Today’s top news?
Hudak and choice
If questioned – and he will make it very hard for any reporter to question him on abortion today, believe me – Hudak will say it isn’t a priority for him. But he’s never renounced his promise to defund abortion.
Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, you deserve to know where the leaders stand on this issue. By vacillating, by dodging microphones, Hudak should be condemned by both sides. Both sides – and there are good people on both sides of the issue – deserve to hear Hudak finally say where he stands.
Here and here and here and here and here is some of the commentary on this issue, over the past few months.
And here is Hudak’s position, in black and white, which has never changed:
Tea Party Tim supports homophobia
What does this poll mean?
The What Went Wrong Song!
Hudak fan comment on Sun web site about today’s column
“Kinsella is a P.O.S. professional liar in the pay of the Gliberal Party.
And if his home is ever burglarized not only do I hope that the burglars use his toothbrush as if it were the probe space-aliens use to examine beamed-up hillbillies but at the very least the burglars put sand in his vaseline.”
Column here. If you were to guess comments aren’t moderated, you’d be right!
Tea Party Tim is in Ottawa!
Donate to EGALE!
As noted below, I’ve donated what I’ve received from the Sun this week to Egale, to protest the homophobic ad. You can do likewise, here.
In today’s Sun: on Hudak’s (and others’) big mistake
To its credit, the Post apologized “unreservedly” for the ad after it ran, saying: “the ad exceeded the bounds of civil discourse” because of its manipulative use of imagery and “in the suggestion that such teaching ‘corrupts’ children.” The Post declared that it would donate the money it received for the ad to a lesbian, gay or transgendered cause.
(I strongly objected to the Sun running a variation of the same ad. Defending the ad as an expression of free speech, to me, is wholly unconvincing. The Sun has frequently refused to run advertising in the past, for all sorts of reasons. Therefore, I too plan to donate what I receive from the Sun this week to an LGBT cause).
Despite the controversy — or perhaps because of it — the contemptible ad was reproduced in its entirety by one PC candidate in Willowdale, complete with a statement indicating that the pamphlet had been officially authorized by the Ontario PC campaign.