Mary Eileen at Stand in the Trenches returns with
bad news for religious freedom in Canada. Oh, and yes, I'm still alive, and I remember how to blog, and when I read this article, I remembered why I wanted to blog in the first place.
You can see why:
CBC Radio has aired a commentary by a retired professor from the Royal Military College calling for state control over religion, specifically Catholicism. While parliamentarians dismissed warnings by numerous religious leaders and experts that such laws would lead to religious persecution, former professor Bob Ferguson has called for "legislation to regulate the practice of religion."
"Given the inertia of the Catholic Church, perhaps we could encourage reform by changing the environment in which all religions operate," Ferguson began his commentary in measured tones yesterday. "Couldn't we insist that human rights, employment and consumer legislation apply to them as it does other organizations? Then it would be illegal to require a particular marital status as a condition of employment or to exclude women from the priesthood."
When the tenets of Faith are designed and codified by government bureaucracy, no man is free.
