OTTAWA, January 15, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Deputy Prime Minister and current Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps has announced her bid to run for the leadership of the Liberal Party. In releasing her intentions she noted that she would be pushing legal recognition of homosexual ‘marriage’. The National Post reports that “Ms. Copps also promises to use ‘the pulpit of elected office to push forward full equality for all our citizens,’ in particular, legal recognition of gay marriages.”
Campaign Life Catholic is urging Catholics to contact Copps’ bishop Anthony Tonnos to ask him to admonish her. Copps, a stridently pro-abortion politician who considers herself Catholic has used the Knights of Columbus hall in her riding for her election night headquarters.
In related news, all six of the candidates for the leadership of the federal New Democratic Party have come out as pro-abortion. Two of them Joe Comartin and Pierre Ducasse prefaced the declaration of their support for abortion by noting they are Catholic. Hilary White of Campaign Life Catholic told LifeSite “It is becoming a sick joke that politicians regularly proclaim to be Catholic while at the same time boasting of their views opposed by the faith”. “In these times of looming scandal,” she said, “the Church can no longer afford the luxury of compromise. It is time for the bishops to say ‘enough’,”
Contact: Hamilton Bishop Most Reverend Anthony F. Tonnos c/o Secretary Merry Glover [email protected] See the National Post coverage: https://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?id={66AB40FE-B9F6-447E-A84C-A6576ECE3777}