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Separation of church and state – Keep the state out of “religion”
Two important items follow…
Winnipeg Free Press – June 26, 2010
Church and state separation a road that runs two ways
IN conflicts involving the separation of church and state in Canadian
Should Quebec return tax dollars received from all Christians?
National Post – June 28, 2010
Religious people are taxpayers too
By Charles Lewis
Yesterday, the Post editorial board contended that Montreal’s Loyola High School should not have the right to opt out of a Quebec government-sponsored ethics and religion program – despite a court ruling allowing it to do so – because it receives public funds.
Charest’s Quebec ready to defend totalitarian humanist ideology
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National Post – June 22, 2010
Quebec to appeal ruling on religious course
By Graeme Hamilton
The Quebec government plans to appeal a court ruling that found its imposition of a province-wide ethics and religion course on a private Catholic school “totalitarian” and unconstitutional. The scathing decision issued on Friday by Quebec Superior Court Justice Gerard Dugre was a victory for Montreal’s Loyola High School, a Jesuit boys’ school that has objected to the controversial course since its 2008 introduction.
Court slams totalitarianism of Charest’s humanist Quebec government
Montreal Gazette – June 19, 2010
Court backs Loyola over ethics course: Ruling slams Quebec approach. Attempt to impose secular focus on teaching compared to Spanish Inquisition
By James Mennie
A private Catholic school in west end Montreal has won a court ordered exemption from a provincial government order that it teach a controversial ethics and morality course within the boundaries established by Quebec’s Education Dept.