AFT Bulletin, 2020-08-04

On-Line Event: “Why We Support Bill 21”

Saturday, 8^th August 2020, 2–4 pm

Title: “Why We Support Bill 21”
Speaker: David Rand, President of Atheist Freethinkers
Language: English
Technology: Zoom
The talk will be followed by questions and open discussion.

Overview of the Talk

• Secularism: The importance of a full and clear definition
• The Principle of Separation: Essential
• Religious Neutrality: The Strong, the Weak and the Fake
• Advantages of Bill 21
• Weaknesses of Bill 21
• Constitutional Issues: Canadian Charter, Constitution of 1982, “Notwithstanding” Clause
• The Endless Manoeuvres of Anti-Secularists:
  • Conflating “race” and religion: threatening freedom of conscience
  • Conflating beliefs and believers: condemning criticism of religion
  • Various tricks and nonsense: religious “obligations,” “racialized” persons, “Islamophobia,” etc.
  • Tyranny of the majority or tyranny of the minority?
• Quebec: In the Secular Vanguard of the Americas

Register for the AFT On-Line Event, 2020-08-08

OPEN TO ALL. FREE. IN ENGLISH.
We encourage you to donate to our Legal Fund

All participants must use a video camera and show their face throughout the meeting.

This same talk was given in French on 11^th July 2020. You may consult the materials from that talk on our French-language website.

Legal Fund: Fundraising Campaign
for our Court Intervention in Support of Bill 21

We, Atheist Freethinkers, will ask the Quebec Superior Court to allow us to intervene in the court case involving Quebec Bill 21, An Act respecting the laicity of the State, defended by the Attorney-General of Quebec. Our intervention will be as a friend and in support of Bill 21, that is for secularism.

We seek the support and solidarity of anyone who, like us, supports secularism and recognizes the landmark importance of Bill 21 and the necessity of defending it against the well-funded and reactionary forces who are attempting to turn back the tide of secularization of the Quebec State. We ask you therefore to donate to our legal fund so we may complete this process. Any amount, big or small, is welcomed and appreciated.

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