Pope Benedict recently told Ontario Bishops that Canada has excluded 'God from the public sphere" with laws supporting same sex marriage and abortion. He went on to say that Canadian Catholic politicians are ignoring the values of their religion yielding to "ephemeral social trends and the spurious demands of opinoion polls" "And that, in the names of tolerance, Canada has had to endure the redefinition of spouse and, in the name of freedom of choice, it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children.".
Canada has always demanded the separation of church and state.
We have freedom of religion, however we don't have a "state religion" in Canada. The government does not interfere with the various methods of spiritual rites in the many religions in the country. Similarly no one religion should be able to dictate to state politicians how they should vote on an issue.
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2006-09-21
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