Point taken Willie-O, although I admit, I was being facetous, but only just, regarding my unkind remark about the good people of Regina-Lumsden-Lake Centre, when I said Larry was "only reflecting the views of his voters".

Homophobia runs deep within the religous right and the left there and is exclusive to neither. I have been exposed to enough of the good old boys of Saskatchewan from the full political spectrum, to know that if you push a few buttons, the veneer of tolerance and civility cracks and quite often reveals some very ugly crap. However, to give some credit, I doubt Larry paraded the full extremity of his views when he was running for office.

I've have been exposed to enough dear old Saskatchewan aunties too, who would still argue, "But Dear, he's such a nice man....he stands for the values the family and he's a minister too!" regardless of what he spewed. Larry would have to be caught in front of them with a chainsaw in his hands and body parts scattered about, before you could shake their viewpoint or vote. And they would still declare," I don't understand, he was such a lovely man". Within our family, we used to call it prairie brain damage.