B.C. Legislature changes rules to allow secular ‘reflections’ to open proceedings GlobeBC
British Columbia Lieutenant Governor Janet Austin delivers the Speech from the Throne in the B.C. Legislature in Victoria, on Feb. 12, 2019.British Columbia’s Legislature has changed its rules to formally allow “reflections” to open proceedings each day, in addition to prayer, amid a debate about the place of religion in Canadian assemblies.
“We knew that it was coming,” she said of the rule change. “It’s time the description of it, though, caught up with what was actually happening."Still, Ms. Polak defended keeping prayer in the Legislature, which she said is important to “represent what we’ve got in Canada, which is freedom of religion. We live in a multicultural society, and no place is that better represented than in the Legislature.
Ranil Prasad, campaign manager and board member of the association, said the move was a “small victory.” The research team coded the prayers based on structure, content and religiosity. Mr. Prasad said they looked for specific keywords and phrases in the prayers such as “in Jesus’ name,” “our Heavenly Father,” and “amen” to categorize them as religious – and, in these cases, as Christian.
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