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Originally Posted by Daradon
You CHOOSE to wear that for your religion? Or rather, you CHOOSE that religion? In all seriousness, very good for you. But now it means you need to choose a different job. (Sport whatever)
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Now that you mention this, I wonder when we`ll hear a human rights complaint from a devout Sikh who wants to play in a hockey league with a mandatory helmet rule? There have already been challenges to, and exemptions from, manatory helmet laws for motorcycle riders in several jurisdictions. Not to mention the big dust-up over the issue of Kirpans in schools a couple of years ago.
I`m not trying to bash Sikhs specifically, but rather the fact that we`ve subjugated what the majority of Canadians believe to be reasonable and prudent behaviour in favour of an "anything goes" type of law.
Religion is a choice for which a follower must be prepared to be responsible. It is not a "human rights" issue, in my mind, unless it involves a factor that is inherent and unchangeable. Disability, skin colour, homosexuality, gender, all fall into that category. Religion should not.
Edit: I was reading Hitchens' "God is not Great" tonight, so I`m a little animated...and my keyboard is still in French, which is why most of my apostrophes are backwards.