Marci McDonald is not the only journalist who has noticed and written about the Canadian religious right this year. Author Tom Warner who is published by Between the Lines has come out with Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Ages of Rights .

Losing Control takes a hard, critical look at Canada’s social conservative (religiousright) movement and its efforts to re-establish Canada as a nation predicated on the supremacy of God. It explores the nature of social conservatism’s holy war on homosexuality and its promotion of family values and traditional marriage. It delves into the movement’s efforts to secure more morality-based state regulation of sexuality and reproduction. For social conservatives, the ideal Canada would be a place where there would be no separation of church and state, or of faith and politics.

Losing Control dissects the movement’s campaigns to eradicate secularism and “moral relativism” as defining features of contemporary Canadian governance and raises disturbing questions about the enormous political influence of the movement on Canada’s political parties—in particular, the Conservative Party government of Stephen Harper.

Tom Warner has been a gay activist for over thirty-five years. He got started in 1971 by helping to found the Gay Students’ Alliance at the University of Saskatchewan and, in 1971–1972, the Zodiac Friendship Society, which later became the Gay Community Centre of Saskatoon. After moving to Toronto in 1973, he helped to found the Gay Alliance Toward Equality and served as the group’s president from 1976 to 1977. Tom is the author of the widely acclaimed Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada.

If you have questions for the author, please add them to the comment section and we’ll ask  if Mr. Warner will stop by to answer.