Stephen Harper, Promise Keepers, and "we might have a war"

From the Globe & Mail: "... Mr. Harper was introduced at the news conference by David Sweet, the Tory candidate in Ancaster-Dundas- Flamborough- Westdale. Mr. Sweet is a former president of Promise Keepers Canada, an evangelical Christian organization that believes homosexuality is a sin.

"In a November, 2001, edition of Christian Week magazine, he wrote: '[M]en are natural influencers, whether we like it or not. There's a particular reason why Jesus called men only. It's not that women aren't co-participators. It's because Jesus knew women would naturally follow.'

"Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Harper shared the stage with Harold Albrecht, the Conservative candidate in Kitchener-Conestoga, at a rally attended by about 800 enthusiastic supporters.

"Mr. Albrecht is pastor and founder of the Pathway Community Church. In June of 2004, he wrote in a letter to a Kitchener newspaper: 'If one is truly committed to the marriage vows of fidelity, these same-sex marriages would succeed in wiping out an entire society in just one generation.'

"When reporters tried to question Mr. Albrecht about his views after the rally, Conservative handlers blocked them from getting close. Mr. Albrecht was hustled into a kitchen where he stood alone as the news media were told he was too busy to speak with them."

O, the Promise Keepers -- another wretched boys' club that appeals to all the venal, immature, crybaby whims of sophomoric male egos. These heroes are all into "manhood" and the subjugation of women, and simply being all-around unsmiling self-righteous pricks to their families. In the past year or two, I've known a couple of people who have had Promise Keepers in their lives, and these god warriors showed themselves to be nothing more than wife-beating assholes motivated by Scripture rather than beer. One of these gimps was a whore-monger who once chastized his brother-in-law -- my friend -- for saying naughty words while in traffic. My friend asked his Promise Keeper brother-in-law if he required the same of the hookers he frequented.

Where you have religion, you have the kindling for insanity. Where you have fundamentalist religiosity, you have the hell-bright flames of catastrophe.

From Rigorous Intuition we learn that "[l]ast night in an interview on CBC, Stephen Harper said he couldn't promise that a Conservative government wouldn't take Canada into deficit because "we might have a war." OK, it's not too late, we have finally learned behind which Christ Stephen Harper throws his allegiance -- and this Christ's first name ain't Jesus.

Before some knee-jerk conservative accuses me of being a "Paul Martin Liberal," let's take it from the top:

No party should govern for 12 years, I don't care who they are. The fact that it's the Liberal Party in question here makes this statement all the more true and pressing. The Liberals must go.

As for the NDP, their ideas about "positive discrimination" are positively racist -- against the caucasian people for whom they have such distaste, but even more so for the people of color whom they so fervently embrace. The NDP doesn't believe in filling government positions based on a person's competence. This is where their patent racism comes into the play. The NDP believes that caucasians -- white men, in particular -- are so superior to all other races, that the rules must be skewed and positive discrimination instituted to give inferiors a shot. This is outrageous. It's bullshit and it's insulting to people on every side of the political spectrum. As a Canadian citizen, I want to see the most qualified people working for the government. I don't care about their country of origin, their gender, their preference for music -- I want their competence. The NDP seems to think that running the government involves posing for rainbow coalition photo-ops all day long. It does not.

But Stephen Harper. O, Stephen Harper, you ulterior-motive, hidden-agenda, war-monger-in-waiting, conservative's Conservative. Somehow Canadians forget that it was a conservative government that saddled the country with the GST. Sure, those were other conservatives. So, if I run as a Liberal candidate in the next election, will this same rubbery logic allow me to say, "I'm the other kind of Liberal"? Of course not. Brian Mulroney and his mafia of swine set the tone for the Corruption of Chrétien. Tory Mike Harris treated Ontario like a Promise Keeper treats his wife, but Harris was one of those other conservatives.

At this point in time, Canada's greatest problem is its culture of corruption, incompetence and patronage in Ottawa. Our political process and machinations are a disgrace and an insult to all thinking people. Add conservatism to this steaming fecal stew and the country will be enveloped by a whole new stench.

"[W]e might have a war" says Stephen Harper.

No matter the results of Monday's election, I think Canadians should mobilize and surround Ottawa, carrying torches, rakes, and pitchforks, as villagers did when they converged on Doctor Frankenstein's castle in the old Boris Karloff movies. The horror in those old films was canned and cartoonish by today's standards. The horror festering in Ottawa is the Andromeda Strain.