A "victory for religious freedom" in Quebec

This is, I think, good news:  A judge in Quebec has invalidated -- calling it "totalitarian" -- a requirement that Quebec had imposed on Catholic schools that the schools teach a state-crafted-and-controlled "Ethics & Religious Culture" course from a "neutral" perspective:

"The obligation imposed on Loyola to teach ERC subjects from a secular perspective takes on a totalitarian character that is essentially equivalent to the order that the Inquisition gave Galileo to renounce the Copernican cosmology," he wrote in his 63-page decision that is a masterpiece of legal thinking.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Being+neutral+religion+involves+making+choice/3188853/story.html#ixzz0ru8j3mM3