"The freedoms of religion and conscience are and must be the first freedoms to which all others are bound."
  Nonsense.
   Why the sudden surge in religionism, after 9/11, that has gone on and on and on?
  Like militarism, the security state, loss of privacy, more police everywhere, lack of jobs, lack of housing, low wages, endless war, endless terrorism.... religions, as my university profs taught me, are about social control, keeping the people down and out and pacified.

  Canada has been increasing secular since the 1960's. That's very good for democracy and the will of the people. Please allow me my freedom from religion. And let's get on with strengthening democracy, as its being shrunk by the corporate state and its media spokesmen who want to sell our country to immigrants and multinational corporations.