Dear Winnipeg Free Press, my name is Deborah not Debra

Please, never spell my name Debra.
You can call me Deb, or Debby, or even Debbie, but that's not how my parents spelled it, or Deborah. But not Debra!!!!!

For Catholic journalist and blogger Debra Gyapong, it wasn't just the issue of same-sex marriage that cost Liberals support from Roman Catholics, but their "ramming the redefinition of marriage through Parliament."

She also points to the Liberal Party's "partisan messaging that painted traditional marriage supporters as un-Canadian and anti-Charter, and that attacked Christian voters in general."

"Self-inflicted" wounds

John McKay, the Liberal Member of Parliament who represents the Ontario riding of Scarborough-Guildwood, agrees with those sentiments.

McKay acknowledges that support from Catholics and other church-goers for the Liberal Party is "bleeding away." What's worse, he adds, the wound was "self-inflicted."

"You can disagree with someone, but you don't have to insult them," he says of the times when the Liberal Party had different views from some religiously-inclined Canadians. "There are times that the Liberal Party has been disagreeable in its disagreements."