Opposing Secular Humanist Tyranny — Why Is Canada Lagging Behind?

In the US, a group of prominent Christian leaders and scholars have issued the Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto declaring firm opposition to current and future laws infringing upon the sanctity of life, marriage, faith, and liberty. In Australia, Cardinal George Pell, warned his fellow citizens about the threats to fundamental human rights such as freedom of religion and conscience, arising from the modern scramble to prohibit discrimination against people based on "sexual orientation" or "gender identity". What about Canada? When are we going to see our spiritual leaders making a stand against the star chambers, which abrogate our freedoms for the sake of their secular humanist utopias?

Think about it:

Cardinal Pell opened by discussing one instance of the problem: the current attitude of the Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC). A recent paper delivered by senior members of the HRC, he said, begins with the words: "The compatibility of religious freedom with human rights is the subject of the most comprehensive study ever undertaken in Australia in this area."

"Let us spell this out," said the Cardinal. "The clear meaning of these words is that religious freedom is not a human right and may not be compatible with human rights."

The same paper, he continued, suggests that the interaction of religious groups in the public sphere ought to be moderated by "the hand of government, even if gentle and gloved."

"No doubt we are to be reassured by the prospect of a nanny state, rather than the jack-boot," Cardinal Pell said. But all of this, he continued, "simply underscores the need for a different sort of inquiry; not into whether religious freedom is compatible with human rights, but into whether this enquiry of the Human Rights Commission is compatible with human rights."

The problem for the HRC, he said, is that "rights to life, to marriage, to family; the recognition of the family based on marriage as the fundamental unit of society; the rights of parents to determine the moral and religious education of their children; and the rights to freedom of religion, belief, and conscience, are all recognized by the major international human rights agreements."

But such rights "stand squarely in the road of the radical autonomy project which the extreme left, the anti-religious left is pushing."

"This is the main reason why these inconvenient rights have been read-down, reinterpreted and displaced by other, newer 'rights' such as those to abortion, euthanasia, anti-discrimination and same-sex marriage."

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You can find a full transcript of Cardinal Pell's speech here. Now, isn't Canada facing the very same issues? So where's a Canadian version of the Manhattan Declaration? What keeps our spiritual leaders from issuing one?