Quebec Leader: The Crucifix Is Not Religious

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Thank God they're leaving the hockey stick alone.

It will be attacked as soon as the Habs have the upper-hand against the Leafs.

 

[Frank Van Den Bossche]

"François Legault won Quebec’s provincial elections last week and will soon become the next premier. He has already vowed to stop government workers — including cops and teachers — from wearing religious symbols like hijabs and yarmulkes and turbans “in order to protect Quebec’s secular society.” It’s a move that trounces on religious freedom in the name of religious neutrality and creates far more problems than it solves.

But if religious symbols have to go, then what about the large crucifix that hangs in Quebec’s National Assembly…?

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Apparently that cross can stay right where it is because Legault claims there’s nothing religious about it.

The crucifix hanging in Quebec’s National Assembly is a historical symbol, not a religious one, even though it represents the Christian values of the province’s two colonial ancestors, premier-designate François Legault said Thursday.

The crucifix, he said, invokes the role of French Catholics and British Protestants in Quebec’s history. He made no mention of Indigenous people.

“In our past we had Protestants and Catholics. They built the values we have in Quebec. We have to recognize that and not mix that with religious signs.”

The crucifix was installed above the speaker’s chair in the National Assembly in 1936. A government-commissioned report into secularism and identity issues recommended in 2008 that it be removed, but no government has done so.

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So it’s historic, not religious, but it represents Christian values, but we shouldn’t think of Christianity when we look at it.

Legault’s brain probably needs a breather after all those mental gymnastics."
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