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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: Gay Rights and Political Parties
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.143012.21781@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <murphy.727951759@well.sf.ca.us> <1993Jan25.125743.22068@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 14:30:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.125743.22068@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
- >In article <murphy.727951759@well.sf.ca.us> murphy@well.sf.ca.us (Daniel A. Murphy) writes:
- >>
- >>I'm curious is Canada's five major political parties have any
- >>significant differences of opinion on gay and lesbian civil rights
- >>and all that?
- >
- >The strangest thing in Canada is that it is the Liberal Party
- >which has the most vocal minority opposed to abortion.
-
- If I put the words "Catholic" and "Immigrants" together, would that
- explain some of the strangeness?
-
- There's a STRONG tendancy for immigrants of various sorts to vote
- Liberal, largely because it was under the Liberals that many came to
- Canada. Consider in particular the Italian community as an example.
- They tend to be rather Catholic, and the Pope kind of frowns on
- abortion, if I remember correctly?
-
- In addition, the Liberal Party has fairly strong roots in Quebec,
- which was very strongly Catholic.
-
- Does this explain the strangeness?
-
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