Thursday, June 09, 2011

Charles Lewis: Quebec’s fight against Biblical teaching is to the detriment of a common culture


A group of Catholic and Jewish parents in Quebec has taken umbrage with the province’s ban prohibiting religious instruction in subsidized daycares and has gone to court to reverse the new rules.

The story, as reported in Wednesday’s National Post by reporter Graeme Hamilton, explained that children could learn about Noah’s Ark and the Exodus, for example, as long as divine intervention was absent from the picture.

The parents, citizens of Quebec, think there is something wrong with washing out all references to God, even when the government pays part of the bill.

This is not the first time that Quebec has had issues with religious instruction.

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