St. John Catholic Elementary School in Peterborough, Ontario uses an outdoor sign to signal the emphasis it puts on education:
Faith: Through Words and Action
This blatant flaunting of religious privilege wouldn’t be quite so irritating if St. John Catholic Elementary School were not a publicly funded Ontario school. Faith is not one of the three Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic; it certainly isn’t science, history or critical thinking. So why are publicly-funded Catholic schools in Ontario teaching faith?
The Questioning Show asks the same question:
The inaugural episode of the show [Legal Discrimination in Ontario?] puts the public funding of Catholic education in Ontario to the question. Plainly and admittedly discriminatory, we question the origins of the funding through Canada’s history as a beautiful compromise turned ugly monster.
When religions turn political.
Who am I kidding?
That’s the whole purpose to the “organized” thing.
Canada already has three or four organizing levels.
Let’s encourage our neighbors that this is sufficient.
If the world-wide Islam community wants to send a message to the politically active and the militarily active nutcases they can similarly just quit.
Tune out, Turn off, and join up! (to inclusive politics)