Posted: 07/ 28/ 07 4:45 pm Post subject: Oldest American Catholic weekly endorses FCP
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Family Coalition Party — The Only Catholic Option
( Special to The Wanderer)
“ We cannot, may not surrender to evil; let us respond to evil with good” — Pope Benedict XVI.
Canada has become the proverbial canary in the coal mine of America’s culture war. Draconian “ hate speech” laws and homosexual “ marriage” are just two examples of what America’s social engineers would like to import from our neighbors to the north.
Ontario, home to one-third of Canada’s population, will be headed to the polls this October 10. Voters will elect a new government to the provincial legislature, and perhaps a new premier of the province. The provincial premier is a position roughly equivalent to state governor. In sifting the possible candidates, a Catholic is confronted by both good news and bad.
The Bad
Let’s start with the bad. Of Ontario’s three major parties and their leaders, none are acceptable from a pro- life perspective. All three major party leaders, and their parties, embrace the culture of death. Howard Hampton is the leader of the socialist New Democrat Party ( NDP). He is an outspoken proponent of abortion and the homosexual agenda.
The same is true of current premier and Ontario Liberal Party leader Dalton McGuinty Jr. This is unfortunate because McGuinty grew up as one of ten children in a traditional Catholic home. His father, Dalton McGuinty Sr., was also a member of the Ontario legislature. The senior McGuinty spent his days in government as an outspoken proponent of the culture of life.
Yet the biggest disappointment is Ontario Progressive Conservative Party ( PC) leader John Tory. He is the consummate Bay Street Boy, a scion of upper- class Protestant elitism, or what we south of Canada’s border call a Country Club Republican. Not only has Tory silenced orthodox Catholics and other social conservatives within the party, but has shown more enthusiasm than either McGuinty or Hampton in promoting the homosexual agenda.
In June, he enthusiastically served as “ Distinguished Patron” to a homosexual youth film festival featuring, in the words of one local homosexual magazine promoting the event, “ the cream of the crop of smoking- hot hardcore porn for dykes and genderqueers of all stripes.” As Tory told The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, “[ The organizers are] creative and they’re people who are making a contribution to what is a very important industry in [Toronto]. They’re a key part of the ‘ creative city’ that is so important to the economy.” With conservatives like Tory . . . you get the picture.
The Good
The good news, as pointed out by Fr. Alphonse de Valk, is that a fourth party is on the rise called the Family Coalition Party ( FCP). Fr. de Valk is an old Basilian who has spent the past 30 years at the forefront of Canada’s culture war. He is the founding editor of both
The Interim, Canada’s largest prolife newspaper, and Catholic Insight, a magazine that has been outspoken in promoting the Church’s moral teaching.
Catholic Insight is the venue Father chose to endorse the FCP. In the July/ August 2007 issue, Father penned an editorial titled “ Ontario Needs the Family Coalition Party.”
“ The time is urgent,” Fr. de Valk writes. “ Canada, like European countries, is spiraling down to a demographic and moral collapse.”
“ Following these convictions, and examining the political situation in Ontario for the upcoming October 10 election, Catholic Insight
sees no choice but to abandon the policy of supporting worthy candidates in all parties. Instead, we will support only the candidates of the small, centrist, pro- people Family Coalition Party. The situation is so bad that it would be inexcusable for us to do otherwise.”
Father then lists how Ontario’s major political parties and their leaders have undermined the culture of life in recent years. The FCP, on the other hand, stands for life from conception to natural death, marriage as an institution exclusive to one man and one woman, lower taxes for families, a greater role for faith and family values within society, and respect for the family farm and the province’s rural residents.
In light of these political options, The Wanderer can only join Catholic Insight in urging our Ontario readers and other “ Ontarians of goodwill to rally behind the Family Coalition Party, at once a movement for change and a political party. It needs members, supporters, volunteers, and, above all, candidates willing to bring the message of life into the election, not the politically correct program of a dying society.”
(The above was written by a Wanderer associate who is a keen observer of the Canadian scene.)
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