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It is time for all freedom loving Canadians to speak out.

Absolutely not the time to be silent



There are many who believe we are quite probably living in the most dangerous time in world history.

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We are living in troubling times worldwide whether you are talking about a fragile economy, the threat of radical terrorists, the possibility of nuclear war, increased poverty and disease or a dozen other depressing events that could be mentioned. I love Canada and am inclined to believe we live in the best country on the planet yet we would be most naive to close our eyes to certain disturbing trends in our own country that if ignored could well define a darker future for Canada and for our children. Recent troubling actions that can be interpreted in no other way than a direct attack on freedom of speech and religion should concern every Canadian. These "fundamental "freedoms are enshrined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms yet there are those in this country who continue to attack them. When a Christian university is targeted by lawyers for their Christian values on marriage, their proposed law school condemned and "black listed" and their graduates banned from practicing law in certain parts of Canada simply because they are "christian" every Canadian regardless of political stripes, faith or non-faith should be disturbed. When a Member of Parliament is mocked, ridiculed and attacked because he believes in creationism as opposed to Darwinism how else can such intolerance be viewed as anything other than an attack on freedom of speech and religion. When a lawyer in presenting his case for Physician-Assisted Suicide to the Supreme Court of Canada states that Christians should keep their views to themselves and leave "secular Canada" alone it is no time for people of faith or any Canadian to remain silent. The notion that Christians should remain silent about injustice was the farthest thing from the mind of Martin Luther King when he launched his heroic reforms on behalf of black America. William Wilberforce was an English politician, philanthropist and devout christian who led the great movement that eventually abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, then Premier of New Brunswick and a devout christian and one of the thirty-three Fathers of Confederation got his idea of "dominion" in calling our country the Dominion of Canada straight from Psalm 72:8 in the bible. Would anyone suggest that because Tommy Douglas was a Baptist Minister he never should have given us universal medicare? A very wise king once wrote that there is "a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak." It is time for all freedom loving Canadians to speak out.


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