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Comparing Canada's and France's stance on the relation of church and state with the public funding that they provide to religious schools will help us understand where American priorities should lie on this issue. It is important to realize that the United States is unique in its philosophy...
In determining how recent court decisions here relate to international norms, let's first look to our neighbors, or should we say neighbours, to the North. On Nov. 5 the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled on the question of whether Ontario's funding of an exclusively Roman Catholic denominational...
Our school voucher system does not discriminate between religions as blatantly as Ontario's or Quebec's school funding does. Public scholastic funding is not distributed to any specific religious group. Vouchers may be used for the sectarian schools of any religion, or conversely, for private schools of no religious...
We should not be censoring ourselves with recently developed international codes, but holding ourselves to our time-tested habit of keeping religious authority at a distant arm's length. Permitting vouchers to be used at sectarian schools--irrespective of their religious affiliation--is a departure from that habit.
A voucher policy does not assure that students will be able to attend a school of their particular religion, especially in the case of minority religions. Consequently, our government would thereby discriminate, albeit unintentionally, by not providing religious education to all groups.