Posted on 01/15/2014 2:29:49 PM PST by marshmallow
QUEBEC - Canada's freshly appointed cardinal warned Monday that Quebec's controversial values charter is making its people increasingly afraid of each other.
Quebec Archbishop Gerald Cyprien Lacroix, among a new crop of cardinals selected Sunday by Pope Francis, spoke out against proposed Parti Quebecois legislation that will be the focus of public hearings beginning Tuesday.
The PQ government's plan would ban public-sector employees — including teachers and doctors — from displaying or wearing religious symbols in the workplace.
"We're dividing people," Lacroix told a Quebec City news conference when asked about the charter, a document tabled last fall by the minority PQ government.
"People are every day more afraid of each other. Instead of bringing us together and bringing our cultures together and sharing the richness of who we are, we're starting to build walls and be afraid of each other.
"And I don't like that. I don't think that that's where humanity should be going."
Bill 60 would force state employees to take off their headscarves, kippas, turbans and larger-than-average crucifixes if they want to keep their jobs.
Lacroix, one of 19 men named to the senior post in the Roman Catholic Church, also said the universal charter of rights states that people have the right to profess their faith in private or in public.
"And that needs to be upheld everywhere," said Lacroix, whose powerful new position enables him to participate in choosing the next pope.
The government proposal will go under the microscope in Quebec City starting Tuesday, when public hearings into the document are set to begin. Individuals and groups have presented briefs and will be given an opportunity to express their positions on the subject.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
What is a larger than average crucifix. The one I wear on a necklace is close to 3 inches long. Is that larger than average?
People are idiots in this country.
If fewer people were government employees, this wouldn’t be as big an issue. I wonder what the public vs. private employment numbers look like in Quebec.
After the press induced hysteria subsides, the multi-cultural devotees will have worked themselves up. Women who were non-muslims were donning a niquab in solidarity.
The real target is the emergence of sharia law. The authorities in Quebec could not target sharia and muslims alone. They had to go across the board and blanket all concerned. While in small numbers the Islamic communities may be very productive and keep their peace. Sadly, eventually along will come a pudgy man with burning black eyes and foul everything up. YOU must change he will shout, change to accommodate us.
Sharia law is the real target.
Thanks for the additional information.
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