Public Prayer and Cultural Tensions

Keep your prayers in your places of worship.” That is the message coming from the province of Québec. With their commitment to state-neutrality regarding religion, the government of Québec is looking to table a bill that will ban prayer in public places. What has led up to this move? How do we square secularism with the freedom of religion? Is religious pluralism a good thing? Can the State be neutral and, if so, how?

Tune in this week as we discuss a topic that will be of interest not only to Canadians but to all who live under a liberal democracy.