Cheri DiNovo

2006-11-30T09:12:00Z

202.93.8.10: Bearcunt, you lying sack of crap. Check the records at Emmanuel and look throught the Toronto Star archives. You NDP swine will say anything to protect DiNovo

The Rev. Dr. '''Cheri DiNovo''' is a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[United Church of Canada|United Church]] minister and politician. She formerly headed the Emmanuel-Howard Park congregation in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], and was elected to the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] in a [[by-election]] on September 14, 2006, as a candidate of the [[New Democratic Party of Ontario|New Democratic Party]].

A progressive, [[social justice]] oriented minister who favours inclusion of marginalized groups, including women, [[LGBT]] people and the poor and [[homelessness|homeless]] into the mainstream of Christian life. DiNovo enrolled in Emmanuel College in January of 1992. Her estranged second husband was killed in a motorcycle accident in May of 1992. DiNovo and her rabid followers have often misrepresented these facts.

DiNovo also hosts a weekly radio show, ''The Radical Reverend'', on Toronto's [[CIUT-FM]]. Her book ''Qu(e)erying Evangelism: Growing a Community from the Outside In'' won the [[Lambda Literary Award]] in the Spirituality category for 2006.

==Politics==

DiNovo defeated Liberal [[Sylvia Watson]] in the [[September 14]], [[2006]] by-election to replace [[Gerard Kennedy]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]]. She officially took her seat in the Assembly on [[September 25]].

During the campaign, DiNovo acknowledged having been both a "street kid" and a user of recreational [[drugs]] in her youth. She was criticized for this by Watson's campaign, despite the fact that earlier in 2006, Liberal cabinet minister [[George Smitherman]] had been commended for his honesty by the Liberal Party when he publicly acknowledged his own past use of recreational drugs. The [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberals]] also alleged that DiNovo endorsed the church ordination of [[pedophile]]s and axe murderers in ''Qu(e)erying Evangelism'', when in fact she did not, and took DiNovo's past comments about Canadian murderer [[Karla Homolka]] out of context to misrepresent them as having compared Homolka to a [[Jesus Christ|Christ]]-like figure, where instead they were used in reference to the dangers of scapegoating. They also neglected to mention DiNovo's expression of sympathy for Homolka's victims' families and the undue suffering she believed the media circus surrounding Karla was causing them. Many accused the Liberals of conducting a [[smear campaign]]. [http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20060925/queens_park_060925/20060925?hub=TorontoHome]

On [[October 23]], [[2006]], a ''[[Toronto Star]]'' column by [[Carol Goar]] credited DiNovo as having brought a new clarity and assertiveness to the NDP caucus' voice in the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Since entering the Assembly, DiNovo has pressured the government on a variety of poverty-related issues, including raising [[minimum wage]] and [[welfare]] rates in the province, creating more affordable housing and ending the government's tax clawback of the federal child benefit supplement. [http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1161381023760]

==External links==
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* [http://www.cheridinovo.com/ Cheri DiNovo]
* [http://www.cheridinovo.ca/ DiNovo's NDP candidacy site]

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