The "Jihad" intramural soccer team sponsored by the Islamic association at Duke was deemed to be named perfectly appropriately according to the liberals running the campus.
It does get a bit tiresome, I admit. I "have to" designate a spare office here at Calgary HQ for a "prayer room", and I "have to" have a foot washing basin installed in one of the men's rooms.
I wouldn't have a problem if the Washington Redskins wanted to change their name to the Washington Crusaders, although I think the Washington Nanticokes would be better.
We have to do the same thing here in Toronto at the financial institutions. The list of demands is endless.... but you do not want to be dragged in front of the of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) by rejecting them.
somewhere in there, the concept of separation of Church and State got lost, especially now when the State has their greedy hands in just about everything. If you are doing anything, you probably have some connection to the State. If our founding mothers realized how it was gong to go, they would have said, "Separation of everyday normal activities and State." I say, "founding mothers, because, behind every good father is a good mother."
The left needs to treat Islam the same way it treats Christians, with total disdain. I have no problem with that. Until then it's just more hypocrisy from the left along with cowardice.
There is no separation of Church and State in Canada. "The Queen remains the Head of State in Canada even though she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England." The Canadian Charter does guarantee. Freedom of religion under the Charter means that Canadians are free to practice their religions in a non-harmful fashion (e.g. the Multani case), while freedom from religion means that Canadians cannot be forced to adopt a religious practice (e.g. the Big M Drug Mart case)." This is different than having a separation of Church and State which is not provided in the Canadian Charter. http://www.theccfblog.ca/2012/12/no-constitutional-separation-of-church.html There is a growing voice calling for the separation of Church and State in Canada but no one sees it coming soon. Church and State, It's About Time You Separated http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/doug-thomas/canada-separation-church-state_b_2598352.html "Some time ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper observed that separation of church and state is an American constitutional concept and does not apply to the Canadian constitution. He went on to say that separation of church and state in Canada has meant, traditionally, that the government will not interfere with religion. The sad thing is that he is right. There are no clauses in the Constitution Act of 1867 (the BNA Act to those born before 1982) that separate church and state. Indeed, our Head of State, the Monarchy, is also the Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith. Since that Monarchy is directly involved with the Church of England and, by extension, the Anglican Church of Canada, the best the Crown can do is to tolerate all other churches (and atheism) in Canada."
I will note that the United States is one of the few western countries with a separation of Church and State. Many western countries also have a Church Tax. For example in Germany, "Taxpayers, whether Roman Catholic, Protestant or members of other tax-collecting communities, pay an amount equal to between 8% (in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg) and 9% (in the rest of the country) of their income tax to the church or other community to which they belong." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax
don't mention the word "tax" or I go on my rant. When you think about it, for most of us, our only interaction with the government is once a year in the form of taxes. If I was King, I would completely eliminate all tax free non profit organizations and eliminate any tax exemption for charitable donations. Don't get me started, this was a nice "church" thread.