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Homosexual Activists Consider Targeting Private Christian Schools for "Homophobia"
Lifesite ^ | 2/27/2007 | Gudrun Schultz

Posted on 02/27/2007 3:48:31 PM PST by markomalley

OTTAWA, Ontario, February 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ontario private schools are coming increasingly under the lens of homosexual activist groups for "homophobic" teaching stemming from the schools' primarily religious foundations, a report in Ottawa's homosexual news media indicated earlier this week.

In an article warning about the increasing trend toward private and religious schools in the province, Ottawa's Capital Xtra objected to religious schools that teach children "only their own values."

The article quotes Tony Lovink, a homosexual Christian teacher in the Ottawa public school system, as saying, "All private schools tend to be at least implicitly homophobic. And I would say all religiously formed independent schools are definitely homophobic."

The Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario said they were concerned the provincial ministry of education wasn't "exerting more control" over the curriculum used by private religious schools. Unless a school wants to grant students government-recognized Secondary School Diplomas, Ontario private schools are free to use their preferred curriculum. Even schools that do grant the government diplomas may teach any additional material they choose, so long as the required curriculum is covered.

As well, the CLGRO objected to provincial standards that permit private schools to hire teachers based on the school administration's own qualification requirements.

In October 2006 the Quebec government ordered private Christian schools in the province to begin teaching sex education and Darwinism in compliance with the provincial curriculum, threatening schools with closure if they failed to comply.

Dr. Janet Epp Buckingham, then-director of law and public policy with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, told LifeSiteNews at the time that parents’ right to educate their children in accordance with their religious beliefs is protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In 1986 the Supreme Court ruled that although an Alberta pastor who was running a school out of the basement of his church did have to license the school, the provincial government had to provide reasonable accommodation for religious belief.

The court ruled that the province must “‘delicately and sensitively weigh the competing interests so as to respect as much as possible the religious convictions as guaranteed by the Charter,’” Dr. Epp Buckingham quoted.

In an ongoing battle over homosexual content in BC public school curriculums, parents are struggling to gain assurance from the school board that they may withdraw their children from pro-homosexual content in the classroom.

Homosexual activists Murray Corren and Peter Corren were granted an unprecedented say over the development of new pro-homosexual content in the provincial curriculum, as part of settlement in a human rights lawsuit against the province's Liberal government in June 2006. The agreement also introduced a policy that would prevent parents from withdrawing their children from the classroom when the material was being taught.

The Catholic Civil Rights League is continuing efforts to ensure all 60 BC school boards acknowledge parents' rights to oversee the education of their children.


TOPICS: Canada; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: catholic; deviates; duncanhunter; giuliani; homosexual; homosexualagenda; perversion; propaganda; schools
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Coming to a parochial school near you!
1 posted on 02/27/2007 3:48:32 PM PST by markomalley
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To: NYer; Salvation; narses; Pyro7480; Coleus; Campion

Catholic ping to your lists!


2 posted on 02/27/2007 3:49:22 PM PST by markomalley (Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley
PLEASE I BEG you--Do this all over Canada and the US!

Hello Republican landslide in 2008!

3 posted on 02/27/2007 3:49:43 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Republican, Bostonian, Bush supporter, atheist, pro-lifer)
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To: markomalley
Tony Lovink, a homosexual Christian...

Oxymoron of the highest magnitude.

4 posted on 02/27/2007 3:49:59 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
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To: markomalley

Here we go.


5 posted on 02/27/2007 3:51:06 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: COEXERJ145
Oxymoron of the highest magnitude.

With an emphasis on the "moron" part.

6 posted on 02/27/2007 3:51:08 PM PST by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: markomalley
Where does it say that I cannot HATE lima beans?

Where does it say that I cannot have my own thoughts about who and what I like or don't like.

Maybe it says I can't refuse to rent to whomever.....doesn't say I can't hate them.
7 posted on 02/27/2007 3:53:04 PM PST by Battle Axe (Repent for the coming of the Lord is nigh!)
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Ottawa's Capital Xtra objected to religious schools that teach children "only their own values." Somebody really needs to turn in his sense of irony for an overhaul.
8 posted on 02/27/2007 3:53:30 PM PST by Titan Magroyne ("Y'know, I've always thought of politics as show business for ugly people." Jay Leno:Al Gore 11/29)
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"All private schools tend to be at least implicitly homophobic. And I would say all religiously formed independent schools are definitely homophobic."

All schools SHOULD be homophobic. There is much to be very afraid of.

9 posted on 02/27/2007 3:54:10 PM PST by montag813
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To: Siobhan; Canticle_of_Deborah; NYer; Salvation; sandyeggo; american colleen; Desdemona; ...

Catholic ping!


10 posted on 02/27/2007 3:54:14 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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To: markomalley

Excuse me please while I bang my head against my desk repeatedly...


11 posted on 02/27/2007 3:54:25 PM PST by The Blitherer (What the devil is keeping the Yanks? Duncan Hunter for President '08!)
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To: markomalley

>>>The agreement also introduced a policy that would prevent parents from withdrawing their children from the classroom when the material was being taught.<<<

YOUR CHILDREN DO NOT BELONG TO YOU.


12 posted on 02/27/2007 3:54:27 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: markomalley; Peach; Hildy; Spiff; Brad's Gramma

Go Rudy!! Clean up our schools! Don't let the homosexual agenda dictate to Americans like they do in Canada!


13 posted on 02/27/2007 3:54:27 PM PST by Jim Robinson (It's "originalists" not "constructionists.")
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To: markomalley

I'd like to see them go to the madrassas.


14 posted on 02/27/2007 3:55:33 PM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: ishabibble

"YOUR CHILDREN DO NOT BELONG TO YOU."

And private really means with full government oversight and permission....


15 posted on 02/27/2007 3:57:26 PM PST by CheyennePress
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To: markomalley
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16 posted on 02/27/2007 3:57:44 PM PST by pipecorp ( Al Lahsucks boat steersman hell)
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To: Jim Robinson

Into goading a little bit aren't you? I love it!


17 posted on 02/27/2007 4:08:31 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Jim Robinson

I don't get your connection here, Jim. You think Rudy would think this is ok?


18 posted on 02/27/2007 4:08:36 PM PST by Hildy (RINO - Rudy Is Number One!!)
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To: wagglebee; WKB

ping


19 posted on 02/27/2007 4:16:18 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: COEXERJ145

Boy you got that right.....


20 posted on 02/27/2007 4:17:38 PM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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