On International Women's Day, a group of radical feminists vandalized Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Catholic cathedral, spray-painting anti-religious slogans, leaving condoms in the sanctuary, destroying paintings with soiled sanitary napkins, ripping pages out of hymnals, and stealing altar cloths. But a police spokesman said the vandals could not be prosecuted under the city's hate-crimes law because it did not apply to people who "in good faith" attempt "to establish by argument an opinion on a religious subject."

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