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As campaigners in English Canada once again push to have the phrase “in all thy sons command” scrubbed from the lyrics to O Canada, a secular group is also urging a closer look at the Catholic imagery lacing the anthem’s French translation.

“If we’re going to be amending the [gender] allusions, we should also be looking at secularizing the rest of it,” said Justin Trottier, a board member with the Canadian Secular Alliance.

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Tuesday, the campaign Restore Our Anthem was launched to lobby for the English lyrics of O Canada to be changed from “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command” — which organizers note is more faithful to “thou dost in us command,” the song’s original lyrics prior to the First World War.

Backed by novelist Margaret Atwood, former prime minister Kim Campbell and Sally Goddard, mother of the first female Canadian soldier killed in combat, the campaign argues that the gender-neutral change would help to “encapsulate the equality of all Canadians.”