[Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life]

* We recognize the unlimited right to freedom of conscience, religion and belief, and that freedom to practice one's religion should be limited only by the need to respect the rights of others.
    * We submit that public policy should be informed by evidence and reason, not by dogma.
    * We assert the need for a society based on democracy, human rights and the rule of law. History has shown that the most successful societies are the most secular.
    * We assert that the only equitable system of government in a democratic society is based on secularism: state neutrality in matters of religion or belief, favoring none and discriminating against none.
    * We assert that private conduct, which respects the rights of others should not be the subject of legal sanction or government concern.
    * We affirm the right of believers and non-believers alike to participate in public life and their right to equality of treatment in the democratic process.
    * We affirm the right to freedom of expression for all, subject to limitations only as prescribed in international law - laws which all governments should respect and enforce. We reject all blasphemy laws and restrictions on the right to criticize religion or nonreligious life stances.
    * We assert the principle of one law for all, with no special treatment for minority communities, and no jurisdiction for religious courts for the settlement of civil matters or family disputes.
    * We reject all discrimination in employment (other than for religious leaders) and the provision of social services on the grounds of race, religion or belief, gender, class, caste or sexual orientation.
    * We reject any special consideration for religion in politics and public life, and oppose charitable, tax-free status and state grants for the promotion of any religion as inimical to the interests of non-believers and those of other faiths.  We oppose state funding for faith schools.
    * We support the right to secular education, and assert the need for education in critical thinking and the distinction between faith and reason as a guide to knowledge, and in the diversity of religious beliefs. We support the spirit of free inquiry and the teaching of science free from religious interference, and are opposed to indoctrination, religious or otherwise.

Well OK, perhaps it's not an especially chilling document after all but Ken Ham owns the secret ideological decoder ring that enables him to get at what the folks who drafted the Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life are really up to. For example, the first declaration in the list,

* We recognize the unlimited right to freedom of conscience, religion and belief, and that freedom to practice one's religion should be limited only by the need to respect the rights of others.

...amounts to Orwellian doublespeak, explains Ken Ham. It really means this,

We recognize the unlimited right (even though we have no objective basis for "rights" in our system) to freedom of conscience, religion, and belief--except for Christians--and that freedom to practice one's religion should be limited only by the need to respect the rights of others (this is the golden rule: "do unto others . . . " for which we have no logical basis in our way of thinking)--except for Christians, as we reject Christianity totally and must try to eliminate it.

And so on.

Ken Ham, who has spoken in venues ranging from tiny backwoods churches to Pentagon prayer breakfasts, is a noted proponent of the Biblical coexistence of humans and vegetarian dinosaurs :

"According to evolutionists, the dinosaurs "ruled the Earth" for 140 million years, dying out about 65 million years ago. However, scientists do not dig up anything labeled with those ages. They only uncover dead dinosaurs (i.e., their bones), and their bones do not have labels attached telling how old they are. The idea of millions of years of evolution is just the evolutionists' story about the past. No scientist was there to see the dinosaurs live through this supposed dinosaur age. In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. No scientist observed dinosaurs die. Scientists only find the bones in the here and now, and because many of them are evolutionists, they try to fit the story of the dinosaurs into their view.

Other scientists, called creation scientists, have a different idea about when dinosaurs lived. They believe they can solve any of the supposed dinosaur mysteries and show how the evidence fits wonderfully with their ideas about the past, beliefs that come from the Bible....

The Bible teaches (in Genesis 1:29–30) that the original animals (and the first humans) were commanded to be vegetarian. There were no meat eaters in the original creation. Furthermore, there was no death. It was an unblemished world, with Adam and Eve and animals (including dinosaurs) living in perfect harmony, eating only plants.

Sadly, it did not stay this way for very long."

Yes, Mr. Ham, it's sad.