Supreme Court of Canada rules Quebec students must take Ethics-Religion course.

<snip>When the program became mandatory in Quebec schools in May 2008, the appellants, who cannot be named under a court-ordered publication ban, had one child in elementary school and another in secondary school.
The parents wrote to the two schools to request that their children be exempt from the courses.
They claimed their children would suffer serious harm from contact with a series of beliefs that were mostly incompatible with those of the family.

<snip>When Quebec first brought in the ethics and religion course, some Catholic parents fought back, saying it interfered with their ability to pass their faith on to their children. They also argued that it infringed on their freedom of conscience and religion under the Charter of rights and Freedoms.


I was nervous about it when my kids started taking the course, but I paid attention to their projects and other things and quickly realized it wasn't about promoting Jesus and the rest.
As an atheist I figured other atheists would be all up in arms about their kids learning about religion. Turns out it wasn't at all, the Catholics, for the most part, were the ones all freaked out about it and tried to have their children exempt.

http://news.ca.msn.com/canada/quebec-students-must-take-ethics-religion-course


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