New Quebec secularism bill to ban prayer in schools, restrict offering of religion-based meals

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-21-expansion-quebec-9.6990951

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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 276d (5 replies)

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?

cyborganism@piefed.ca · 21 pts · 276d (2 replies)

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

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 276d

Yeah food is food, it doesn't plot, or have an agenda.

m0darn@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 276d

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.

m0darn@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 276d (1 reply)

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.

Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 276d

Yeah. kinda subject to interpretation. It'll be interesting to see if any case get to court.

jaselle@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 276d

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

fancy-straw-simple@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 276d

All of this is too far.