Sid
02-13-2007, 11:06 AM
Looks like the Looney Left in Canada are on a roll:
Canada's ideological left, confident of its control of academe, the Supreme Court (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54186#) and the federal Liberal Party, appeared this month ready to declare war on its most formidable enemy of all, namely conservative Christian churches that refuse to make their teachings conform to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as defined by the Supreme Court.
"Religious institutions that systematically discriminate against women are recognized at least implicitly by government," she wrote. "They enjoy special tax privileges. Religious institutions do not pay property tax and most receive charitable status from the federal government. Does it matter that the Catholic Church, which has special entitlements given to it by the state and benefits from its charitable tax status, refuses to ordain women as priests?"
But since there is no such thing as a Canadian Catholic Church, but only a Catholic Church, its view of the priesthood cannot be decided by a circle of politically appointed lawyers in a relatively insignificant country called Canada. So the church in Canada will disobey the court, giving rise to the second case in which the church's tax status is challenged. If that case also succeeds, then similar cases would follow in which the teachings of other churches on various moral questions would be similarly ordered to conform to the Charter, rather than the Bible.
Canada: Domination of church by state (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54186)
Canada's ideological left, confident of its control of academe, the Supreme Court (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54186#) and the federal Liberal Party, appeared this month ready to declare war on its most formidable enemy of all, namely conservative Christian churches that refuse to make their teachings conform to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as defined by the Supreme Court.
"Religious institutions that systematically discriminate against women are recognized at least implicitly by government," she wrote. "They enjoy special tax privileges. Religious institutions do not pay property tax and most receive charitable status from the federal government. Does it matter that the Catholic Church, which has special entitlements given to it by the state and benefits from its charitable tax status, refuses to ordain women as priests?"
But since there is no such thing as a Canadian Catholic Church, but only a Catholic Church, its view of the priesthood cannot be decided by a circle of politically appointed lawyers in a relatively insignificant country called Canada. So the church in Canada will disobey the court, giving rise to the second case in which the church's tax status is challenged. If that case also succeeds, then similar cases would follow in which the teachings of other churches on various moral questions would be similarly ordered to conform to the Charter, rather than the Bible.
Canada: Domination of church by state (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54186)