“It’s pretty clear the NPD have stepped back because they realize they’re helping the pro-life movement,” said Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition.
“It’s impossible to comprehend why the Manitoba NDP party passed this recommendation,” said Maria Slykerman, president of Campaign Life Coalition Manitoba.
It seems some of the public and many establishment leaders have lost their marbles or, shall we say, common sense at the moment regarding the legacy of the personally likeable NDP leader Jack Layton.
Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition, noted Layton's passing and offered a prayer for the political leader. "May God have mercy on his soul," Hughes said.
“Although he’s not someone we would support politically because of his pro-abortion stand, we do pray for him," said Mary Ellen Douglas, Campaign Life Coalition’s national organizer.
“Should members of the LGBT community who, as the result of personal decision, want to discuss changing their sexual behaviour be told there’s nowhere to go?” asks Don Hutchinson of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
The current law restricting sodomy to those over 18 carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. Comartin is well known for his legislative support of homosexual ideology.