Melançon: Es ist Zeit, religiöse Namen aus unseren öffentlichen Schulen zu entfernen

Interesting logic : a judge actively practicing their religion while in court supposedly threatens the neutrality of the state about the same as a school name inherited from the 1950s?

That only works if you pretend that historical heritage and active religious expression are the same thing. But they aren’t, period. A name carved in stone isn’t someone practicing religion or influencing anyone. It’s just a relic of Quebec’s history. Just like thousands of place names across the province.

At the end of the day, this isn’t really an argument about secularism. It reads more like the usual gazette formula: take a policy you don’t like, stretch the idea of a “contradiction“ until it snaps, and call it commentary. If symbolic history now counts as religious practice, then the Quiet Revolution apparently didn’t secularize Quebec… it just forgot to rename the entire map? And the fact that the gazette runs this as if it exposes some deep inconsistency says more about the paper editorial standards than it does about Quebec’s school names.