Harper not getting approval from right wingers down south

It wouldn’t be a big surprise to see the religious right down south frothing at the mouth with the very likely prospect of a Harper led conservative government.

Not the case. Believe it or not they are fairly critical of Harper’s leadership because they think he is getting way too close to the centre on social policy issues. WTF?

Excerpts from the story:

“Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has successively come down more and more against even openness to social conservative causes within the party.  The original position of the Party was to allow for private members bills on moral issues including abortion and for free votes in the House of Commons on those measures.  However, in response to increased pressure from the Liberals and the media, Harper vowed to "use whatever influence I have in Parliament to be sure that such a matter doesn't come to a vote."

Even on the issue of traditional marriage Harper has backed away from social conservatives indicating that legislation on the matter is by no means a priority.

In the United States where such harsh politicking is commonplace, social conservatives have at least one mainstream political leader to speak up for them - the President - who, rather than being afraid, is proud and usually confident to affirm that he is pro-life, pro-family and pro-faith. This publicly projected confidence in his beliefs, totally lacking in many Canadian social conservative politicians, has had a powerful effect in disarming the influence of opponents on those issues.

Surveys have shown that television is where most Canadians receive their news. However, television is by far the most uniformly biased form of communications, with hardly any meaningful socially conservative Canadian presence represented on mainstream stations whatsoever.

So just in case you missed the above it says, in a nutshell, we are lacking a right wing Christian leader and we watch way too much TV. Immediately following the above however is my personal favorite:

“Fox News, in the United States, while not socially conservative, is at least usually 'fair and balanced', leaving openings for socially conservative views to be expressed and respected.” 

Fox News fair and balanced? Fuck right off you moron. Unbelievable. I’m not voting for the conservatives but I feel a lot better about them knowing the lunatic religious right down south doesn’t completely approve of him. The entire story is worth a read, they continue on to tell us that we need to do a better job searching for the truth on something called the “i-n-t-e-r-n-e-t”. By the way, per capita, the only nation in world that accesses the net more than us in those crazy Aussies.

I’m pissed, look for more religious stories to follow.