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New Quebec secularism bill to ban prayer in schools, restrict offering of religion-based meals (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The ban on religon-based meals wasn't explained. Does that mean kosher and halal foods can't be offered by cafeterias? Fish can't be served on Fridays?

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Pretty much. I'm all for secularism but this goes a bit too far.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Way too far. I also support secularism in that I don't believe that religions should be privileged above deeply held personal preferences. This is like religious persecution.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The article says

    The bill also seeks to ban public institutions from offering a diet exclusively based on a religious tradition

    I mean I would expect that no meals are based exclusively on a religious tradition, usually it's based on a combination of religious tradition and culinary art, or nutritional requirement.

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    • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    This goes kinda too far? But you can get around the meals constraint just by being vegetarian.

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    All of this is too far.

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