Prometheus The Supremo
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Point taken. But like I said, it's a very slippery slope to go down. We could well have folks with those views working at those very ministries right now. We don't ask them their religious views when the seek employment with the Government of Canada. That would be discrimination. All I am saying is that it's a dangerous precedent to start assessing an individual's suitability for a job based on that person's closely held religious views.
Your position is reasonable only if you are suggesting that we should be allowed discriminate for some jobs and screen out people based on their personal religious views. Although, our laws don't allow for that kind of discrimination, the political vetting process does allow for that. Perhaps, our political parties should actively discriminate when picking ministers. Some fairly blanket restrictions come to mind: No religious Christians should be Science Ministers, Muslims should not become Public Safety Ministers, and to avoid perpetuating the stereotypes we should try and keep Jews out of the Finance or Revenue portfolios, and Whites need not apply to become Immigration or Heritage Ministers. I think you get the picture of where discriminating on fairly scant evidence and based on somebody's personal religious views could lead us.
i didn't say we should ban someone from working in a field based on their religion. denying evolution is not a religion, neither is believing creationism. i never said we should ban a person from being a minister of science just because they're christian.
to answer the bolded part of your quote, that is not a fair comparison.
being christian doesn't make you anti-science (being a creationist does)
being muslim doesn't make you a terrorist or sympathetic to terrorist causes (being a member or supporter of al-qaeda does)
being jewish doesn't make a person greedy for money.
being white doesn't make you a racist (being a member of the KKK or sympathetic to that cause; does)