New Quebec secularism bill to ban prayer in schools, restrict offering of religion-based meals (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago

The ban on religon-based meals wasn't explained. Does that mean kosher and halal foods can't be offered by cafeterias? Fish can't be served on Fridays?

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 21 points 4 days ago

Pretty much. I'm all for secularism but this goes a bit too far.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

Yeah food is food, it doesn't plot, or have an agenda.

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Way too far. I also support secularism in that I don't believe that religions should be privileged above deeply held personal preferences. This is like religious persecution.

[-] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

The article says

The bill also seeks to ban public institutions from offering a diet exclusively based on a religious tradition

I mean I would expect that no meals are based exclusively on a religious tradition, usually it's based on a combination of religious tradition and culinary art, or nutritional requirement.