Canada: Muslim Posters In Subways, Gideons in the Schools and Creeping Albertan Theocrats

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Comment by Godless Poutine on April 20, 2012 at 10:58pm

Thanks Brent.

Some of this is starting to come back to me.  I remember Preston Manning.

Comment by Brent Feeney on April 20, 2012 at 8:15pm

@ Godless Poutine: Social Credit was a right-wing movement popular mostly in Western Canada during the 30s. SoCreds, as they were called, dominated Alberta politics for a good 30-40 years; they were so moralistic, you couldn't even drink a beer while you were in Alberta airspace!

They were led in Alberta by Ernest Manning, the father of Preston Manning, who led the revival of SoCreds, the Reform Party, which wound up merging into today's Canadian Conservative Party (remember Stockwell Day and the current PM, Stephen Harper?).

Here's a couple of Wikipedia articles:

Social Credit Party of Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada

Social Credit Party of Alberta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta

Comment by Lorien on April 19, 2012 at 11:20am

I am. Just wish he would put my numbered balls in the damn lottery machine. He works in mysterious ways.....

Comment by Godless Poutine on April 18, 2012 at 11:39pm

Hi Brent: Don't know much about the Social Credit Party.

Lorien: Thou shall be blessed by His Most Holy Noodley Appendage!

Comment by Lorien on April 18, 2012 at 8:14pm

I wrote to all the trustees when I first heard the news of a vote and gave them my support for the ban. I also said if they were threatened into changing their vote, that the Church of the FSM is ready with material for distribution to all the children too. Maybe that is why they stuck with their original voting...... The power of the FSM!!!!!!!

Comment by Brent Feeney on April 18, 2012 at 9:11am

Looks like it's the old Social Credit Party gone bonkers in Alberta, if I remember what I've read about Canadian history.