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May 02, 2007

Fundie newsflash

Posted by Ariel Troster at 11:42 AM ET

According to last week's edition of the Hill Times, Darrel Reid, former director of Focus on the Family Canada, is now the deputy director of policy and research in the Prime Minister's Office. Reid was most recently chief of staff to Rona Ambrose (when she was Environment Minister).

Just FYI, FOTF maintains that homosexual people can be "converted" through therapy, and its U.S. leader James Dobson has referred to abortion as a "baby holocaust." Reid was (and still is) a vocal anti-gay marriage and anti-choice spokesperson. He was instrumental in setting up the FOTF-funded Institute for Marriage and Family Canada, which disguises itself as a neutral research organization, but its studies so far have attacked the usual Conservative annoyances -- universal daycare, non-hetero families, etc.

If you are curious about Reid, and just how far the Christian Right has infiltrated Parliament Hill, check out this article by Marci Macdonald from a back issue of the Walrus.

-- Cross-posted to Dykes Against Harper

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Reader comments:

Oh, I should add that this weekend, Focus on the Family Canada is hosting one of its "Love Won Out" seminars in Surrey, BC. Some of the discussion topics will include, "Prevention of Male Homosexuality," and "The Condition of Female Homosexuality." The conference's stated goal is to "defend Biblical beliefs and prevent your child from embracing this destructive way of life."

And the former director of this organization is now one of the top policy wonks at the PMO. I'm just sayin' ...

Posted by: Ariel at May 2, 2007 04:20 PM

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Strange, I was just thinking about going to Surrey this weekend. Maybe I'll go and report back. Who knows though, perhaps I'll be swayed...

Posted by: aaron at May 2, 2007 05:01 PM

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