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Policies Attract Senator Cools – She Has
Long Record Of Opposing Equality, Abortion, Feminism
Led fight in Senate against Hate Crime Protection for Gays &
Lesbians
Canadians
for Equal Marriage (CEM)
For Immediate Release
June 9, 2004
Toronto, June
9, 2004. It was reported yesterday that Senator
Anne Cools has switched from the Liberals to the Conservatives.
“I can understand
what attracted Senator Cools to the Conservatives,” said John
Fisher, spokesperson for Canadians
for Equal Marriage. “Her extreme views mesh well with others
in the Conservative caucus. She led the charge in the Senate, along
with several Conservative Senators, to stop hate propaganda protection
for gays and lesbians. I’m sure she looks forward to gutting
that protection.”
“Senator
Cools is known for her opposition to equality for lesbian and gay
people, to abortion, and to feminists,” said Cicely McWilliam,
Outreach Coordinator for Canadians for Equal Marriage. “She has
even gone so far as to claim that abusive mothers are responsible
for abusive men.”
“Senator
Cools has consistently denounced homosexuality and claimed that there
is no evidence that gay and lesbian Canadians suffer from discrimination,”
said Laurie Arron, Political Coordinator for Canadians for Equal Marriage.
“She has opposed equality for gay and lesbian people at every
turn. She will, I’m sure, feel right at home in the new Conservative
Party.”
QUOTES FROM SENATOR ANNE COOLS
Blamed women for abusive men
“It was
she who said, in 1995, on International Women's Day no less, that
abusive mothers are responsible for creating violent sons. ‘Behind
every abusing husband is an abusing mother,’ were her words.”
(Globe and Mail, Sat, Mar 1,1997 p.D9, Margaret Wente)
Condemned “feminist terrorism and aggression” for appointment
of women to the bench:
Gender feminist
ideology has driven much law in Canada, and consequently has driven
much injustice. It has ravaged law, justice, many careers, and
many human lives. It worked for many years. It was even lucrative.
It resulted in positions, jobs, grants, and even appointments
to the bench. It created a terrible silence as it inflicted obvious
injustices on many. It was buttressed by feminist terrorism and
aggression, ready to pursue to destruction anyone who gets in
its way, while chanting its mantra that all evil and violence
are men's, and that all goodness, virtue, and truth are women's.
(Mar. 4, 1999, speech in the Senate, http://sen.parl.gc.ca/acools/cools99/04mar99.htm
)
“The
majority of them [false accusations of abuse] are clearly by mothers.
Mothers are the accusers…” (Feb
29, 2000, radio interview)
Opposed adding sexual orientation inclusion to the Canadian Human
Rights Act:
“The
concern is that pederasts and paedophiles will advance claims
to engage in adult/child sexual relationships as a matter of human
rights; that claims will be advanced on the legal grounds that
pederasty and paedophilia are sexual orientations having entitlements.”
(Senate
debate, May 16, 1996)
Opposed pension benefits for same-sex couples in Bill C-78:
“Bill
C-78's clause 75 is flawed because it is stealthy; it is disingenuous.
Honourable senators, sex, sexual activity, sex-like activities
and all carnal actions are not a ground on which to found legal
entitlements and obligations. Entitlements and obligations flow
from social commitment, mutually accepted and given formally,
not from carnal actions.” (Senate
debate, Sept 10, 1999)
Opposed common-law recognition of same-sex couples in Bill C-23:
“It is
also highly significant that in each of these recent court cases
on the issue of homosexual/ lesbian rights, no evidence has ever
been introduced to the court to support actual discrimination
against homosexuals/lesbians.” (May
31, 2000, Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee)
Honoured by extremist group REAL Women
In 1999, Senator
Cools was named Person of the Year by Real Women of Canada in
recognition of her "outstanding contributions to promote
and preserve family values in Canada." (Source)
Anti-abortion
“Misguided
policies in social welfare law, in family law, in divorce law,
in child welfare law, in abortion law have resulted in national
problems, in our crises of father alienation and fatherlessness.”
(May
27, 2002, speech to Int’l Fatherhood Conference, Washington,
D.C.)
Fiercely opposed protecting gays and lesbians from hate propaganda:
“Honourable
senators, Bill C-250 will confer upon sexual activities and sexual
preferences those immutable, morally neutral, physical, racial
characteristics possessed by peoples of common origins. Further,
honourable senators, the term "sexual orientation" is
still undefined and unlimited in law.” (Senate
debate, Oct 27, 2003)
“The
fact of the matter is, honourable senators, that we discourage
children from smoking cigarettes because tobacco is harmful. I
would submit that we are talking about some sexual activities
that are dangerous and life-threatening.” (Senate
Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Mar 17 2004)
Source: Canadians
for Equal Marriage (CEM)
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