Posted by Ron Gray on 6/4/2004, 12:07 am, in reply to "Invitation to Conservative Grassroots Online" How to make Canada PRO-LIFE "I wonder," mused my friend, a long-time CHP member, as he pushed some pasta across his plate. "I wonder whether Christians in the other parties aren't having more effect than we are. Bill Blaikie... Gerry Breitkreuz - he's been able to introduce a bill to define a 'person' from the moment of conception; that's exactly what CHP policy is. But look: he got it onto the floor of the House by being in an 'elect-able' party. I know this man well, and I know his mind: he's determined to serve God, and the Pro-Life cause is very close to his heart. But he's making a common mistake. It's the same mistake that fuels the "Liberals for Life" movement: the wistful hope that - if we can just get someone inside the parties in the House - we might be able to make a difference by "working from within." But Liberals for Life have been siphoning off pro-Life support for two decades. The result? Zero. Zip. Nada. Nothing. It will be the same with the Alliance Private Member's Bill: it'll be defeated by the Liberal steamroller. (If the Alliance can't get Liberals to vote for a policy that's out of their own 'Red Book', what chance is there that they'll vote for something - like the right to life of the pre-born child - that they've been fighting against for decades?) This common mistake arises out of a misunderstanding of where and how political changes come about. The changes aren't made first in the House of Commons; they only show up there. First, political changes must occur in the public mind and heart. It's a matter of education - and patience. When the public is ready to change, the politicians follow - and then the laws change. The role of the politicians is not to originate change in the House, but to represent it on the hustings, so there will be a channel for public opinion when it's ready. A Pro-Life politician in a party that doesn't share his convictions - like Gerry Breitkreuz in the Alliance - is a fish out of water. The party won't change to suit him; he'll have the same fate on the Opposition benches that Tom Wappel has had on the Government side: he'll be tolerated, but not supported. So how can we make the changes needed to end the ghastly 'Silent Holocaust' of abortion? We pray. We pray that God will change hearts and minds. And while we wait, we stand as Pro-Life politicians in the only Pro-Life party on the Federal scene: the CHP. That way, we maintain a channel that public opinion can flow into when Canadians finally regain their sanity. And while we wait, we talk - patiently and logically - whenever we get a chance to be heard in public; we point out the absurdity and the gross immorality of killing our own children. We cannot force the desired change on an unwilling nation; we can only make sure there will be a principled place for them to come to, when they come to their senses. In the meantime, we can (and must) speak the truth in love. And we can (and must) pray. By RON GRAY
December 10, 2001 - Vol. 8 No. 48
CHP National Leader
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