Quebec Bans Religious Symbols

[New World Explorer]

MONTREAL — The Quebec government passed a bill late Sunday barring schoolteachers, police officers, judges and other public employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace, prompting an outcry that civil liberties in the province were under attack.

François Legault, the right-leaning Quebec premier, had called the bill a necessary measure to ensure the separation between religion and state in an abidingly secular province. It applies to Muslim head scarves, Jewish skullcaps, Sikh turbans and Catholic crosses, among other symbols.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/world/canada/quebec-head-scarf-ban.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

[Qapla]

I wonder how that will work with some who have tattoos ???

[normadenardo]

I wonder if other nations will play follow the leader. 

[Sheep]

Funny. None of Jehovah's Witnesses up here are complaining about this law.

[BenJepthah]

So does this include pasta strainers? 

[Shawnster]

I'm curious how this is being accepted in Canada, especially Quebec. 

 

1 hour ago, normaclutter said:

I wonder if other nations will play follow the leader. 

It will be interesting since many European national flags depict colored crosses. 

[BenJepthah]

So , does that include religious b€@£d$ ? And if so, does it also include shaved heads?