Today, the CBC call-in show, Ontario Today, discussed exemptions from religion classes in Ontario Catholic Secondary Schools. This episode is a follow up from the August show that spoke about the Borgstadt family. This family invested 8 months pursuing an exemption for their son. Before the call-ins started, the host, Rita Celli, played an interview with Kyle Naylor.… Read more »
The expectation of a fairly imminent Second Coming persists in certain quarters. In other quarters, it was replaced in the last century by almost equally millenarian notions about an imminent global triumph of secular liberal democracy, although the geopolitical turbulence of recent years has at least dampened such expectations. The Indian writer Pankaj Mishra suggests… Read more »
In an article in Pink News, National Secular Society President Terry Sanderson says exactly what I’ve been thinking: “Ignore the PR, the Catholic Church Continues with Its Grotesque Homophobia.” Sanderson is furious with gay rights groups’ reaction to the Reuters report on the results of the Catholic Church’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family: Its sheer delusion… Read more »