{"id":10993,"date":"2010-12-18T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2010-12-18T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T15:56:59","slug":"expunging-christianity-from-publicly-funded-canadian-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/expunging-christianity-from-publicly-funded-canadian-institutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Expunging Christianity from publicly funded Canadian institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/life.nationalpost.com\/2010\/12\/17\/quebec-toddlers-can-see-religious-symbols-but-now-can%E2%80%99t-have-them-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After eliminating denominational education from schools, the Quebec government announced plans Friday to extend its ban on religious instruction to toddlers.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy will make it illegal for workers in the province\u2019s network of subsidized daycares to teach their charges, aged five and under, about a specific religion. Teaching religious songs, including many Christmas carols, will be off limits, as will crafts with a religious connotation. Government inspectors will enforce the rules beginning next June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want the young Quebecers who attend our daycare services to do so in a spirit of openness to others and diversity,\u201d Family Minister Yolande James said as she unveiled the changes in Montreal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not all religions are being expunged, however:\u00a0 promoting <em>a spirit of openness to others and diversity <\/em>is itself an expression of religion, exhorting, as it does, submission to the contemporary pop-morality dogma that <em>openness <\/em>and <em>diversity <\/em>are, a priori, superior to their opposites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: After eliminating denominational education from schools, the Quebec government announced plans Friday to extend its ban on religious instruction to toddlers. The new policy will make it illegal for workers in the province\u2019s network of subsidized daycares to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/expunging-christianity-from-publicly-funded-canadian-institutions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[2080,2225],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-correctness","tag-christianity","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}