THE NEW DIVISION

I once heard this phrase: A division between church and state

Hmm

Here we have the sitting party that call themselves Conservative. But that's after they were the Alliance Party. And that was after they were the Reform Party. I remember, years ago, video taping a closed rally for a Reform MP. Closed, mind you. I wasn't working for the media. We were just taping the session for the MP's personal use. He made it very clear that he was talking about things he would never normally discuss in public. One of those things was his insistence that everything he did for his party, everything he did as a politician, had to be connected to the the Church, to God, to his religion. He was quite adamant that he saw an important part of his agenda to bring God into Parliament and into the country

But we all know that the Conservative Party is NOT the Reform party. They don't have the share the same convictions. They have no hidden agenda.

Uh huh

Two quick items

We all know that religious organizations are opposed to abortion. Presently in this country women have that right. A government would be quite foolhardy to openly try to alter that in any way. And doing so would require public debate, a vote in Parliament, etc. It would most certainly become an election issue. But there are many things governments do (besides suspending Parliament apparently) that do not require debate or votes. Like all but demolishing the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health which used to be called Planned Parenthood which means that prenatal health care, emergency contraception and other maternity-related research and education have been gutted. Do we think certain religious groups may be please by this?

Governments can also do things like take the most pro Israel stand of any gov't in the history of this country. And by pro Israel, I mean anti-Palestinian, lumping all of those peoples in with "Muslim extremists" and for the very first time, abstaining from voting on the recognition of Palestine as an independent state. Christians aligning with Jews against Muslims. ... the head of the Canadian Bnai Brith praised Prime Minister Harper for not being an "objective broker" and for his religious convictions

The division of church and state. Let's have another hmmm

Yeh, this is definitely the new division