Canadian Politics Today

1 - imagine all the money churches can now make by hosting gay wedding receptions. 

2 - Places like Trinity Western are literally run by religious groups.  So are some hospitals.  The Catholic hospital in Nova Scotia was told by the courts that they must provide assisted dying.

1. The most significant priest in my upbringing said funeral mass for a friend who died, and had lived with a man his final years.  The priest openly acknowledged their relationship and asked for more love in the world.  I believe change is coming.

2. I get it but it's a lot more problematic to have a religious hospital than elementary school.  I would rather they not have religious hospitals.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6426019

Catholic public school has 8th graders make posters for anti-abortion group. 

The assignment at St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School in Woodstock involves students creating a poster that includes the words "Unborn Babies Matter," along with a picture or pictures that incorporate the theme. The in-class assignment is being graded and entered in a contest run by a local anti-abortion group.

"The parents weren't told about it, and they're not allowing the kids to learn about the opposite side of this issue," said Rachelle Lynn Dixon, whose daughter Kaydence, 13, alerted her mom to the assignment. "It's a Catholic school, but it's also funded by the public. It's an elementary school that is asking kids to Google images about abortion.

According to the article, the assignment cannot be taken home…. Hmmm….  I wonder why that is. 

Not sure I have seen anything in the last many years so blatantly obvious as a reason to eliminate public funding for religious schools.  They are doing exactly what the right-wing kooks claim that public schools are doing;  indoctrinating children. 

Having a seizure?  Well…. Clearly the boy has demons!  Time for an exorcism!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/head-of-bible-camp-admits-exorcism-but-no-medical-care-conducted-boy-experiencing-possible-seizure-1.6567609

The head of a Saskatchewan Bible camp admitted an exorcism was performed on a boy displaying symptoms of a seizure, and that no one provided medical care during or after the ceremony.

Wow. I didn't realize that sort of thing happened in Canada (religious extremists getting their way like that). I had always thought of Canada as very secular.

We have our share of wingnuts, especially on the prairies.

Wow. I didn't realize that sort of thing happened in Canada (religious extremists getting their way like that). I had always thought of Canada as very secular.

Laws and governments generally are secular.  But, as stated, there are plenty of religious wingnuts all over the country.

Hopefully, these people are brought up on charges, the camp and church are shut down and never receive any government funding ever again, but I doubt it will happen.

Religion, and in particular Christianity, still hold a privileged place in society. 

If a bunch of abusive husbands got together and created a religion they'd call it Islam.

And then if you call them out on it the progs don't know what to do because Muslims are an oppressed victim group in the west but so are women so then the feminists all die from brain hemorrhages due to cognitive dissonance.

Or Christianity.  Do you know how many Christian sects support patriarchy, submission to husband and Church and advise abused women not to leave their husband or go to cops?   You may think Islam is special, but you'd be wrong.

BTW, in Africa, Christian churches support polygamy.

Islam isn’t a race you dumb f**k.

Yeah because when you picture a Muslim you have a blond haired blue eyed type in mind, get **** you dumb ****

Laws and governments generally are secular.  But, as stated, there are plenty of religious wingnuts all over the country.

Hopefully, these people are brought up on charges, the camp and church are shut down and never receive any government funding ever again, but I doubt it will happen.

Religion, and in particular Christianity, still hold a privileged place in society.

Interesting. So are churches taxed in Canada?