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- From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.210551.28230@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Nov23.005655.8997@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Nov23.051305.4747@mdivax1.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:05:51 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <1992Nov23.051305.4747@mdivax1.uucp> robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jim Robinson) writes:
- >John Paul Morrison (jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca) wrote:
- >>In article <aidler.722412657@sanjuan> aidler@sanjuan.UVic.CA (E Alan Idler) writes:
- >
- >[a number of RP poilicy positions deleted]
- >
- >>These are excellent principles.
- >
- >I like a great deal of them as well. That is why I take an interest in the
- >goings-on of the RP.
- >
- >>So why does it feel so icky to support the Reform Party?
- >>
- >>I want much clearer evidence that the Reform Party is not dragging in
- >>a lot of relgious, moralistic, sel-righteous dogma in with its policies.
- >>
- >>I am not totally convinced that the Reform Party stands for seperating
- >>religious and moral issues from the economic and democratic issues.
- >
- >Perhaps we could put the shoe on the other foot, and you could tell us why
- >you think the RP may be guilty of the above? After all, your statements are
- >somewhat akin to asking a person if they have stopped beating their spouse
- >yet.
-
- Perhaps I'm a victim of all the leftist NDPers who paint them with a
- religious right brush, although I ought to know better than to believe
- a word of what an NDPer says.
-
- In any case, the RP's image is their repsonsibility, and they
- could do a better job of emphasizing their principles where their principles
- concern individual liberty, freedom from state interference in a person's
- private life and morality etc. (I'm assuming they DO support that. If not,
- it's going to be a tough choice to do what is economically correct,without
- sacrificing liberalist social beliefs)
-
- >--
- >Jim Robinson
- >robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
- >{ubc-cs!van-bc,uunet}!mdivax1!robinson
- >
-
-
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