Conservative Party’s Gay Pride Damage Control Dishonest!

Jim Hnatiuk - Leader of the Christian Heritage Party
CHP Speaks Out 
 
Ottawa, CHP–”The Conservative Party is obviously feeling the backlash from the pro-life and pro-family community for their calculated risk in handing out $400,000 to the Toronto gay pride parade, and is now doing some damage control,” says Jim Hnatiuk, CHP Canada’s national leader.
 
Canwest News has reported that Conservative MP Brad Trost said, “‘almost the entire Conservative caucus’ and ‘most of the Prime Minister’s Office were taken by surprise at this announcement.’”
 
Mr. Trost is further quoted as saying, “‘The pro-life and the pro-family community should know and understand that the tourism funding money that went to the gay pride parade in Toronto was not government policy.’”
 
But selling out Canadian families to receive votes is strategic party policy. And, denying culpability is equally strategic!
 
Egale, a gay advocacy group, recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada.
 
This extract from the June 22, 2009 Maclean’s provides the missing piece of the puzzle that Mr. Trost doesn’t think we have.
 
“Conservative strategist Jaime Watt, who is chairman of the Navigator communications firm, was presented with the group’s (i.e. Egale’s) inaugural Leadership Award for LGBT human rights.”
 
So who is this Conservative strategist, Jamie Watt?
 
He raised his daughter from a past marriage with his same-sex partner.
 
He played a key role in getting Mike Harris’ Conservative government elected in Ontario. The Harris government changed every single statue that dealt with common-law couples and granted same-sex couples equal rights to the traditionally married couples, according to Derek Vanstone, Jim Flaherty’s chief of staff.
 
Vanstone also called Watt ‘a trailblazer who made it easier for people to be gay and Conservative, like myself.’
 
According to Flaherty, who was Ontario’s attorney-general at the time, ‘Some were surprised our government took this decision… but conservatives fundamentally believe in equality and fairness. It does, however, sometimes take leaders such as Jaime to help us live up to our ideals.’”
 
Ron Gray, former CHP leader, explains, “This brief (275 word) article reveals why true conservatives have been losing ground to radical homosexual fundamentalists in recent years: Egale and similar groups have infiltrated the ‘conservative’ heartland, starting ‘way back in the days of the Harris ‘Common Sense Revolution’. The pitch has consistently been: Never mind what’s good for Canada’s families and children; we can deliver what’s good for your party: votes. But we want what we want: the elimination of any standards of sexual right and wrong.”
 
 In the interest of receiving more votes the Conservatives have made the hallmark of change ‘fairness’ rather than passing along social values to the next generation.
 
Gray continued, “When Don Spratt and I were lobbying for pro-life legislation in November, 1989, we sat across the desk from a ‘pro-life Christian’ P-C Member of Parliament, and said: ‘This is what Christians want.’ He looked us in the eye and said, coldly, ‘But you can’t deliver their votes.’”
 
So when Watt and others like him present a vote-getting strategy that requires caving in on every moral front, Conservative politicians–including many ‘Christian’ Conservative politicians–topple over like duck-pins. It’s expedient to give up your principles to obtain the votes.
 
Hnatiuk says, “Leadership requires taking a principled stand on issues, and remaining true to your convictions. It’s time for true leadership on this and other important issues affecting Canadian society. CHP Canada is willing to take that lead.”