Christian activists capturing Tory races
This is why I think organized religion should NOT be tax exempt. They use the money they should be paying to the government to push a religious agenda. They use their built in constituencies to forward the religious message. Preaching from the pulpit ... using the sheeple as fodder for their ambition. They claim to be helping people but their idea of helping is to further their own personal agenda.
I have no objection to a religious person running for office and it pains me that I even have to make that distinction. What upsets me is that the neo con activists described in the article usually run to push a religious agenda and they do so with the active support of huge organizations who's very existance depends on their continuing tax exempt status. I think that's wrong.
These kinds of candidates are not just regular people devout in their faith, letting it guide their decisions to better serve their constituents, no, these guys are running deliberately to HIJACK the political process to push their OWN brand of religious dogma ... they are NOT there to serve their constituents they are there to advance the radicaL RIGHT CAUSE at the EXPENSE of their constituents. The sad thing is they let them.
Once THAT line is crossed and I think it is clearly being crossed here then it's time to rethink the position that organized religion holds in our society and the rules governing their involvement in politics not the least of which is their tax free status. The time to do that is NOW ... before they use this influence unduly to gain a stranglehold on our government.
I don't want Canada to become a theocracy. I don't think many people do. But the risk is there nonetheless and I hope we don't sleepwalk our way toward one as it appears the US is doing.
IA
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