{"id":31013,"date":"2012-02-23T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_court_says_quebec_parents_cant_pull_students_out_of_religion_class\/"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:42:54","slug":"rns_court_says_quebec_parents_cant_pull_students_out_of_religion_class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31013","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Court Says Quebec Parents Can\u2019t Pull Students Out of Religion Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s highest court has ruled that children in Quebec schools cannot opt out of a course on ethics and world religions.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Feb. 17 unanimously rejected an appeal from Catholic parents who sought to keep their children out of the course because they felt that exposing them to a variety of religions would confuse them.<\/p>\n<p>The nine high court judges disagreed, saying that exposing children to beliefs and values that differ from their own is a fact of life in Canada&#8217;s  multicultural society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/court-says-quebec-parents-can-t-pull-students-out-of-religion-class-cms-19295\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s highest court has ruled that children in Quebec schools cannot opt out of a course on ethics and world religions. The Supreme Court on Feb. 17 unanimously rejected an appeal from Catholic parents who sought to keep their children<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31013\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,207,101,111,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-children","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}