• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    controversial amendment that would remove a religious exemption for hate speech from the Criminal Code.

    How is that controversial?

    Leader Pierre Poilievre posted on social media that the change would “criminalize sections of the Bible, Qur’an, Torah and other sacred texts.”

    Again, how is that a bad thing?

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      4 days ago

      I suspect religious people would be irritated if their texts were labelled as hate speech. It would be politically a bad move if this turned out to be the case. That’s why it’s a “bad thing.”

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          4 days ago

          what do you mean by “entirely a private matter”? people go to church; churches post things on social media; etc.

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            Those are all private, not public life.

            They leave their religion at the door when they leave their house or place of worship and it’s not in their lives until they go back to one of those places.