道德和良心的权利:加拿大(最)沉默和被压迫的少数派
Joyce 03/26 3983大约三分之一的加拿大人每周参加宗教團契活動。这是大约1200万加拿大人。
有宗教信仰的加拿大人建造和经营了医院,養老院和护理院,戒酒和戒賭康复中心,食品银行,怀孕婦女护理院,无家可归者的棲息之所,包括"Inn from the Cold" ,为妇女及其子女建造了臨時居所。他们建立和管理教會学校,青年外展中心,夏令营,健身房,高等教育机构,广播电台和电视和录音工作室。加拿大人宗教信仰也组织和主办了老年人的午餐和晚餐,針對雙職工子女儿童的课后班,金融和债务管理研讨会,英语作为第二语言课程,高中和学位课程,以及更多。
这不包括成千上万的教堂,教堂,会议室和大教堂,以及加拿大人聚集在一起的犹太教堂,清真寺和寺庙。每個星期,有信仰的加拿大人聚集在一起崇拜他们的神,舉行庄严的婚礼,葬礼,或者欢迎新生儿进入他们的信仰社区。
但是,现在,宗教礼拜场所和基于信仰的设施不能再做广告,也不能向普通公众提供其设施,除非他们准备将这些设施提供给和自己信仰对立的团体。例如,一个教会不能把它的教堂或礼堂提供给一般公众,除非它也會提供它的教堂和禮堂給同性“婚礼”的儀式。
不止這些。
有個人宗教信仰的婚姻委员官必须隆重的慶祝同性婚姻。阿尔伯塔的基督教會学校必須成立所谓的“同性恋異性恋联盟”俱乐部。在安大略省,第89号法案将更容易将孩子从宗教父母的家庭中分離出來,因為这些父母教导他们的孩子婚姻只是一个男人和一个女人结婚,不包括其他型式。
在魁北克省和安大略省, 有宗教信仰的醫生被迫甚至於被要求执行或安排堕胎和协助自杀死亡。如果他们拒绝,他们會被所在省份的醫生管理部門處罰,制裁,甚至吊銷执业许可证。类似的强制可以扩展到护士,药剂师和其他医疗专业人员。
众所周知,有強大資金援助的組織在法庭上试图阻止基于信仰的教师培训计划或基于信仰的法学院的通過。有信仰的人被禁止或被排除在教学,法律和医疗职业之外。
有信仰和良心的人现在是加拿大最多的被压迫的少数。
作为保守党领导人和反对党领导人,我将推动加拿大法律認可道德保護和权利,包括专业人士以及信仰组织和机构。
作为总理,我将介绍一份道德於良心的权利法案,以巩固加拿大法律中的这些权利和保护。
請帮助我结束压迫。
Conscience rights: Canada's (mostly) silent, oppressed minority
About one third of Canadians attend religious services on a weekly basis. That's about 12 million Canadians.
Canadians of faith have built and run hospitals, seniors' residences and extended care homes, alcohol and drug rehabilitation centres, food banks, pregnancy care homes, homeless shelters including "Inn from the Cold" housing for the homeless, half-way houses, shelters for women and their children. They have established and manage independent and parish schools, youth outreach centres, summer youth camps, gyms, post-secondary institutions of higher learning, radio stations and television and recording studios. Canadians of faith organize and host seniors' lunches and dinners, after-school programs for "latch-key" children, financial and debt management seminars, English as a second language courses, high school and degree completion programs, and many, many more.
This doesn't include the thousands of chapels, churches, meeting houses and cathedrals as well as synagogues, mosques and temples where Canadians come together. Week in, week out, Canadians of faith assemble to worship their God, solemnize weddings, conduct funerals, and welcome newborns into their faith communities.
But now, places of worship and faith-based facilities can no longer advertise nor make their facilities available to the general public unless they are prepared to make these facilities available to groups whose objectives or practices are in opposition to their own. For example, a church cannot make its chapel or hall available to the general public unless it is prepared to make it available for a same-sex "wedding" or reception.
It doesn't stop there.
Marriage commissioners of faith are compelled to solemnize same-sex marriages. Faith-based schools in Alberta are required to "facilitate" so-called "gay-straight alliance" clubs. In Ontario, Bill 89 will make it easier to remove children from the homes of religious parents who teach their children that marriage is only for one man and one woman, excluding all others.
Medical doctors of faith are being pressured, if not required as in Quebec and Ontario, to perform or give referrals for abortions and assisted suicide death. If they refuse, they risk sanction, discipline and loss of licence to practice by their province's governing college of physicians and surgeons. Similar coercion can extend to nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals.
Well-financed attempts in the courts to block faith-based teacher training programs or a faith-based law school are well known. People of faith are blocked or excluded from the teaching, legal and medical professions.
People of faith and conscience are now Canada's most numerous oppressed minority.
As Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition, I will push for recognition of conscience rights and protections in Canadian law for people of faith, including professionals, and for faith-based organizations and institutions.
As Prime Minister, I will introduce a Conscience Bill of Rights to entrench these rights and protections in Canadian law.
Help me end the oppression. Take action now by making a tax-deductible contribution to my campaign. To donate online now or by mail click on the button to the right.
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