The Young Turks

The idea of "state sponsorship" means, to me at least, the state actively propagating the religion. The Canadian state does not propagate Catholicism as the state's religion, but it does support the funding of the Catholic school board (at least in Ontario), which begs the question, is that state sponsorship? To me, at least, the idea of state sponsorship is more akin to Iran or Saudi Arabia than Canada. I do not personally believe that merely funding the school board means that the state sponsors the religion, especially considering that the Catholic school board is still forced to teach secular issues like evolution (which we learned). The only substantive difference is that we prayed, had class on Christianity and eventually "world religions", we were taught sex education with a more religious bent, and we had a in-house priest and chapel. Now it all depends on how you define, "state sponsorship" and what values you put into the term. 

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