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20 July, 2004
20 July 2004An editorial in the Canadian National Post considers the human rights case of Harold Derksen, a B.C. adherent of the Christian Churches of God (CCG) fired because he refused to work on the new moon, which is a monthly religious observance in the CCG. Grouping the "obscure" church with Paganism and Wicca (a comparison the author seems to think speaks for itself), the Post comes to this conclusion: "There is a distinction to be made between legitimate religions and all the rest. It is not a distinction that we feel comfortable vesting in governments -- or even in ourselves. But it is one that ordinary people are equipped to make in their collective judgments concerning what companies are fit recipients of their labour and patronage. And it should be on this basis that employers decide which holidays to respect and which to ignore."
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