LGBTories encouraging Conservatives to change same-sex marriage stance

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B00Mer said:
HOLD ON SLM.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being LGBT, and I'm not bringing up other members sexuality like Flossy did.

People should be confident in their sexuality.
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Sure, you're not doing this to continue the witless banter from continuing further?

It's overdone and needs to be scaled back.
 
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Re: LGBT Tories organizing to change party's policy on same-sex marriage

mentalfloss said:
Bye bye curmudgeons!


LGBT Tories organizing to change party's policy on same-sex marriage

A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Tories says now is the time to drop language opposing same-sex marriage from Conservative party policy.The party’s need to rebuild after the fall election provides an opportunity to get rid of a policy that’s offensive and hurts the party’s chances for growth, a group called LGBTories says and they are asking interim party leader Rona Ambrose for help.

“This policy is a significant obstacle to the acceptance of the Conservative message by voters who would otherwise be attracted to the party’s stance on economic, security, and foreign policy issues,” they wrote in a letter to her made public this week.

The group started about a year ago ahead of Toronto Pride, an event that saw – for the first time – some Conservatives show up for the parade, including current Ontario PC leader and former Tory MP Patrick Brown and Tory MP Kellie Leitch.

Leitch is among those considering a bid for the federal party leadership, a race likely to kick off in earnest at this spring’s Conservative policy convention.

That’s partially why LGBTories aim to send a delegation to that convention to get the policy off the books, group member Ed Lorenzen said in an interview.

“We’re in a leadership contest where candidates are going to be jockeying for the leadership, so we have a window of opportunity here to influence the debate,” he said.

The party’s policy declaration, last reviewed in 2013, says that a free vote in Parliament, not the courts, should determine the definition of marriage and that the party supports legislation defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

It’s been nearly a decade since Parliament last tackled the issue. In 2006, the Conservative minority government introduced a motion asking for a law to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages.

The motion failed. In the years since, including the four years of Conservative majority government, no law was ever brought forward.

LGBT Tories organizing to change party's policy on same-sex marriage - The Globe and Mail
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All three of them?
 
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FiveParadox said:
The Honourable Rona Ambrose P.C., M.P., the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, is being encouraged by a faction of her party to abandon the Conservative Party's position opposing same-sex marriage. The group, which calls itself the "LGBTories," is going to be sending a delegation to the next Conservative Party convention to ask rank-and-file party members to vote to repeal the current Conservative Party policy position on marriage.

While Conservative Party policy states that Tories may vote their conscience on questions of same-sex marriage, the official position of the party continues to be that marriage should be defined as a union between a man and a woman. LGBTories, and a number of progressive party members, are encouraging the party to abandon its socially-conservative marriage position so as to stop scaring away voters who might otherwise support the fiscal, economic, and security policies of the party.

Source: LGBT Tories organizing to change Conservative policy on same-sex marriage (The Globe and Mail)
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I don't think Honourable Rona Ambrose would know how to respond,I don't think these things are scripted in at Conservative school.I sense she would be lost for words,creatvie words if anything.

IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Given this is a dead topic in Canada (it will not be revisited), it makes no sense for them to continue to have it in the books. For me, if I honestly thought they would act on this, I would not consider them as a choice at all.
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It seems it is a Conservative thing, for other parties it is a dead topic,
Conservatives like it on the books.
 
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gerryh said:
and your point is?
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Clearly there's some room for debate. In the case of Milo, he thinks it's selling out to straight norms, but others think it's wrong. Either way, same sex marriage is here to stay, so it shouldn't even be a party policy anymore. It's so normal and accepted these days that being gay no longer gives you privilege points in politically correct poker.
 
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