Religious Accommodation Request We have noticed that many brethren in Canada and elsewhere are facing the loss of employment for their unwillingness to comply with recent vaccine mandates in the workplace. Here in Canada the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) offers this advice: “The religious objections held by individuals to specific vaccines will vary significantly. The Justice Centre does not have a standard template to address such individual beliefs. Canadian law grants protection to an individual’s personal religious beliefs which are sincerely held, regardless of whether those beliefs are adhered to by others or even by the faith community to which the individual belongs. In order to establish the existence of a religious objection, it will be necessary for the individual to have specific religious beliefs which would be violated in a non-trivial way by receiving a particular vaccine. These beliefs must be sincerely held, and an individual’s pattern of conduct consistent with those beliefs will help to prove that they are sincerely held. Once a religious objection to taking a vaccine is established, an employer has a duty to accommodate that religious belief up to the point of undue hardship. The extent to which an employer must accommodate an employee’s religious objection to taking a vaccine will be dependent on the specific circumstances of the employment.” To help our brethren who may need support in writing a letter to establish a ‘religious objection,’ we have created a Religious Accommodation Request template that can be used and modified to suit individual circumstances. Religious Accommodation Request –…
October 17th, 2021
Religious Accommodation Letter (template for personal use)
Comments Off on Religious Accommodation Letter (template for personal use), Articles, Jeff Patton, by CGP.July 12th, 2021
Your Roots Your Destiny — Solving the Mystery of the Lost Ten Tribes
Comments Off on Your Roots Your Destiny — Solving the Mystery of the Lost Ten Tribes, Authors, Books, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Introduction: Solving the Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes The ultimate promise that God made to Abraham and his descendants was that they would inherit the world and eternal life. This promise was accepted by Abraham in an attitude of complete and total trust that our cynical age finds extremely hard to even begin to understanding, much less emulate. Read the introduction: YRYD — Introduction Solving the Mystery of the Lost Ten Tribes Chapter 1: Beginnings The story of Israel is the story of a single family that was chosen for divine service by the One who asserts that He created all humanity from one blood (cf. Acts 17:26). The Israelites were a people born by a series of divine miracles, as well as, circumstances common to the human condition. They were a “chosen” people, but in no way could they ever have been considered a “pet” people either in antiquity or now. After all, God is not a respecter of persons. Read Chapter 1: YRYD Chapter 1 — Beginnings
March 30th, 2017
Material Progress without Moral Development
Comments Off on Material Progress without Moral Development, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Can the network of cellulose veins in a spinach leaf, when stripped of its plant cells and replaced with human heart tissue, someday be used to repair the damage caused by heart-attacks? Or can the cellulose structure of broccoli or cauliflower, when stripped of their plant cells, be used as growing platforms for replacement lungs? Though it sounds like pure science fiction, bioengineers at the Massachusett’s Worchester Polytechnic Institute and at other research centres are working feverishly to make such ideas a reality. READ MORE
November 26th, 2016
Where is Personal Responsibility in “Harm Reduction” Strategies?
Comments Off on Where is Personal Responsibility in “Harm Reduction” Strategies?, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.In Canada, and in British Columbia, we’re being told there is a public health “crisis” or “emergency” over the perils of addiction, over-dosing, and death. Recently, intravenous drug users having been dropping dead in significant numbers in B.C.–about two a day due to the appearance on the streets over this past year of the drug fentanyl–a cheaper, far more powerful, artificial opioid. This cheaply manufactured drug is being smuggled into Canada from China. To counter this “crisis” among those ensnared in opioid addiction, many of the so-called experts are calling for more “harm-reduction” strategies… Is this the answer??? Read more…
November 26th, 2016
True Confessions of a Journalist or Plain People Change History
Comments Off on True Confessions of a Journalist or Plain People Change History, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.In the aftermath of the unexpected electoral trump of Donald Trump, leftists all around the world are in shock. They were all assured by the mainstream press that Hillary Clinton would become the 45th president of the United States. How could they get it so wrong? Well, I’ve decide to quote at length from a professional journalist who confesses that the pride and arrogance of the elite and the loonie left rendered them blind to the facts. But, of course, that’s not all! Hope you enjoy this refreshingly honest look at what’s really been going on in the newsrooms of our Western media. Be sure to see my conclusion at the very bottom for the real reason why Mr. Trump prevailed last night… Read more…
Last week a private Christian university won a controversial victory over its enemies who have been trying to force out of the public sphere any institution that upholds Judeo-Christian morality. The Appeal Court of British Columbia, B.C.’s highest court, ruled unanimously, 5-0, in favour of Trinity Western University, describing efforts by the B.C. Law Society and sexual circus activists to deny the accreditation of the Christian university’s new law school as “unreasonable.” For years now, the dispute has revolved around … Read More…
November 23rd, 2016
Globalism=Trade Deals=Ceding National Sovereignty
Comments Off on Globalism=Trade Deals=Ceding National Sovereignty, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Globalism – Ceding Sovereignty? The Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) that Canada has been negotiating with the European Union (EU) is about far more than just products and service. It’s also about ceding sovereignty, making our mere national laws subordinate to those of the EU’s. The way it seems to work these day is that when a single nation state like Canada with 36 million inhabitants wants to make a trade deal with the supranational EU power block with 743 million residents, it comes with strings attached. More and more It seems the EU is pushing its political goals on its wanna-be trading partners. So, when a deal hinges not, on tariffs or quotas, but rather a sovereign nation’s welfare or immigration policies… Read more
November 20th, 2016
Was Patrick a Good Catholic?
Comments Off on Was Patrick a Good Catholic?, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Was St. Patrick a good Catholic? Most would say that you might as well say is the Pope Catholic! But often truth is indeed stranger than fiction, or even green beer. Many of the tales and lore associated with St. Patrick come from Tirechán’s LIfe of Patrick, which was written about 700 A.D., or roughly 250 years after Patrick’s death. Unfortunately Tirechán’s book is not only completely revisionistic but also primarily fictitious. Tirechán’s work mostly reflects the priorities of an 8th century Catholic hierarchy who were at that point desperately trying to claim Patrick’s missionary legacy as their own in their campaign to pressure the remainder of the stubbornly independent Celtic Christian congregations in Ireland who were refusing to “enter into unity with Rome,” Far from being a part of the Roman hierarchy, Patrick of Ireland ran a self-funded independent ministry. He never answered to Rome’s direction. Read more…
November 20th, 2016
2016: Beginning Badly
Comments Off on 2016: Beginning Badly, Blog, Jeff Patton, by CGP.Let’s see how far we have come in the past year… 2016: Beginning Badly Wow! We’re just completing the first full week in 2016 and God help us, if this is merely a harbinger of more of the same to follow. Let’s see, worldwide financial markets have sold off enough during this past week, due to the extreme volatility taking place in the Chinese markets, that some observers are saying we are now, officially, in a bear—that is declining—market. The Casey Research newsletter says that since Monday the world’s stock markets have lost US$2.5 trillion of their investors’ money! Read more…