{"id":40048,"date":"2013-09-13T21:14:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_charter_of_quebec_values_would_ban_overt_religious_symbols\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T21:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:14:35","slug":"rns_charter_of_quebec_values_would_ban_overt_religious_symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40048","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Charter of Quebec Values would ban \u201d\u02dcovert\u2019 religious symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec\u2019s government this week introduced its much-discussed Charter of Quebec Values, which would ban \u201covert and conspicuous\u201d\u009d religious symbols worn by government employees.<\/p>\n<p>Pushing the twin ideals of secularism and separation from Canada, the Parti Quebecois\u2019 plan would prohibit public employees from wearing large crosses and crucifixes, Islamic headscarves, Sikh turbans and Jewish yarmulkes as a way to establish \u201creligious neutrality\u201d\u009d in public.<\/p>\n<p>The prohibitions would apply to civil servants, teachers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses and public day care employees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/09\/12\/charter-quebec-values-ban-overt-religious-symbols\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec\u2019s government this week introduced its much-discussed Charter of Quebec Values, which would ban \u201covert and conspicuous\u201d\u009d religious symbols worn by government employees. Pushing the twin ideals of secularism and separation from Canada, the Parti Quebecois\u2019 plan would prohibit public<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40048\">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":[39,40,50,207,168,133,114,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40048","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=40048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}