Here’s your Canadian Atheist Weekly Update for 10-Sep-2016 to 16-Sep-2016.
Tag Archives: religious tolerance
Weekly Update: 3-Sep-2016 to 9-Sep-2016
I’ve been wanting to set up recurring updates about topics of interest to Canadian atheists for years now. I was quite enthused when Secular Lynx started doing it a year or so back. But Secular Lynx seems to have died, so I thought it was finally time to step up.
The curious incident of the US Office of International Religious Freedom denouncing blasphemy laws
In an interesting turn of events, David Saperstein, United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom posted a blog on Wednesday titled “Time To Abolish Blasphemy Laws, Uphold Freedom of Expression”.
Top French Court suspends burqini ban; bigots unaffected
There’s a new twist in the burqini drama in France, as the highest court in the land, the Council of State, rules against the ban.
With widespread burqini bans, French laïcité may have finally jumped the shark
Quick question, Canadian islamophobes: If I told you that a government was enforcing a dress code for women (and women only) for the sake of “respecting good morals”, because if women wear what they please it might “draw a crowd and disrupt public order”, and thus the government was enacting … Continue reading
Indi’s MLQ v Saguenay review: Canadian secularism
Throughout the Mouvement laïque québécois v Saguenay (City) process, no less than five very different approaches to secularism were described. Thus far I’ve described the approaches that were not correct – approaches that were not actually secularism as properly defined. Happily, the final Supreme Court decision got secularism right. So … Continue reading