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Fuck religion but fuck stupid laws like this. Seriously this is just as stupid as the age verification stuff everyone he is mad about.
People have the right to do their rituals if it makes them feel good…
Not only that, but if you want to end religion, causing people to think their religion is under attack from the outside is the best way to isolate everyone in that religion and make them far more likely to stay in that religion for life.
Instead of feel-good measures like this, they should TAX mosques, churches, temples, prayer sheds, whatever. (it feels good to ME, anyway)
In USA, religions pay virtually nothing, with many more benefits than any secular charity or non-profit.
There’s a whole slew of non -profit orgs that would feel pain before religious ones were taxed at any reasonable level.
This does remove some direct funding, in the public funded orgs won’t have to set aside building space for religion. Students will also have access to different/closer/better schooling if the Catholic schools are not allowed to select students based on their religion, which is great and I don’t know how they were allowed to do that based on our Charter of freedoms
i imagine a situation where churches could keep non-profit status as long as they provided some tangible service to the community. homeless feedings and things like that. but there’s no universe in which a religious non-profit should get more privileges than a non-religious one
What problem does this solve?
The lack of oppression, there are people who got too comfortable with the illusion of power. Hence, they have to generate misery while they still can.
No, I think is more absurd. They look at the US and overcorrect. There’s a reasonable middle ground where a grey area in processing works itself out after a few generations. That is totally skipped with this volatile approach.
Good, now ban religion altogether, preferably by recognising it as the mental illness that it so clearly is.
You can’t ban it, don’t be silly.
Do you really want THE STATE to have the power to ban belief systems?
Religion isn’t a belief, it’s a delusion.
“If you are a minority, specifically one that has to pray 5 times throughout the day, you don’t get university anymore.”
- Fr*nce.
I don’t believe in any religion, don’t like religion, but I also realize that it’s not the governments place to tell people what they can and can’t believe.
Besides that, given the specifics of this law it’s rather easy to see it’s not even about religion as a whole. It’s just more Islamophobia.
it’s not the governments place to tell people what they can and can’t believe
Right, which is why they are requiring schools that receive public funds to stop discriminating against students
It’s just more Islamophobia.
Also yes and we’ll work on that, but it prompted them into a sensible change.
Something something France light.
Also related but isn’t Canada super immigrant dense anyway? If you ignored the architecture, you could genuinely confuse some areas for South Asia lol.
2021 census has us at 23% immigrants, so ya its a lot.
Interesting to see so many comments defending religion, especially one particular religion. Anyway, IMO religion should be always a private matter. If you don’t like certain rules or laws, nobody is preventing you to leave and be happy somewhere else. So, if a Christian is not happy in a Muslim country due to restrictions, the person can move to a Christian or secular country. If a Muslim is not happy in a basically Christian or secular country, there are many Muslim countries, which will allow him or her to follow the rules of the religion. So, everybody is happy. Hence, what is the deal here?
“Just give up your home, job, and family and likely become a refugee if you don’t agree with the prevailing religion. What’s the big deal?”
“Abortion is illegal now because it’s unchristian. If you are not a devout Christian, move.”
Your opinion is a bit of a paradox, isn’t it? If religion was always a private matter you wouldn’t be able to go to any country and tell what religion that country is.
Part of the problem is that a few religions tell their followers that they own specific land, so they are competing to have exclusivity of that land instead of just going somewhere else.
The expansion of civilisations has always encroached on religions as well. You basically have to choose a point in time to say “starting now religions are allowed to exist in the countries they are already in.” Should the aboriginal Australians just go somewhere else if they don’t like the multicultural/multi-religiousness of modern Australia? What about native Americans if they don’t like capitalist Jesus?
Canadians are bad, but French Canadians are just the absolute worst. Distilled colonialism shouldn’t exist.
Can’t wait for the endless “end times near! look at this recent event” that are going made concerning this recent ruling. /s
At my university (US), one of my calculus professors with a 150+ student lecture hall would repeatedly open his lecture with a slide showing his church and an invitation for students to join him there on Sunday. Absolutely inappropriate to proselytize a captive audience under his power to pass/fail them. There has to be some accountability for universities to stop this, but not to harass a person wearing a cross necklace or a koppel or a hijab. Shame this is legislated at such a high level instead of people just being professional and not a*holes.
Minister Roberge has previously stated that street prayers could be considered “acts of provocation.”
Municipalities will be able to authorize them, but only under certain criteria. The new law will also ban the wearing of religious symbols by daycare educators. The government is also extending this ban to teachers and staff at private schools.
Bloody ridiculous. This helps nobody.
I thought the whole point of secularism / separation of church and state was that the state couldn’t ban individual religious expression nor the right to assembly for religious purposes (or any other purpose)?
If the municipalities now have a say in what religious activities are authorized, and which aren’t, then that’s no longer separation of church and state.
So, yes, specifically targeting Muslims, but catching strays with Yarmulkes as well.
What a load of crap
It’s to protect freedom, obviously.
No shit, that’s the Quebec government argument.
Hey you say that in French too, TOUTE SUITE
C’est l’argument officiel du gouvernement CAQuiste
En quebecois : Cette gang de vieux caliss de mononc’ tentent de nous faire à croire que c’est pour la liberté académique qu’ils font ça mais tout le monde sait que c’est des tabarnak de vieux mous autoritaires
Tout court esti
And I’m sure like french laicite this will be enforced unequally and will discriminate in order to target minorities.
It doesn’t need to. I don’t think anyone but Muslims is required to pray multiple times a day and need places to do so. It’s specifically meant to be an anti-Muslim law.
Just like making it illegal for anybody to sleep under a bridge. Surely that wasn’t aimed at the homeless, right?
Muslims don’t need places to do so (Friday prayer aside), but they have to pray somewhere and they’re also forbidding praying in the street.
Defining prayer is difficult, surely?
Would that be a catch all cause for investigations?I figure this will be compared to thought-crime law.
“The suspect was seen sitting on a park bench with his eyes closed, his head inclined, and his hands clasped in his lap. So you see, your honor, and I submit to the jury, that the suspect was indeed clearly praying in public, and I motion to add a charge of perjury, for lying to this court under oath when he stated ‘I was just resting my eyes.’”
