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Today, one of the Ontario PC Party leadership candidates endorsed by Campaign Life Coalition withdrew from the race. Monte McNaughton announced he was dropping out, and endorsed Patrick Brown instead whom we also endorsed. The announcement alluded to the fact that although his membership sales numbers were impressive, it would likely not be enough to put him in the winner’s seat.

Monte McNaughton heroically led the fight against Kathleen Wynne’s age-inappropriate sex-education curriculum, for the sake of defending parental rights and the innocence of young children. Monte did this without support from his caucus, and even in the face of opposition from some PC members. In return for having defended parental rights, Monte suffered character assassination attempts by the Liberal Premier and her allies in the mainstream media.

Although it is sad to see a man of such principle withdraw from the race, the pro-life and pro-family movement still has a very strong candidate to support. Patrick Brown, the other leadership candidate whom CLC endorsed, now faces a head-to-head fight against the pro-abortion Christine Elliott.

From the beginning of the leadership race, CLC endorsed both Brown and McNaughton equally. Patrick has a perfect voting record in the House of Commons with respect to life and family issues. View his voting record here. If Brown wins, Ontarians will finally have a party leader and hopefully one day soon, a Premier, who is not hostile to traditionally-principled families.

Like McNaughton, Patrick Brown has spoken out repeatedly against the controversial Sex Ed curriculum. Brown and McNaughton were the only PC Leadership candidates who spoke at the February 24th parental protest against the curriculum, which occurred at Queen’s Park.

On the other hand, CLC believes that Elliott cannot be trusted on this issue. She is the PC member who came running to the defense of the sex-ed curriculum at the bidding of Liberal Education Minister Liz Sandals. Read the news article here in which she defended the curriculum from an accusation that it had been influenced by a convicted child pornographer with a “grooming” agenda.

Brown has publicly argued that the curriculum is age-inappropriate and that parents are the only ones who have a right to form moral values regarding sexuality in their children. His speech at Queen’s Park stated vigorously that the State has no business trying to teach values to children which contradict the parents’ values.

Another reason for distrusting Elliott is that she's a strong supporter of the very same Gender Identity Theory which Liberals plan to teach 8 year olds, starting in September. She co-sponsored the NDP’s Bill 33, dubbed by critics as the “Bathroom Bill”. On the basis of the disputed Gender Identity Theory, Bill 33 invented a legal right for biological males to enter girls washrooms and change rooms, by simply claiming that they are women in their minds.

Given Christine Elliot’s support for the same theory of Gender Fluidity that is so entrenched in the Wynne/Levin curriculum, parents cannot expect that she will put up any fight whatsoever against the curriculum, should she win the PC Leadership race. CLC believes that when the need for parental votes is gone, Elliott’s lip service to parental rights will also disappear.

We cannot overstate how important it is for everyone who joined the PC Party for the purpose of voting for Monte McNaughton, to now give their full support at the May 3 or May 7th Leadership meetings to Patrick Brown. We cannot let Christine Elliott win because it would be a disaster for parental rights.

To read Monte’s announcement click here.