Party policy backs same-sex marriage, leader says after MP indicates opposition
OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Jack Layton said he won't tolerate "loosey-goosey views on human rights" after a Manitoba MP indicated she would break party ranks to vote against same-sex-marriage legislation.
"It's not okay in our party to have loosey-goosey views on human rights," Mr. Layton said in an interview yesterday. "This isn't a question of personal views or personal morality. It's an issue of moral rights."
Who determines whether something is a question of personal views or personal morality? What underpins this particular aspect of morality, Jack Layton? And who decides what is morally right? with which everyone in the party must agree?
But he would not say whether he would fire Churchill MP Bev Desjarlais if she defies a 1999 party resolution that calls for all New Democratic MPs to support same-sex-marriage legislation. [She has said she would defy Layton.]
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Nearly one-third of the Liberal caucus has said they would vote against the government's bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
Can you imagine the political correctness quotient of another NDP government in Ontario -- and how much it will cost taxpayers as they try to satisfy all their disadvantaged groups?
