[little jeremiah]

Placemark for pingout and why would the Principal get in trouble for this??

[Houghton M.]

Because Canadian Catholic schools get government (province) funding big time—part of the whole Canuck multi-culti (superior to the Yanks and their melting pot) and valorize-the-French-culture-out-of-guilt-over-the-British-conquest shtick.

And because the culture stupidly reduces the abortion debate to politics rather than a fundamental human rights issue. Ironically, the gays have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in portraying their cause as one of civil rights while the abortion issue has been successfully transformed, in the minds of most mindless North Americans to a right-wing/left-wing, partisan, sectarian political issue.

[Campion]

Catholic schools in Canada are semi-public, part of the consequence of not having a First Amendment, and having a large formerly-Catholic Francophone minority, which traditionally has demanded that their language, culture, and religion get special treatment.

Ironically, the big anti-Catholic-schools push that took place in the US in the late 19th Century, which enacted laws and court decisions that prevented anything like the Canadian situation from occurring here ... starts to look like a very good thing in this day and age of militant government secularism.