Thursday, December 18, 2008
The gods are really Crazy!
When I was in a previous life, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, I contributed with Pauline Marois and Stéphane Dion, to be adopted by the two parliaments constitutional amendment which had the effect of déconfessionnaliser the school boards. The aim was to make structures.
During parliamentary debates, however, everyone insisted that the creation of linguistic school boards does not abolish the right to religious education guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Until then, no problem!
Worth
When the Ministry of Education has concocted and imposed on all young people in primary and secondary courses of ethics and religious culture, which was not my surprise to learn that the National Assembly had amended unanimously and any steam in June 2005 without vote the Bill of Rights. Result: abolition, for all practical purposes, freedom of parental choice in education and religious morality.
I admit that I have seen nothing. Even the ADQ, which today calls for a moratorium on new course, did not oppose the amendment. Yet, it is said that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has more value and importance as an ordinary law. And that therefore it must touch him with great caution and after a broad debate to an informed decision. This was obviously not the case on this issue.
It's worth reading the text before its amendment ... "Parents have the right to require that, in public schools, their children receive a religious or moral education in conformity with their convictions, in programs provided by law." It is under this provision that Quebec's public schools offer parents a choice between religious education and moral teaching. In 80% of cases, it was the religious education that was chosen.
Major change
Now the new article, as amended, does recognize that parents' right to ensure the religious and moral education of their children. There is no question, however, that it happens in the "public". This is a major change since abolished the freedom of choice (between religious or moral) of the parents. Everything was done in secret and almost any steam. Such flippant human rights and freedoms is to say the least offensive and contemptuous to parents of Quebec.
The new course on ethics and religious culture is I say bluntly, a horror. It is an indescribable Macedonia which requires children six years to "attend" at least six religions. Jesus, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, Ganesh, Jehovah and the Grand Manitou, It is a string of gods who will rush in the brains of toddlers.
The effect of this divine mess, to put it (this is called ethical relativism) the Judeo-Christian heritage of Quebecers. You think I ramble? Here is the father wrote of the course, Fernand Ouellet: "It's not enough, we he admits, educate the recognition and respect. We must also learn to shake the requisite identity "and interest in the other by transcending differences and conflicts of values." Later, he added that "undermine identity too massive and introduce divergence and dissonance." Not bad, huh? Understand that heritage, traditions, heritage and Judeo-Christian ethics form a core too hard, too strong, too tough. Thus, it is essential to break, to split, so our children and grandchildren to be propelled into the nirvana of multiculturalism and the overabundance of God.
Heritage
At least, we can not criticize the technocratic Machine of Education of lacking clarity and have vague goals. Quebecers, according to these monks mullahs and the Shrunken Identity, have the unfortunate tendency to consider their national identity (400 years of American history, language, culture, homeland, heritage, an old Judeo-Christian heritage ) Must be dominant and dominant in Quebec. This is a very bad taste!
It is therefore appropriate for these technocrats that the vast majority of parents reduce their "sufficient identity", ie, as the Petit Larousse, their "excessive appreciation of oneself." It must cease these Quebecers to show a commitment rude and abusive to the Judeo-Christian dimension of their national identity, which led earlier by the mass registration of their children during religious education rather than that of morality. That is why, now, our schools have resorted to Buddha, Allah, Vishnu and all the planetary pantheon for dismantling in children six years, the Judeo-Christian part of our national identity.
If we could hold a referendum (as in most American States) on this issue, a strong majority surely oblige multicultural ideologues to restore freedom of choice for parents as a fundamental right.
Labels: Québec, Secularism
# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 1:36 AM 
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