Bishop Frederick Henry
Posted on 09/29/2005 1:52:37 PM PDT by NYer
CALGARY, September 29, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry has come out swinging again, this time warning that the normalization of same-sex “marriage” will “usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before.”
In a pastoral letter published in the Calgary Sun on September 11, Bishop Henry warned that “Same-sex marriage proponents use the language of openness, tolerance and diversity, yet the foreseeable effect of their success will be to usher in an era of intolerance and discrimination the likes of which we have rarely seen before.”
He warned that same-sex “marriage” and relations will be considered the norm, and that any school, for example, that fails to incorporate homosexual relations into their curricula, will be deemed discriminatory. “The impact of the social re-engineering is bound to filter down to school classrooms,” he wrote. “The educational impact of laws on attitudes is undeniable. Ordinary words such as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ will be replaced by ‘partner’ and ‘spouse.’ Children will have to be taught about homosexual acts. Every person and every religion that disagrees will be labelled as bigoted and openly discriminated against and dragged before Human Rights Commissions. Parents who complain will be branded as homophobes and their children will suffer.”
The bishop illustrates his point with the example of a same-sex BC couple who initiated a human rights suit alleging that their provincial ministry of education does not adequately “address issues of sexual orientation,” claiming that “there is systemic discrimination through omission and suppression of queer issues in the whole of the curriculum.” The complainants want the so-called queer studies to be mandatory, stripping parents of the right to pull children from the offending classes.
“Traditionally only those matters on which there was a large measure of consensus in society would be taught in the public school system,” Bishop Henry explained. “The rest was left to the home, to the church or to other institutions. The adoption of a new constitutional norm means that, in respect of homosexuality at least, this strategy is to be abandoned and students are to be confronted on the issues.”
Bishop Henry adds the example of Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36, where the Supreme Court refused a school board’s attempt to deny use of a kindergarten text that included positive portrayals of same-sex families. “The refusal was on the basis that a significant number of parents and others in the school district would consider them to be incompatible or inconsistent with their moral and religious beliefs on same-sex relationships,” the bishop explained. “The case marked a significant moment in the debate about parental rights in education.”
BC Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin wrote in her opinion, “Parental views, however, important, cannot override the imperative placed upon the British Columbia public schools to mirror the diversity of the community and teach tolerance and understanding of difference.”
Read the bishop’s letter in its entirety at:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/050929a.html
See also
“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022511.html
I hope Canada's Catholic's put up a good fight. Bishop Henry is a brave man.
Its a good thing Bishop Henry is not a nominee for the SCOTUS. He would be labelled as an "out of the mainstream, hard right homophobe".
Fight it Bishop Henry!
Yeah right, Canadian democracy can no longer permit independant thought. Government indoctrination programs must be given the force of law.
Obviously the man is guilty of hate speech under Canadian law, wonder when they arrest him?
He's probably going to be arrested for a hate crime. You can't say that about gays up there.
TRANSLATION: "You will think our way or you won't think at all".
I must say im very proud of Catholics in Spain, Canada and the Holy Father for saying it how it is. Viva Il Papa!
Prayers for the Catholics of Canada. They have a good man in Bishop Frederick Henry!
Good for him. Brave man!
You know, I used to scoff at pervs who accused normal people of wanting to round them up and put them in concentration camps.
Now I wonder if it wasn't just that they knew they were going to get obnoxious enough that people would want to.
Bears repeating and reprinting! There are also clear precedents for this, but it's become politically incorrect to cite them even here.
"The complainants want the so-called queer studies to be mandatory, stripping parents of the right to pull children from the offending classes."
40 years ago when I was a teenager there were "Chicken-Hawks" that preyed on teenage boys -- first with gifts and favors -- and then tried to convert/rape teenage boys.
Today they are called "Gay Activists" pushing the same Chicken-Hawk agenda. Things haven't changed too much in 40 years.
The PC movement has already done this to a great degree, and this will just make it worse.
"This is intolerable!"
I am about to lose it. How much of the population do the fags and lesbos make up? The way things are going in that God-forsaken country I would thinkg it would be over 50%. Just unbelievable.
I realize I should be more Christian in my discussion of these perverts, but this in-your-face crap is getting really old, really quick
Ping!
Political correctness has no fangs if it cannot stifle dissent with threat of legal action.
The despots have already decided all of the issues, we are only postponing the inevitable. Unless we are willing to rout them from our educational centers, courts, and political offices.
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