"It is a modern version of original sin, which demands confession and atonement"  
Oh, its more than that. The puritanical streak in our society has become "weaponized" when mixed with the cultural Marxism that pervades our universities, teachers colleges, and that singular collection of morons at OISE.  This is what we get when we mix the secularized remnants of the worst excesses of puritanism (the holier than thou-ism of our founding ideology) with practices derived from imports like Stalinism and Maoism (i.e. self-denunciation, just before a bullet to the head), brewed right here in bucolic Ontario - on the leading edge of cultural and social self-destruction.  I suppose we have to lead in something.  Sunny ways indeed.