Larry Spencer's gift to the Liberals

David Orchard and Joe Clark - not to mention dozens of Liberal and New Democrat politicians, who want us to believe the new Conservative Party of Canada will be bigoted and intolerant - must be on their knees giving thanks for Alliance MP Larry Spencer, who believes homosexuality should be a crime:

Canadian Alliance MP Larry Spencer, his party's family issues critic, says he'd support any initiative to put homosexuality back in the Criminal Code of Canada.

The U.S.-born former Baptist pastor also argues that the gay- rights movement's recent successes in areas like same-sex marriage stem from a "well-orchestrated ... conspiracy" that began in the 1960s.

The conspiracy included the seduction and recruitment of young boys in playgrounds and locker rooms and the deliberate infiltration of North America's judiciary, schools, the religious community, and the entertainment industry, he said.
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Spencer said the conspiracy began with a speech by a U.S. gay rights activist in the 1960s whose name he couldn't recall.

"His quote went something like this ... 'We will seduce your sons in the locker rooms, in the gymnasiums, in the hallways, in the playgrounds, and on and on, in this land.'

"It was quite a long quote stating what was going to happen to the young boys of North America."

Spencer said one of the major steps was to encourage followers to enter the ministry of various churches and to infiltrate North America's schools and teaching colleges.

"The activists that organized in those days (encouraged) people of their persuasion to enter into educational fields, and to do this with the feeling of a mission, you know, of going out there as pioneers in a -- quote-- human rights area, and I think they were successful as we've seen."

Yowza.

The Canadian Alliance is not the only party with members who think this way - several Liberal MPs have similarly retrograde views, and Joe Clark had no problem sharing a caucus with Elsie "Shut up about it" Wayne for years. Let's not forget former Liberal MP Roseanne Skoke, who made spectacularly offensive anti-gay comments in the mid-1990s, with nary a peep of criticism from Jean Chretien (who just mumbled about how "she has a right to her opinion"). But the media is ready to pounce every time an Alliance member says something so spectacularly offensive - and, unfortunately, there seems to be no shortage of CA members stupid enough to take the bait.

I still support the merger - but I'll be keeping a very close eye on the likes of Larry Spencer.

Posted by damian at November 27, 2003 10:39 AM