Between him and Half-a$$ Harper they have done a bang up job of killing our international reputation over the past year. Looks as if they are trying to outdo themselves again. It will be interesting to see how this is handled because it must be. Actually, it might be good if they are as arrogant as ever and refuse to do so, more Canadians might wake up and find we are well on our way the theocracy that threatens us all.

I doubt Liberals or NDP supporters such as yourself should be worrying too much about KAIROS Canada funding.

First, their members are all tax free donation driven organizations. If they wanted to fund something they could easily do that through their own member organizations. As you note, they represent the 7 largest churches.

Second, there are members such as the “Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops” who are essentially using the “good” that KAIROS Canada is doing to wash their generally less-than-progressive reputation. At the same time, it enables their reps to gain access to and influence with elected officials. Witness the “audit” of the tar sands by KAIROS involving the Alberta government. They use that influence to do things generally against your own stated preferences. Just because the United Church is a member doesn’t make them “left wing”.

Now you may interpret this as some sort of anti-religious viewpoint but that would be incorrect; the left needs the votes of the parishioner citizens too. Their official church reps almost always far more right wing than the actual members are. The best approach would be to cut off the oxygen to their “reps” and deal with the church going members directly as much as possible. By getting government funding they’re just playing you the public and the parishioners for suckers.

This, to me, is very straightforward strategy.