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HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS ROOTING FOR MANNING OVER DAY

LifeSite responds to false charges about its reporting

OTTAWA, July 5 (LSN.ca) - Homosexual activists who first backed Tom Long in the Canadian Alliance leadership race are now supporting Preston Manning. They have vowed to leave the party if Stockwell Day is elected leader. The National Post reports today that an unnamed homosexual activist who had backed Long and another activist, George Marsland, will quit the party since Day refused to publicly repudiate LifeSite News and Campaign Life Coalition.

The charges against LifeSite/Campaign Life are being fueled by negative political strategies and shoddy or biased media reporting. LifeSite has been repeatedly accused of "attacking" or "targeting" a few key Tom Long political advisers by briefly reporting that they are "gay activists" with high level political involvement in gay legislative change. There have been no personal criticisms of individuals or of the homosexual lifestyle in the few LifeSite statements about these members of the Tom Long team, although the previous criminal conviction of one of them was reported. LifeSite has also been falsely accused of "outing" these individuals. No one was "outed" by CLC despite media comments to the contrary about one person who had been "outing" himself one month prior to the May 8 LifeSite report.

One flagrant example of the media bias is demonstrated in today's National Post where writer Tom Arnold says "Marsland, ... also came under attack as a 'gay activist' by the same group (LifeSite)." In fact, LifeSite only quoted from Toronto's homosexually-sympathetic NOW magazine which identified Marsland as an "activist" by stating "On gay issues, however, he's a sharp activist who thinks strategically." The NOW magazine article openly discusses the backroom strategy implemented by homosexual activists in Mike Harris's Ontario Tory party and the implications for influence in the Canadian Alliance. NOW magazine has not been accused of "attacking" gay activists for revealing far more than LifeSite about their political influence.

Arnold also states in the Post that LifeSite "attempts to show that Mr. Long was a 'danger' to Canada because some of his strategists are homosexuals.." LifeSite or CLC have never stated or even implied that Tom Long is a danger to Canada. The statement is completely false.

In related news, one of parliament's most faithfully pro-life, pro-family MPs, Eric Lowther, is standing his ground against attempts to reinforce a critical comment he made about Day last week, which he says was taken out of context. Although he once used the Manning campaign line about Day "driving a wedge right down the middle of the party," he has since backed away from the rhetoric. "I want to be very careful in my words so I don't fuel any divisiveness," Lowther told the National Post.

See all of LifeSite's reporting on the Alliance leadership at
http://www.lifesite.net/clc/allianceleadership/

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