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Conservatives
again spout extremist views
CUPE
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June
7, 2004
Another
Conservative candidate has spoken her mind – undermining leader
Stephen Harper’s strategy to present their party as “moderate”.
Flaming homophobe Cheryl
Gallant, MP for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, said June 5 that
she believes the Conservative caucus wants to repeal recent protections
afforded gays, lesbians and others under Canada’s hate crimes
legislation.
Further, Gallant
told CTV’s Question Period that having sexual orientation included
in Canada’s hate crimes legislation would extend protection to
“pedophiles”. She
objected… “to having sexual orientation just listed, that
encompasses, for example, pedophiles. I believe that the caucus as
a whole would like to see it repealed,” she told the national
news show.
Gallant introduced
a petition calling for removing sexual orientation from hate crimes
legislation on May 14, 2004. Sexual orientation was included in Canada’s
hate crimes legislation in March of this year after being introduced
by NDP MP Svend Robinson, after years of struggle to combat bashing
and other crimes against Canada’s millions who are lesbian, gay,
bisexual or transgender. At a rally on May 14, Gallant went so far
as to say that Robinson’s legislation demonstrated “the
moral decay of our democratic institutions”.
Gallant was in
the media barely two weeks ago, comparing the beheading of an
American hostage in Iraq to abortion.
Equating pedophilia
with diverse sexual orientation is gross
and homophobic, and should deter anyone considering voting
Conservative out of frustration with the Liberals.
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