Tag: secularism

Quebec Education Minister Bans Prayer and Other Religious Practices in Public Schools

Quebec’s education minister has banned prayer and other religious practices in the province’s public schools, saying that it is to preserve the “secular characteristic.” Bernard Drainville issued a directive on April 19, saying the National Assembly adopted a motion affirming the secularism of Quebec, and that having places of prayer in public schools goes against…


Secularism or Statism? The Religion of the Political Left

Commentary Today’s culture is often considered secular, implying that America is primarily divided between the religious and the non-religious. However, in addition to the many religions that enjoy freedom in the United States, the ideology of the political left seems to be a religion of its own. The left prides itself on its detachment from…


[Premiering 5/25 at 1PM ET] Death of the American Middle-Class Dream

I sat down with Cheryl Chumley, author of “Police State USA” and “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom,” to discuss the current state of affairs in the United States today. Chumley provides her view on how the country is on an increasingly slippery slope of the degradation of our God-given liberties as…


Death of the American Middle-Class Dream

I sat down with Cheryl Chumley, author of “Police State USA” and “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom,” to discuss the current state of affairs in the United States today. Chumley provides her view on how the country is on an increasingly slippery slope of the degradation of our God-given liberties as…


How Globalists Are Taking Over America, And What Can Be Done

I sat down with Cheryl Chumley, author of “Police State USA” and “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom,” to discuss the current state of affairs in the United States today. Chumley provides her view on how the country is on an increasingly slippery slope of the degradation of our God-given liberties as…


Toronto City Council Approves Funds for Legal Challenge to Quebec’s Secularism Law

Toronto city council has unanimously voted in support of a motion proposed by Mayor John Tory to provide $100,000 for a legal challenge against Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21. A statement from the council said the move reaffirmed the city’s opposition to the bill, which prohibits public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious…


Differences Between a Secular and a Religious—Jewish or Christian—Upbringing

Commentary Anyone who thinks about the current civil war in America comes to realize that it is, in large measure, a war between the religious and the anti-religious. The Left has contempt for evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics, and Orthodox Jews for good reason: They represent everything the Left loathes; and while there are, of course,…


Quebec Board Wrong to Hire Teacher Who Wore Hijab Given Secularism Law: Legault

MONTREAL—Premier Francois Legault says a school board in western Quebec should not have hired a teacher who wore a hijab. Legault told reporters today in Quebec City the province’s secularism law, known as Bill 21, has been in place since June 2019 and the Western Quebec School Board should have respected it when hiring. It…


Religious Discrimination Law Edge Closer Amidst Mounting Tensions Over ‘Folau Clause’

The Morrison government is expected to bring its religious discrimination laws to parliament as early as next week, sparking a heated debate about whether the bill should ban indirect discrimination and prevent employers from framing policies to bar employees from expressing religious views. The much-delayed bill, which is yet to be released, sought to fulfil…


As America Has Become More Secular, It Has Become Less Free

Commentary Here is something any honest person must acknowledge: As America has become more secular, it has become less free. Individuals can differ as to whether these two facts are correlated, but no honest person can deny they are facts. It seems to me indisputable that they are correlated. To deny this, one would have…