Election Campaign In Ontario Begins Today: Ontarians Urged To Make Life The Central Decisive Factor In Voting

Today, September 10, marks the beginning of an election campaign in Ontario.

There's only one political party in the province, the Family Coalition Party of Ontario, which claims to be unreservedly pro-life and pro-family.

They are doing their best trying to run a full slate of candidates (so far they've got 72 out of 107).

Vote Life, Canada! urges the people of Ontario to very carefully examine every political candidate’s position, regardless of party affiliation, on the legalized killing of children in Canada. Citizens are urged to follow the guidelines and principles contained in the Vote Life, Canada! booklet “How to Vote Life” which can be found online and is available as a pdf file.

When Canadians find a candidate properly qualified for political office, in accordance with the Vote Life, Canada! guidelines, they are urged to do everything they possibly can to ensure the successful election of that candidate.

From the Vote Life, Canada! website:

Q7. But aren't there all kinds of other issues in Canada which demand the Christian's attention and which require political attention? Isn't abortion just one more issue?

A. It's true there are a multitude of important issues which ought to concern the Christian, for example poverty, gambling, pornography, and immigration. But consider this question. Under what conceivable standard could you lump the killing of innocent children with the issue of gambling? Or with immigration? Or even with poverty? If you walked out onto the street and saw a young child being attacked, perhaps killed, how many options do you have? Is it simply another “issue” which you can take or leave, about which you can feel passionate or not depending on your experience, background or special interests?

To look at this another way, we commonly recognize various levels at which we must address the needs of our fellow man in a civilized society. We may work among the poor, volunteer to visit the sick and elderly, participate in an organized protest against pornography, sit on a committee that advocates for the protection of a refugee, or otherwise work to address any number of other 'issues.' But again, if in the midst of one of those activities we were alerted to the fact that a young child was being attacked and viciously killed, we would immediately drop what we were doing and run to the child's aid. We would call the police and immediately phone for an ambulance in order to save the child's life. We address different needs with differing levels of priority.

Abortion is simply child killing. It is of an entirely different order than a multitude of other issues because it deals with a fundamental principle and not simply a policy. Notice in the previous example that there was no disagreement whatever on what needed to be done in the incident of a child being viciously attacked. There is room for disagreement among Christians on how to address [i.e. policy] many important questions of justice. But on the principle of life and death, every civilized human being must choose life for an innocent neighbour, particularly a defenseless child.

More especially for the Christian, God's revelation pertaining to the sanctity of human life demands that we hold the right to life and the protection of life as central, defining, and objective principles, on which we have a clear word from Scripture.

Suppose in questioning a political candidate, he/she were to say to you, “I support terrorism [or slavery, or genocide].” Would you say, “I disagree with you on terrorism [or owning slaves, or killing Jews], but tell me about your plans for reforming Canada's health care?”

Wouldn't that be ridiculous? Rather, you would be immediately shocked and consider that candidate as disqualified from serving the public interests. Support for terrorism, which demands the killing of innocent citizens, is radically inconsistent with public service.

Is it any different with abortion? No. Abortion is no less violent than terrorism. Any candidate who says abortion should be kept legal disqualifies him/herself from public service. We need look no further; we need pay no attention to what that candidate says on other issues. Support for abortion, in any respect and to any degree, is enough for us to decide not to vote for such a person.

If a politician cannot respect the life of a little baby, how is he or she supposed to respect yours?