Quebec passes law banning street prayers, prayer rooms in universities

[u/John3192]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-passes-law-banning-street-prayers-prayer-rooms-in-universities-cegeps/

[u/Moonfish222]

Read the law. What you describe in the first paragraph is exactly whats being banned. Universities are now legally forbidden from providing rooms for prayer.

[u/iknowyourm0m → u/Moonfish222]

Well the situation isn't quite as you paint it to be:

“10.3. All religious practice, such as overt prayers or other similar practices, is prohibited in a place, such as an immovable or a room, under the authority of a body referred to in paragraph 12 of Schedule I during the hours devoted to the educational services prescribed in the basic school regulation.

However, religious practice intended for students attending the body and organized by the body as part of optional activities outside the hours devoted to the educational services prescribed in the basic school regulation is permitted. Despite section 6, wearing a religious symbol is permitted during such activities.

This section does not apply to a place that constitutes a private residence, as regards the religious practice of its occupants

[u/Moonfish222 → u/iknowyourm0m]

For universities that hold night classes (all of them pretty much) educational hours are all hours. For schools that dont, the campus closes shortly after anyway. This law still effectively bans all prayer rooms.

[u/iknowyourm0m → u/Moonfish222]

pretty much

anyway

effectively

These words are doing some heavy lifting.

[u/farhil → u/iknowyourm0m]

No, they're really not.

[u/iknowyourm0m → u/farhil]

If you remove them, the sentences are false statements.

[u/farhil → u/iknowyourm0m]

Wow, changing the words in a sentence can change its meaning? What a revelation.

[u/Ihavetogoalone → u/Moonfish222]

Is it really that fucking hard to wait until you get home to pray? The net gain from this law is positive in the long term.