Campaign Life Coalition

Campaign Life Coalition

The Campaign Life Coalition (often called Campaign Life) is a Canadian socially conservative group, primarily associated with the pro-life movement. It is largely centred in the province of Ontario. The organization has existed since the late 1970s, and it has long been active in political campaigns.

Campaign Life has supported politicians from different political parties, including Liberals such as Tom Wappel and Paul Szabo and Conservatives such as Stockwell Day and Maurice Vellacott. It has sometimes been accused of entrism, attempting to co-opt political parties for its own purposes.

At the provincial level, Campaign Life has been active in supporting the Family Coalition Party.

In addition to opposing abortion, Campaign Life also launched a vocal campaign against same-sex marriage in 2004-05.

In 2005, the coalition criticised the Conservative Party for nominating same-sex marriage supporters John Baird and Peter Kent to run as candidates. [ [http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060810.html Campaign Life Coalition Newsletter Decries Favoring of New Pro-Abortion, Pro-Gay Candidates By Conservative Leadership ] ] It expressed support for John Pacheco's "independent conservative" candidacy against Baird in Ottawa West—Nepean, and for Greg Watrich's independent candidacy against sitting Tory MP James Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam), a supporter of Bill C-38. [ [http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05122209.html True Conservatives Running as Independents against Anti-Family, Anti-Life ‘Conservative’ Candidates ] ]

One of its project is LifeSiteNews, a news website "dedicated to issues of culture, life, and family" that was created in 1997. [ [http://www.lifesitenews.com/aboutlifesite/index.html About LifeSiteNews.com] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/ Campaign Life Coalition]
* [http://www.lifesite.net/ LifeSiteNews operated by CLC]


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