#1 Grazielle (Guest) on Sunday March 18, 2012 at 12:45am

I read it in full.  It was cringe wrthoy, and was an abandonment of principles.  The title was misleading because if you actually read the paper, they’re not really in opposition to specific religious structures being built, they just think people shouldn’t bother building religious structures anywhere, which is entirely within their mandate “to foster a society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values”. Opposing the construction of religious buildings is not within their mandate.  It is completely against the free exercise of religion.  I hope CFI Canada doesn’t bother drafting a position since the issues isn’t relevant to Canadian affairs. It was a fun summer exercise but is getting stale and I’m looking forward to September when there will be something new to talk about. Your nonchalance towards this issue is disturbing.  There’s a large movement trying to use the government to forbid the building of a religious structure that they don’t like.  Even those not urging government pressure to move the ground zero mosque are misguided.  Popular prejudice should not dictate where religious structures are built.An attack on religious freedom should be seen as an attack against the very concept itself.  It easily could be atheists in a position similar to this next time.  And, on top of this you have organizations like the ADL, CFI and Simon Wiesenthal Institute taking hypocritical stances on this issue.  These organizations should know better.