I just realized the National Post has a religion blog called Holy Post (AMAZING)that I'm going to be web-stalking here on in. This article is by Barbara Kay on religious symbols in public schools. While I'm not for displays of religious authority in public schools (cross above chalkboard, etc.), I think it's damaging to limit the religious expression of students. We can't forget that often religious expression is synonymous with cultural expression, and Kay's statement, "group bonding at school is best accelerated and reinforced by as much external sameness as possible," screams a kind of forced assimilation based on identity loss. External sameness?? Group bonding? This isn't a defense of secular society, this is a propagation of total visual uniformity and socialized group think. I definitely don't want to be in Kay's described scenario- the beauty of a (potential) secular society is that everyone could march to their own beat. Thoughts?