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...nation under God? As apathy and low moral confidence spread, Americans are increasingly advocating a publicly funded return to conventional religion. This trend, especially as it takes form in the school voucher movement, raises significant questions about violations of the First Amendment's separation between church and state, particularly if religious teaching is approved in government-funded schools...
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 and in its practices. Examining the examples of other nations should not require that we follow their policies in kind, but rather clarify the reasons for our distinction...
...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 school violates international law prohibiting discrimination. Canada, like Britain, has never endorsed the separation of church and state. Besides Catholic school funding in Ontario, all public schools in Quebec have either Protestant or Roman Catholic affiliation. Even so, international standards on religious discrimination have prevailed in Canadian public schools. The United Nation's court found Canada guilty and ordered that the Canadian government propose a solution to this injustice...
...France, separation of church and state is so strict that no symbolic expression of religious allegiance whatsoever is allowed in the nation's public schools. Muslim girls in hijabs, Jewish boys wearing yarmulkes and Hindu students in turbans have been banished from the schoolyard for their offensive religious headgear...
...United States, the separation of church and state is intended to substitute reflection and debate for the indoctrination of belief systems. School vouchers used for religious schools divorce the theory of the First Amendment from its logical application...