"Out of our polling station, Papist!"

Well, not quite. But a woman in Alberta was kept from voting in the school board election because she was -- technically -- Catholic. And we've got our own school boards and so forth in that province, so it wouldn't be fair, would it?

Weird part: "But the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association thinks the law is fine as it stands." If Catholics can take part in the secular school boards, maybe non-Catholics will decide they have a right to sit on the Catholic boards. Would they even want to? A few years ago, they wouldn't have. Now, it might be seen as a chance to "correct" what those darn Catholic schools are teaching about marriage.

We might say it was a mistake for the Church to set up school systems under the aegis of any government -- but the arrangement seemed to be working fine for most of its history. Anyway, where to go from here?

Meanwhile, let the lady vote. Her kids are in the public schools. She pays taxes. And if she loses any of her voting rights, mine aren't safe either.