This year's Ignite Our Culture theme and speaker line-up is timely in view of recent developments on polygamy. In late September, polygamy charges against Bountiful leaders were dropped. The judge hearing the case objected to the B.C. Attorney-General looking for a 2nd special prosecutor to charge the men after the 1st special prosecutor he put on the case recommended against charges. The decision effectively quashes the charges. Politicians don't want to touch the issue, so they probably won't unless Canadians demand that they do so.
The theme of our Ignite Our Culture conference this year is "Freedom and Family: Where Rights Meet Responsibilities," and one of our main speakers is Mary Mackert, a former wife of a polygamous man.
Freedom and Family are the two foundational realities of a civilized society and the two realities that are under the greatest threat today from state-ist and libertine forces.
A robust commitment to the family as the foundational social unit for society is necessary for cultivating and perpetuating self-government in the next generation. Self-government embraces the ethics of charity, industry, loyalty, human dignity, devotion, sacrifice, service, wealth creation and resourcefulness.
This kind of family is disappearing today. Because of this, the civil government is becoming more and more powerful, larger and larger.
The state always grows at the expense of liberty. Due to the growth in the State today, we are seeing new and dangerous threats to foundational freedoms that we have taken for granted for so many years: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, freedom of the press, etc.
Join us in Burlington on Oct. 23rd-24th, to learn how to stand up against this loss of family and freedom and how to take back this territory in the days ahead. John Carpay of the Canadian Constitution Foundation will be talking about the legal work CCF does with court cases that threaten to destroy our freedoms in Canada. You will hear from Michael Coren, a broadcaster, columnist and author who is on the front lines of this battle every day. And Mary Mackert, a former wife of a polygamist man, will talk about the importance of holding the line against the perverted, woman-exploiting practise of polygamy.
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