Shane Doan: What happened to separation of church and state?

If Thomas Jefferson was a Canadian, he'd be rolling over in his grave. The bizarre recent obsession in our nations capital, culminating in Bob Nicholson's trip today to Parliament Hill, fills me with mixture of disdain, anger, confusion, and embarrassment. Our politicians are violating so man tenants of our national sensibility:

Innocent until proven guilty
Mind your own business
Do you job

But above all these, the recent parliamentary preoccupation threatens that core western doctrine: separation of church and state. Hockey is our religion. This meddling is an attack at the very core. First Harper gets elected and now this. These are ill tidings indeed. Watch for locusts ....