Freedom of Religionists
Since freedom of religion in Canada has pretty clearly in these modern heretic times come to mean the right to discriminate against your fellow citizens, why is it still considered a valid concept worth protecting? Because it seems to me that freedom of religion, and the attendant argument for it, consistently comes into direct conflict with the rights of women, homosexuals, divorced people - anyone who doesn't fall within a category defined as worthy-not-to-be-discriminated-against by most religious institutions - to not be discriminated against. And since the right to not be discriminated against based on your religion is pretty much covered under our anti-discrimination laws, why are we turning those same laws upside down and inside out to allow religious institutions to discriminate against women, homosexuals, divorced people, whoever doesn't fit their completely arbitrary out-of-date man-made made-up worthiness templates?
