Bill Carroll of the CFRA also wanted us to know that he did not vote Tory because of Andrew Scheer but because of his Conservative MP, Poilievre, "a good man" by Carroll's account. The obvious implicit and explicit verdict from his honour Mr. Justice Carroll - Andrew Scheer is a bad man. Why? Because he is "just good with same sex marriage". He does not whole heartedly embrace it.
Now, it should be said that Scheer is a Catholic and as such appears to take his Church's teachings seriously that marriage is between a man and a woman and not otherwise. Further, he believes his immortal soul would be jeopardized if he took the opposite position. He believes as I do that the price of participation in public life in a free and democratic society should not be the placing of your personal faith and its convictions into some sort of lockbox only to be opened on Remembrance Day or on other occasions when you are called on to pray publicly, such as a terorrist attack, a school shooting or a natural or manmade disaster.
But, even if you do not happen to share Mr. Scheer's beliefs and wish religion to be separate from the state and absent from the public square, ethics and morals still abide. Would we not prefer a man who sticks by his convictions while not foisting them on others to hold great office rather than one who would and does throw his faith (the PM, too, is a Catholic) under the bus for political expediency and makes others do the same or leave his party? Mr. Carroll if you prefer the latter sort of person to govern us, I pity you.
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