i strongly support state secularism and strongly support laws to restrict the display of religious symbols in the public service, but they have to be applied equally towards men and women, and used to restrict all religious symbols in the workplace, especially christian symbols. when they only apply towards women, they are not secularist principles anymore, they're tools of misogynist control.

the pq - and quebec society - is demonstrating a fatal level of hypocrisy that should unfortunately be decisive in repealing the appropriate legislation.

i would support declaring that the legislation is unconstitutional until it is amended to ensure it applies equally to men and women and bans male facial hair along with female scarves. they are both equally offensive and equally unacceptable in a truly secular society. that quebec is willing to tolerate male facial hair but not tolerate female scarves indicates it's not really about secularism, and i can no longer support it for that reason, nor should the courts uphold a set of rules based on such vicious double standards.

mr plamondon should be sent home without pay until he washes his face on two grounds:

(1) workplace hygienic standards

(2) state secularism rules