Gov't Agrees to Mandatory Homosexual Curriculum with No Opt-Out for Students or Parents

LifeSite ^ | June 1, 2006 | ry Vanderheyden and John-Henry Westen

[Man50D]

VANCOUVER, June 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A homosexual teacher and his same-sex partner who launched a human rights complaint with the British Columbia government have settled with the Government of British Columbia. According to the homosexual activist who launched a human rights suit, homosexual issues will soon be a mandatory part of school curricula taught in classrooms throughout the province, without the ability of students or parents to opt out.

BC's Ministry of Education and Ministry of the Attorney-General agreed to review the province's curricula to ensure that the issue of homosexuality is included in all so-called 'social justice' discussions - such as those involving racial inequality and women's rights. The decision was the result of a settlement reached with Murray and Peter Corren, who launched their formal human rights complaint in 1999, which alleged "systemic sexual discrimination" in the classroom.

However, a key element in the Corren complaint was the attempt to ensure that the courses teaching positively about homosexuality are mandatory, and that neither students nor parents are able to opt-out. Speaking at the time of the launch of the human rights action, last July, the activists' legal council, Tim Timberg, said, "The second issue is there's an opting-out provision in the curriculum that where a subject is deemed to be sensitive, the school teachers are under an obligation to in advance advise parents that they'll be raising a sensitive issue in the classroom."

Coquitlam teacher Murray Corren told the Vancouver Sun today that the settlement will also make it more difficult for students and parents to opt out of lessons dealing with sexual orientation.

Attorney-General Wally Oppal said Wednesday that the province was indeed shaping a new 'social justice' course that will incorporate the homosexual issues. "I think it's a fair settlement," he claimed. "We listened to their [the Correns'] complaints and we decided there was some merit in what they were suggesting." Oppal added that he hoped British Columbians were a "mature enough society" to accept "that there is an understanding that there is a place for this in our curriculum."

A press release from the BC Government notes that in addition to revamping the provinces educational curriculum to ensure it "reflects inclusion" for the homosexual lifestyle, the province is commencing immediately to offer an elective grade 12 course on "justice and equality" which will address "sexual orientation.

Corinna Filion, spokesman for the Ministry of Education told LifeSiteNews.com that the agreement included provisions to bar some parents and students who had been opting for home education or other arrangements on topics of sexuality. While the province will still allow parents and students those alternative options when it comes to sex education (health and career courses), students will be forced to remain in classes dealing with sexual orientation outside of sexual education in spite of any objections students or their parents my have.

"For example in social studies if they are reading a book about same sex families . . . the policy (of allowing for alternative arrangements) would not apply," explained Filion.

A copy of the agreement was not available to reporters by press time.

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage: B.C. Gay Couple Seeks Mandatory Homosexual School Curriculum Without Parental Opt-Out http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jul/05071106.html

[texgal]

My sentiment exactly. Why wait until I die to leave an inheritance for my children and grandchildren? I will pay, from my retirement savings if needed, for the grandkids to never have to enter the public school system. I've got 2 degrees and don't mind homeschooling them if that is needed.

If young parents will look into it, they will find that home schooling isn't really all that hard to do. There are home schooling associations and umbrella schools in churches here in Texas where home schoolers can take the testing required by the state and have their grades archived for transcripts later on.

Home schooling curricula are far superior to that of state schools. There are also a lot of former teachers out there, who were disgusted with public schools, available to tutor the kids in areas you may not feel competent.

[DCPatriot]

I actually agree with this idea.

We all remember the "different" boys and girls in our classrooms growing up in elementary and high school. The boys that couldn't climb a rope or threw a ball like a girl.

We've also heard that saying that children say the cruelest things to their peers. How many homosexuals growing up were subject to this type of environwment? How many were physcologically damaged?

I am against recognizing the union of homosexuals or lesbians as a marriage...which should be between a man and a woman.

But my own personal experience as an observer of people tells me they are born this way. It is only a choice in a sense that the alternative choice is celibacy or going through life with a mate to whom you are not sexually attracted.

[wintertime]

The American people could take back their schools through the elective process if they had the will to do it, but the system itself has seen to it that they don't have that will

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In the late 19th century, when government schools were first imposed on the American people, there were riots. Our ancestors understood the danger to our freedom that compulsory government schools presented.

The solution is not to "take back" our government schools. The solution is to eliminate them. Please remember that any government powerful enough to impose YOUR worldview on other people's children is powerful enough to impose homosexuality and godless Marxism-lite on yours.

Government schools need two things: Students and money. The key to destroying government schools is to starve them of both.
1) remove your children from government schools.
2) Encourage your churches to establish free or very low cost schools to their parishioners and to as many non-members as possible.
3) Go to the polls and vote NO to any money for government schools.
4) Support candidates that are anti-government schools.

Thankfully, our constitutionally based government is still strong enough that the above can still be accomplished peacefully.

[proudpapa]

Sounds like another good reason to Boycott the BC Winter Olympics in 2010

[Jotmo]

Whenever I hear this "They were born that way." argument, I want to say...So what?

. All men have a perfectly NATURAL desire to do every woman that they can get their hands on. It's still wrong and a sin.

Just because something a natural desire does not excuse you from the sin of acting on it.

[khnyny]

School vouchers. Can't say it enough - school vouchers. Let people choose, and it will starve the public school system of students. Jeb Bush tried to get this passed in Florida, but it got shot down. The teachers union is a very powerful lobby with lots of $$ and vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

[AmericanChef]

Chances are they were damaged prior to their personal discovery. Weak, neglectful, or abusive adults in a child's life are the most common causes of homosexuality, along with the child's perception of events. Homosexual men are generally close to their mothers and have issue with their fathers; most are constantly looking for a father figure, which is where the guy-"love" thing comes in. That's not what I call natural.

I know a gal with two homosexual brothers. She swears it's natural and they're just a regular family, but after this and that fact comes out you can see how strong the women in the family are, and how weak the men are; their father was never around much. My own family on my father's side, same story. Uncle is gay, my father had some feminine characteristics as well, and the women are all strong.

As far as getting picked on goes, I got picked on not only by school kids, but by my large pack of siblings. No one gave me special protection. Kids are cruel, and if they can't get you with one issue, they'll just try another.

[khnyny]

Forgot to add - vouchers would only work if there is NO government interference in private schools. None. Anything else, would be an insidious attempt to control private religious education.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Mandatory sodomite indoctrination classes. What's next?

[Man50D]

We all remember the "different" boys and girls in our classrooms growing up in elementary and high school. The boys that couldn't climb a rope or threw a ball like a girl.

Don't include me in this statement. Assuming a boy who has very little athletic ability is homosexual has as much credence as assuming someone who can't sing is homosexual. There are and have been professional athletes who are homosexual. There were a minority of boys in the school system I attended who were not athletically inclined but I never made the assumption you assert.

We've also heard that saying that children say the cruelest things to their peers.

I had comments made about my being short when I was in school but I didn't later in life force an agenda on people and attempt to indoctrinate them by giving them an ultimatum to be more sensitive or suffer the consequences of their insensitivity.

But my own personal experience as an observer of people tells me they are born this way. It is only a choice in a sense that the alternative choice is celibacy or going through life with a mate to whom you are not sexually attracted.

The question if homosexuality is a choice or innate is not the point. The point is there has been for many years organizations such as GLSEN, which stands for Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, to establish homosexual clubs on all school campuses and indoctrinate children, the majority of whom are heterosexual, by not only accepting the minority of homosexuals but also encouraging children to try homosexual acts.

There is a reason why a majority of Humanity is heterosexual. It must be heterosexual for Humanity to survive. Teaching children anything to the contrary is factually wrong and therefore immoral however you attempt to spin it. Your line of thinking is a slippery slope that will only encouraging these groups even more.

[little jeremiah]

Your "personal experience" is not the truth. No way. Your support for the homosexualization of children is cruel, hateful and just wrong.

DB - have you seen this article?

[zaxxon]

This is akin to the scene in A Clockwork Orange where the guy is forced to watch slime with clamped forcips holding his eyelids wide open.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

The preservation, expansion, and enumeration of the right of parents to homeschool their children now must be a primary objective of the conservative agenda.

Are Canadians presently permitted to homeschool their children?

[ARridgerunner]

ping

[robertpaulsen]

"But my own personal experience as an observer of people tells me they are born this way."

They are born to visit bathouses and have anonymous anal sex with multiple partners?

Wow! I bet the gene that causes that behavior stands out like a neon sign on the DNA strand!

[fanfan]

Canada ping!

Please FReepmail me to get on or off this ping list.

[DCPatriot]

Don't be an a$$hole.

No...on further consideration forget that.

Be an A$$HOLE! You read better that way.

[VOA]

Oh! Canada!

(actually this is a warning to us down here in the USA to fight this $#^^%@%@!)

[DCPatriot]

I am not speaking about somebody that acts on their urges or desires.

I'm speaking about humans being crosswired to the point that the opposite sex doesn't stir any sexual desire in them.

If there is a course taught in school that teaches that homosexuality exists in virtually all species, then perhaps there will be less hate crimes committed against them.

[DCPatriot]

My brother-in-law is a typical father.

He and my sister have three sons. The middle son experienced the same parenthood and he displayed different, effeminate qualities as a very young child.

Today, he's a successful gay man.

Therefore I disagree with your theory that abusive, neglectful adults causes homosexuality.

BTW, he's a lot more interesting to converse with than his siblings.