REPEALING A LAW
Quebec is a mostly French-speaking province of Canada, and Montreal is its chief city. In 2022, Quebec passed a language reform law whose goal is to “limit government communications in languages other than French.” Last month, two bilingual (French and English) Montreal suburbs filed a court challenge to elements of this law, saying that it violates constitutional law allowing local governments to use languages other than French. The challenge also seeks to repeal an element of the new law that says that French is Quebec’s official language.
DEAD TO THE LAW
Today’s passage in Romans contains Paul’s metaphor that a wife whose husband dies is free to marry another without the Jewish law declaring her an adulteress. His intent is to show that Christians are free from the authority of the Old Testament law and are rightfully bound to Jesus as their new Lord.
Questions
- What are the pros and cons of requiring official government communication to be only in a certain language?
- What freedoms does a person gain by coming to Christ?
- Why do we sometimes gravitate to rules and legalism, even as Christians?
