In his column for CTVNews.ca, for NDP leader Tom Mulcair calls out senior politicians he accuses of using the issue of gender identity to gain support of certain voters, at the expense of the fundamental right to equality.
If it were an oblique attack against people for who they are in terms of their religion or ethnicity, calling out that prejudice would be a slam dunk. Most segments of our society would denounce it. No serious politician would ever get close to it.
It is no less bigoted and prejudicial to target people for who they are in terms of their gender or sexual orientation. Unfortunately, it’s still possible for some politicians to fan the flames of intolerance on these issues by claiming honourable motives.
To conservatives children are important enough to protect before they are born and if they are killed … any other time, children don’t really matter to them … except their own maybe, … maybe.
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To conservatives children are important enough to protect before they are born and if they are killed … any other time, children don’t really matter to them … except their own maybe, … maybe.
To the conservative bloc, they’re important as a resource to be used up, but not as individuals with rights and power of their own.
I believ they fall under property rights to these folks. Like livestock on a farm