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: Mirror of Justice

A "victory for religious freedom" in Quebec

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This is, I think, good news:  A judge in Quebec has invalidated -- calling it "totalitarian" -- a requirement that Quebec had imposed on Catholic schools that the schools teach a state-crafted-and-controlled "Ethics & Religious Culture" course from a "neutral" perspective:

"The obligation imposed on Loyola to teach ERC subjects from a secular perspective takes on a totalitarian character that is essentially equivalent to the order that the Inquisition gave Galileo to renounce the Copernican cosmology," he wrote in his 63-page decision that is a masterpiece of legal thinking.



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Being+neutral+religion+involves+making+choice/3188853/story.html#ixzz0ru8j3mM3

Full post as published by Mirror of Justice on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).

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