Canadian Christians And Secularists Contest Including God's Name in the Un Charter of 1948 and the Canadian Charter of 1982

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In the 1940s both Catholic and Protestant churches understood that they were fighting for "Christian civilization" against the pagan forces of Nazism and communism.
55% : a responsible and proactive middle power defending Western Christendom against the ideological and military menace of Communism"
53% : But for "conservative Protestants and Catholics alike, a secular pluralism was about as disconcerting as communism"
53% : In Quebec, during the Quiet Revolution and the enraptured heights of separatist movement in the 1970s, "nationalism" supplanted "Catholicism" as signifier of collective identity.
49% : The picture is complicated because great legal thinkers like Frank C. Scott (who was Trudeau's mentor and son of a prominent Anglican canon) had made the trek from High Church Anglicanism to "humanism, democratic socialism and 'freedom' embraced as a 'way of life', a social religion" (p. 4).
30% : They feared that their own moral understandings (within confessional communities) of divorce, family law, sexual permissiveness, public education, and human rights would be undermined; for Catholics, the legalization of abortion had to be resisted; it violated something so fundamental that a secular translation was inconceivable.
18% : Sarcastically, Smith derided the "non-evangelical bleeding heart United Church activists worrying about California grapes, Noranda mines in Chile, abortion on demand and civil rights for gays.'

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