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Wednesday October 1, 2008
Pro-family Coalition Launches Canadian 'Election Guide for Serious Christians
Christians said to represent "the sleeping giant of Canadian politics"
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See the Election Guide for Serious Christians at http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/federal/ElectionGuide08.pdf. (large file takes time to load)
OTTAWA, October 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A coalition of groups that promote family values has launched a voter's guide that specifically targets church-going, conservative Christians with a bold message of voting for candidates who support five "Non-Negotiable Moral Principles".
Across Canada, the coalition is disseminating a 2 page document titled "Election Guide for Serious Christians" which outlines 5 Non-Negotiable moral issues: Abortion, Euthanasia, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Human Cloning and Homosexual Marriage. The guide states: "For serious Christians, these 5 principles should be ranked above all other issues that come up in political debate".
The coalition members include Canada Family Action Coalition™ (CFAC) a national citizen action organization, Campaign Life Coalition™ (CLC) the political arm of Canada's pro-life movement with offices in every province and Defend Traditional Marriage & Family™ (DTMF) a Waterloo-region group which has supporters reaching from BC to Newfoundland.
Jack Fonseca, the Communications Director for DTMF described the goal of this sure-to-be-controversial program: "Christians represent over 73% of Canada's population. While faith groups such as Muslim, Jewish, Sikh and Hindu share our values, it is the sheer number of Christians in this country which represent the sleeping giant of Canadian politics. If that group but wakes from its slumber to elect politicians who share our life values, this country will begin to turn away from the culture of death".
CFAC's Executive Director, Brian Rushfeldt expressed his hope that: "Churches across Canada will use the Election Guide as a Sunday bulletin insert, and lay people as a handout to help fellow Christians vote the way they should."
"Voters guides are an excellent aide to casting an informed vote on crucial moral issues which we've identified on our web site" says Jim Hughes, CLC National President. Hughes notes that CLC's special Election 2008 webpage also provides non-partisan information about many of the individual candidates' records and stands on the life and family issues. He adds that CLC does not tell voters to vote for particular candidates but rather provides them with information needed to make an informed decision. CLC provides a variety of voting options for ridings without a pro-life candidate at http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/federal/votingoptions.html.
"Election Guide for Serious Christians" has been designed to be non-partisan and its use by churches would not contravene any Canada Revenue regulations.
The Campaign Life Coalition Intenet address for the Election Guide is
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/federal/ElectionGuide08.pdf.
This is a large pdf (Acrobat) file that may take some time to download and open.
The guide can be downloaded from any of the coalition member websites: http://www.familyaction.org, http://www.defendmarriagekw.org, http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com.
See the Campaign Life Coalition's Election 2008 web page with information on the candidates and other useful election information at:
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/federal/
See comprehensive CLC suggested Voting Options for ridings where there is no pro-life candidate:
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/elections/federal/votingoptions.html
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