Canadian School Board Proposes Elaborate Religious Guidelines

In Canada, Ontario's Hamilton-Wentworth school district has posted for comment an elaborate and interesting 11-page set of guidelines for religious accommodation in the schools. (Full text). Life Site News last week reported, however, that conservative Christian groups are criticizing the guidelines because of the guidelines' definition of what constitutes a protected religious creed:

Creed does not include secular, moral, or ethical beliefs or political convictions. This policy does not extend to religions that incite hatred or violence against other individuals or groups, or to practices and observances that purport to have a religious basis, but which contravene international human rights standards or criminal law.

The head of the local Family Action Council contends that this language: "unjustly discriminates against Christians by re-defining religion to exclude moral beliefs."