 Non-Christian prison chaplains chopped by Ottawa The federal government is cancelling the contracts of all non-Christian chaplains at federal prisons, CBC News has learned.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Maybe it's a better choice to cancel all the contracts, and let the religious types figure it out for themselves, without
sucking on the public tit.
Religious Institutions get Tax Breaks already, they should provide these services on their own dime for that reason alone.
Great idea.
WTF is this shit? Cancel Christian Chaplain services too if Freedom of Religion and Cost is important. Religious Institutions get Tax Breaks already, they should provide these services on their own dime for that reason alone.
Agreed.
When it comes to religion it's got to be all or nothing. Seems the Harper government forgets that a lot.
Nah, he's trying to avoid offending the christian voters, forgetting that doing this alienates the other religions because it shows favoritism.
When it comes to religion it's got to be all or nothing. Seems the Harper government forgets that a lot.
Nah, he's trying to avoid offending the christian voters, forgetting that doing this alienates the other religions because it shows favoritism.
Since prison inmates form a very small percentage of the population (inmates of religions other than Christianity an even smaller percentage), this action will likely have little in the way of repercussions.
Frankly the government should leave preaching to the officials from the church, mosque, synagogue... whatever.
Spend taxpayer dollars on ventures more worthwhile.
The federal government is defending its decision to cancel the contracts of all its part-time non-Christian prison chaplains, saying it plans to use the same multi-faith model already used in the Canadian Forces.
The cancellations, which will take effect by the end of March 2013, will remove all the part-time chaplains in the federal prison system, leaving about 80 full-time chaplains across the country — all but one are Christian.
On Friday the government issued a statement clarifying the number of contracts affected. The statement says a total of 49 part-time contracts were cancelled, including 18 non-Christian and 31 Christian chaplains.
In question period in the House of Commons on Friday, Conservative MP Candice Bergen, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of public safety, said the remaining full-time chaplains would provide ecumenical multi-faith counselling to all inmates.
When it comes to religion it's got to be all or nothing. Seems the Harper government forgets that a lot.
Nah, he's trying to avoid offending the christian voters, forgetting that doing this alienates the other religions because it shows favoritism.
Since prison inmates form a very small percentage of the population (inmates of religions other than Christianity an even smaller percentage), this action will likely have little in the way of repercussions.
Frankly the government should leave preaching to the officials from the church, mosque, synagogue... whatever.
Spend taxpayer dollars on ventures more worthwhile.
Doesn't matter about prison, outside of prison the non-christian religion people hearing about this will see it as favoritism.
Doesn't matter about prison, outside of prison the non-christian religion people hearing about this will see it as favoritism.
They probably will.
Lets see if enough of them care for their howls of outrage to be loud enough for the government to shift course.
Doesn't matter about prison, outside of prison the non-christian religion people hearing about this will see it as favoritism.
They probably will.
Lets see if enough of them care for their howls of outrage to be loud enough for the government to shift course.
Nothing like that, a few votes will change and it will likely become a part of an attack ad, that's about it.
Even the hardcore religious types that I know, think this is stupid.
I think it is time for Canada (all levels of government) to enact a complete break from religions. I honestly don't think that the voting ramifications would be all that severe.
Kind of like when Alberta was forced to allow same sex marriages...there was a collective shrug of shoulders (except for a very small minority of ass hats) and everybody moved on...even though we were touted as the most staunch anti-homosexuality province.
The ministry of religious freedom's job is to make sure everyone is free to choose Vic Toews' religion.
We can always count on you to knee-jerk over a headline.
Is selective reading anything like selective memory?