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Doing away with the lord's prayer in Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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| Jem_hadar |
The lord's prayer may be abolished in ontario legislature...
Do away with it (outdated; separation of church and state)?
Or keep it (tradition)?
I say annex it! Lets keep government affairs free of religion.
Discuss -- what say you?
Go here:
http://www.ontla.on.ca
to have your say in the matter. Your feedback and comments are wanted by the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Click on the "Consultation on prayer in the Legislative Assembly" link in the middle of the page (3rd link down).
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Consultation on prayer in the Legislative Assembly
Invitation to Ontarians from the Honourable Steve Peters, MPP
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
A Panel of Members of the Legislative Assembly has been convened to review the traditional practice of reciting prayers at the opening of each business day of the Legislature.
I am the chair of the Panel, which consists of one MPP from each Party represented in the Legislature. The Members are Bas Balkissoon, MPP (Liberal Party), Garfield Dunlop, MPP (Progressive Conservative Party) and Cheri Di Novo, MPP (New Democratic Party).
Please submit your thoughts to the Panel in the form below.
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Your voice matters; it counts! |
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| Jem_hadar |
I left my name and comments.
Done. |
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| patpicos |
| toss religion....from everywhere! :) |
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| Intangible |
Canada = multiculturism
Our government should represent this as well.
Therefore, goodbye Lord's Prayer. |
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| Abercrombie |
| Political correctness must have its limits... there's more important issues to focus on, and all this is political bs waste of time and my taxpayer's money. |
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| Jungle Fever |
| Abolish it already! |
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| Djsketchbag |
The world needs less religion and more Tom Cruise!
p.s if some could post that gif of TC and Oprah |
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| Jayx1 |
This is traditional. We founded this country on traditions that intertwined with christian ideas. Our traditions reflect our founding, not necissarly the present.
As we were a french/english society at confederation, our traditions are also english/french. Im willing to bet that if our country had the same percentage of chinese canadians back then, one of our official languages would also be chinese. You see my point?
Keep our traditions as they were. Immigrants who are offended should have known better before they got here. Canada was founded under British Protestant values and symbols which also absorbed many french catholic ideas into the fold. As such our traditions and symbols reflect this and always should. |
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| rabbitjoker |
| I emailed them to keep it. |
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| Tordan |
| ^^ i do agree with you, jay. but as you said, the french catholic ideals were absorbed as well. there have been many people of different cultures and faiths that have helped canada flourish into what it is today. their faiths can't be represented in the legislature simply because there are too many of them. so getting rid of religion from politics altogether is a good idea. i know it's tough letting go of the founding ideals but canada has done a decent job of being progressive and this step is in keeping with that. |
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| rabbitjoker |
The purpose of the prayer is not to inject religion into the legislature.
The purpose of the prayer is to have the MPPs reflect on their duties to the moral code and their responsibility to govern with respect to the "golden rule" before they do their day's work. |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
This is traditional. |
Just because something is traditional doesn't mean it should be kept in place.
At one time, slavery was a traditional practice in the southern US states. |
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