Non-Christian prison chaplains chopped by Ottawa

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The federal government is cancelling the contracts of non-Christian chaplains at federal prisons, CBC News has learned.

Inmates of other faiths, such as Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jews, will be expected to turn to Christian prison chaplains for religious counsel and guidance, according to the office of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who is

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[kcountess]

Ugh, I heard about this on the CBC this morning. They were interviewing someone from that gov't department on "The House" (didn't catch her name, but obviously not Vic Toews) and she was driving me batty with her circular non-answers.

The host kept trying to get her to answer how, if all the full-time chaplains were some Christian denomination, it wasn't discrimination, but she just kept repeating that they would have "non-denominational" chaplains. She either didn't seem to get to point or want to answer with where these non-denominational chaplains were going to come from, as I imagine that would require firing the full-time chaplains too and hiring new ones, or giving the current chaplains a lot of retraining.

[kyra_neko_rei]

If they're making the remaining chaplains "interfaith chaplains," why why WHY keep all the Christians and fire all the others? This seems like a double standard here, that having an interfaith chaplain of a different religious background is fine for non-Christians, but for a Christian to have to go to an interfaith chaplain who isn't Christian is unthinkable.

Methinks somebody is thinking with their privilege.