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BC Humanist Association poised to sue the City of Parksville over prayer (www.cheknews.ca)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by LimpRimble@lemmy.ca to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

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“The 2015 decision by the Supreme Court in Saguenay, (QC), prohibits municipal councils from including prayer in their meetings and in the last two inaugural meetings, in 2018 and 2022, Parksville has included prayers, overtly religious prayers, in their inaugural meetings and that’s a violation of the constitution,” said Teale Phelps Bondaroff, the research coordinator with the BC Humanist Association.

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[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't put my faith in believing there is no god. I know there is no god.

That said... It is literally the job of a politician in a secular society to enact change not guided by their religious views but by the desires of their constituents backed by the latest studies, research and science at the time. A god has no part in it.

I'm not even going to read your wall of text. Go find yourself a cozy theocracy to live in if you think the government should be influenced by religion.