The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a four page guide for Catholic voters.
via: Ethics Daily
Federal Election 2008 Guide
(.pdf)
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has also put out it’s voters guide, outlining Election Canada rules on what churches are able to do and not to do during an election.
10 areas of suggested voter concern are addressed: The Environment, Family Integrity (focusing on child abuse and neglect), Freedom of Religion in Canada, Global Poverty Reduction, National Unity and Reconciliation, Poverty and Homelessness, Prostitution and Human Trafficking, Refugees (with focus on Bill C-280), Religious Freedom Internationally and Respect for Human Life (focusing on Bill C-506, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code {Die with Dignity}, and a question to ask your candidates about the rights of the ‘unborn child’.
Under the Freedom of Religion in Canada section, the two Human Rights provincial rulings are mentioned are marriage commissioner Orville Nichols and Christian Horizons in Ontario which receives full government funding. Both are employment related.
Christian Horizons and Nichols are appealing.
REAL Women Canada, kissing cousins with it’s US counterpart has a 2008 voters guide;” Strengthening Our Nation” which rates The Conservative Party of Canada, The Liberal Party of Canada and NDP on issues the organization promotes. REAL Women Canada just celebrated it’s 25th year in Canada.
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Catholics being told how to vote! Or, rather, how to
think before voting.
The Roman Catholic Church used to do that in Quebec
and the people would go out en masse and vote the
way the priest told them to on Sunday.
Little did they know, they were being kept in their
places by a Church which suppressed them at every
turn.
I was talking to a friend raised protestant in Quebec before the Quiet Revolution about that very thing.
I don’t know how many Catholics appreciate the top-down political advice from their church, I wonder if it tends to alienate now.
The voting guide for REAL women is a hoot. Straight from the US playbook.