Conservative Arrogance 11

"Some people point out that there is a small element of clergy in the NDP. Yes, this is true. But these are clergy who, while very committed to the church, believe that it made a historic error in adopting Christian theology." -- Stephen Harper, speech to The Council for National Policy, Montreal, 1997.


2 comments:

RuralSandi said...

Although I'm not an NDP supporter - thought I show you another one indicating the extremes of Harper's thinking:

"The NDP could be described as basically a party of liberal Democrats, but it's actually worse than that, I have to say. And forgive me jesting again, but the NDP is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men."

- Conservative leader Stephen Harper, then vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, in a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing American think tank.

Mark said...

I think I have that one scheduled to come up. LOL.

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