Friday, October 10, 2008

Canada's Religious Tolerance Put To Test

Samuel Wurz's people arrived in Canada to the promise of religious freedom. But 90 years later, they're afraid that freedom could be destroyed in the blink of a digital camera's eye.

As members of a traditional Hutterite community in southern Alberta, they believe being photographed is a sin. But that belief is becoming harder to sustain in a world obsessed with security.

The Alberta government is heading to the Supreme Court of Canada this week as part of its heated legal battle with the Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Colony over the province's photo driver's licence scheme.

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