contribute to prejudice against gay citizens. All this trashy e-mail does is try to scare people based on anti-Christian discrimination based on ignorance and fear of truly pluralistic society where people who share Day´s platform actually get a say in the political process. The author of the e-mail below probably values his freedom of expression. If he exercised it a bit more responsibly, perhaps he wouldn´t have to worry so much about what respecting other people´s freedom of expression, thought and religion actually means. In other words, show me a place where Stockwell Day says that Jean Chrétien shouldn´t be PM because he´s Catholic, or Svend Robinson shouldn´t be an MP because he´s gay. JUST BECAUSE DAY IS A CHRISTIAN IS NO REASON WHY HE SHOULDN´T BE PRIME MINISTER. And he shouldn´t have to be subjected to fear-mongering based on distorted half-truths and outright lies such as is happening in Canada right now. One more question: Where is so-called Canadian tolerance at times like these? It doesn´t seem to apply to candidates at 16 Sussex Drive who happen to believe in Jesus Christ.