Canadian Catholics Beware

Miscellaneous OK, so you will have to bare with me as I wander off the beaten path some more. When I read this article I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. Clearly this former professor Bob Ferguson does not practice any sort of faith or religion, unless you include multicultural or humanism. Now that some "intellectual" made this statement in Canada, it is only time before someone says it here. That is one reason why it may be relevant to people who live in SD63. This is really about liberty, not religion. If there was ever a way to unite a devote Christian and Muslim, imposing such laws against all religions would do it, but notice the Catholics were the ones singled out. What would have happened if someone said the same thing and then singled out Muslims? Here is one of the more absurd excerpts:

"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. " Ferguson continued, "Of course the Vatican wouldn't like the changes, but they would come to accept them in time as a fact of life in Canada. Indeed I suspect many clergy would welcome the external pressure."

I always love "external pressure" to shape my church's doctrine.