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Offended at city hall, atheist putting faith in human-rights complaint
Tony Governo says Winnipeg city council needs to end the practice of praying. PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
By: Kristin Annable
Posted: 09/28/2016 5:24 PM
Last Modified: 09/28/2016 8:26 PM
A Winnipeg atheist plans to file a human-rights complaint over prayers at city hall.
Citing last year's Supreme Court of Canada ruling that reciting a Catholic prayer at council meetings infringes on freedom of conscience and religion, Tony Governo says Winnipeg city council needs to end the practice.
"I dread that word (prayer); it is like nails on a chalk board for me," said Governo, a member of Humanists, Atheists and Agnostics of Manitoba. "It is a charter right and being a charter right, it means the state cannot tell you to do something that you do not want to do."
Governo attended Wednesday's council meeting and when Speaker Devi Sharma asked everyone to stand for the opening prayer, he immediately questioned why he had to stand and why it was called a prayer.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/offended-at-city-hall-atheist-putting-faith-in-human-rights-complaint-395181681.html
http://mbhumanistsatheists.ca/city-flouts-supreme-court-ruling-on-prayer/
