Well the church would have offered their space for voting and aren't placing any restrictions on it. It seems just the same as any other place. I don't see it as sending any message. From what I've seen most voting centres seem to be churches and schools. This is due to the fact that there is usually one of them close to most people.

I'm a big advocate of seperatation of church and state, and I disagree with many of the Catholic Church's social policies and their methods of trying to impose them upon governments, but I don't see any problem with this situation.

I care. What if you are a member of a different religion and don't want to enter a catholic church? Why does the application to have your name added to the voters list ask if you are catholic but not any other religion?

Voting should happen in a neutral building so that everyone is comfortable to vote there. It doesn't matter that many of us see it as just a building. Many others will not see that.

When was the last time you were able to cast your vote in a Synogogue? A Mosque? A Sikh Temple?

These are all just buildings that tend to be close to alot of people as well and I am sure they would be more than happy to host a voting station. But for some reason, you never see a voting station there.

If you were Roman Catholic, how comfortable would you feel voting in a Sikh temple? How controversial would it be if they suddenly had a percentage of voting stations hosted by various Mosques? This would be headline news I suspect and all kinds of political activists would be there to support it and to protest against it. But a Catholic church is barely noticed.

Are you sure the Canadian constution says something about the separation of church and state? I don't ever remember seeing anything like that in there the last time I read it (which was a long time ago mind you).

Well at least our slogan isn't "In God We Trust".

Wait, they asked if you are catholic on the sheet?

Oh, well that's a different story. That's not right.