TORONTO, January 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In its just relesed February newsletter, Canada’s national pro-life political organization, Campaign Life Coalition, has placed strong emphasis on two current major threats to family life and free speech rights on moral issues.
First up, CLC discusses the implications of the Martin government’s same-sex marriage bill and proposes detailed strategies that should be undertaken by grassroots opponents of the legislation. The organization emphasizes the bill can be defeated, regardless of what some media and politicians are stating. CLC’s postcard campaign for instance is receiving a huge response with well over 100,000 having been distributed to date and orders still flooding in.
Second in the newsletter, Campaign Life Coalition warns there is a strong effort by social liberal Red Tories to pass resolutions at the Conservative Party’s March policy convention “which would impose socially liberal policies on the party” and limit debate and free votes.
CLC president Jim Hughes warns, “Grassroots members of the party must wake up to what is going on and get heavily involved in order to maintain a Conservative party that gives voice to their concerns”. Hughes notes that resolutions passed at a Toronto regional meeting of the party indicates “the Red Tories are working very hard to play a major role at the March policy convention.”
“However”, adds Hughes, “this fight on the floor of the convention can be won given that many traditional values grassroots members will be delegates to the conventions”.