Everyone including members of the religious right should have equal opportunity to live their personal choice of life style restricted only by the rules and regulations of our democratic society which should not be discriminatory in any way. Elected representatives in our society do have an opportunity to push their own agenda onto everyone. They also have opportunity to do right thing. Every citizen has a right to vote. Many representatives get elected because they get their supporters out to vote for them.
Considerable effort is made to have equal numbers of voters in each riding.
Stockwell Day of the other Red Deer riding easily got elected with 4688 votes out of 8450 cast. But there was 12254 votes cast in the other riding. This difference of 3800 votes suggests to me that Day got his supporters out and at least 3800 voters who maybe would not have voted for him just stayed home. Until this happens, getting yourself and all your friends in the GLBT community out to vote could easily win or loose any election. We often cannot write letters to politicians or newspapers because it could easily cost us our job or apartment.