Robert Risling
Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education - AB
Electoral District: Elected at-large
Bio
CLC rating: Pro-life, pro-family
Rating Comments: Rev. Deacon Risling gave perfect answers to CLC's election questionnaire.
Position: Trustee
Percentage in last election: 14% (2017)
Victory margin last election: 4.2% (2017)
Religion / Faith: Catholic
Contact
Parliamentary Office
Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education
1251 1st Ave. SW
Medicine Hat, Alberta
T1A 8B4
Tel: 403-527-2292 (board phone #)
Constituency Offices
1251 1st Ave
Medicine Hat, Alberta
T1A 3X1
Tel: 403-527-2292
Fax: 403-529-0917
Here is Robert Risling's voting record relating to life and family issues:
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Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Robert Risling on October 6, 2017.
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| Will you personally uphold and work toward the public promotion of total fidelity to the faith and moral teachings of the Catholic Church? (Current examples include the illicitness of abortion, contraception and homosexual practice) | Yes |
| Will you work to ensure that Catholic schools do not invite guest speakers who have publicly expressed positions that contradict the morality and teaching of the Church, no matter how great their achievements in politics, business, sports, science or the arts? | Yes (from 2017) |
| Will you work to ensure that educational materials that enter the premises of Catholic schools (e.g., library resources, curriculum texts, awareness campaigns, flyers) and all approved school activities are consistent with and do not undermine the morality and teachings of the Church? | Yes (from 2017) |
| Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is an infection that is transmitted through sex. Will you therefore oppose HPV vaccination in schools because it sends the message to students, teachers and parents that obedience to Church teaching on abstinence before marriage is neither expected nor necessary? | Yes |
| Will you actively promote and defend the teaching of Catholic doctrine, the importance of prayer and a regular sacramental life? | Yes (from 2017) |
| Will you work against any attempt to expand the sex-ed program in the Catholic Schools which is contrary to Church teaching, such as the one which included oral sex, masturbation and homosexuality, recently offered by the Ministry? | Yes |
| Will you work to ensure that your Catholic school board enacts a policy requiring all agents and employees of the board to uphold the rights of custodial parents to direct and control the education of, and any medical treatment provided to, their dependent children attending its schools? | Yes (from 2017) |
| Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion*? (*Note: a surgical or medical intervention designed to prevent the death of the mother but which results in the unintended and undesired death of the pre-born child, is not an abortion) | No (from 2017) |
| Will you work to ensure that your Board publicly promotes total fidelity to the faith and moral teachings of the Catholic Church? (Current examples include the illicitness of abortion, contraception and homosexual practice) | Yes (from 2017) |
| Will you oppose sex-ed programs which are contrary to Church teaching? | Yes (from 2017) |
| Given that the Gay Pride flag is a controversial political symbol which contradicts Church teaching on marriage & human sexuality, will you oppose any and all proposals to fly the Gay Pride flag at Catholic schools, at the board office, or to acknowledge and celebrate June as Pride month? | survey question not yet sent |
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