Posted on 05/07/2021 7:02:29 PM PDT by ebb tide
TORONTO, May 7, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) voted last night to declare June “Pride Month” and to fly the homosexual rainbow “Pride” flag at all schools within the board for the entire month of June in defiance of Catholic moral teaching that warns against the spiritual dangers of homosexual behavior and in defiance of the local Archbishop’s directives on the matter.
“With this vote, the TCDSB stepped into apostasy. It is no longer Catholic,” Jack Fonseca of Canada’s pro-life and pro-family organization Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews.
“Watching the trustees debate last night, I couldn’t believe that I was witnessing an official arm of the Roman Catholic Church agree to celebrate sexual sin. It was horrifying,” he added.
The vote comes in the wake of the TCDSB’s newly-established “2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee” recommending that the board proclaim June as Pride month and that the Pride flag be raised “at the Catholic Education Centre and at all schools in the system.”
Declaring June as Pride month “implores us to be compassionate, welcoming, and inclusive of marginalized people, including 2SLGBTQ+, as an example of our faith in action,” the pro-LGBT Committee stated in a report submitted to the board for the meeting last night.
The recommendations passed 7-5. Delegations at the meeting — which ended about 2 a.m. — included former Ontario Premier and current MPP Kathleen Wynne, a lesbian who as former Education Minister a decade ago was responsible for launching the pro-homosexual Equity and Inclusive Education (EIE) strategy that encouraged school boards to participate in Gay Pride parades, use texts by homosexual authors, and introduce into schools gay-straight alliance clubs. Pro-homosexual Toronto City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam also made a delegation.
The Board of Trustees has voted in favour of proclaiming Pride Month every June starting in 2021; & that the Pride flag be flown at the Board office & all #TCDSB schools for the month of June. — Toronto Catholic District School Board (@TCDSB) May 7, 2021
Another delegate was Fr. Michael Simoes, a local priest and chaplain for the Vatican-approved ministry to homosexuals called Courage. He told trustees that declaring June as Pride month and flying the Pride flag would amount to “fatally undermining the mission of the TCDSB.”
“Everywhere (the Pride flag is) raised, traditional beliefs about life and family are compromised and eventually suppressed. And the brave souls who defend those beliefs are vilified, hounded and marginalized,” he said.
There were some trustees such as Nancy Crawford, Michael Del Grande, and Teresa Lubinski who made the case that to fly the Pride flag would mean to support sexual behaviors that are at odds with Catholic sexual moral teaching.
“The Pride Flag and the Pride movement go against our Catholic faith in many ways,” said Trustee Crawford at one point during the meeting.
Trustees Garry Tanuan and Joe Martino joined the above-mentioned trustees in voting against flying the Pride flag at school. Martino, however, voted in favor of flying the flag at the board’s Catholic Education Center and recognizing Pride Month.
The Trustees who voted in favor of the pro-LGBT recommendations include Frank D’Amico, Markus De Domenico, Daniel Di Giorgio, Norm Di Pasquale, Angela Kennedy, Ida Li Preti, and Maria Rizzo.
Teresa Pierre, president of Parents as First Educators, said that the outcome of last night’s meeting means that the “sex-ed agenda has taken another step in swallowing up the Toronto Catholic District School Board.”
“Last night, contrary to thousands of parents who voiced their opposition, and in defiance of a letter from Toronto’s own Catholic Cardinal Archbishop, the motion to fly the ‘Pride Flag’ at all board schools during the month of June passed,” she wrote in an email to parents.
Pierre was referring to a letter sent to the board this week from the Archdiocese of Toronto, where Cardinal Thomas Collins is Archbishop, that advised the TCDSB against voting to fly the Pride flag at its schools in June.
The Archdiocese stated in its letter that parents “make a clear choice when they decide that their children will attend a Catholic school. They rightly expect that trustees, principals, teachers — all partners in education — will ensure that Catholic teaching is presented, lived and infused in all that we do.”
Commented Pierre about last night’s vote: “Whatever happened to parents know best? Whatever happened to parents get to decide?”
“Shame on them,” she said about the trustees who voted in favor of the recommendations.
Fonseca told LifeSiteNews that Catholic parents within the board have been betrayed by those elected to safeguard Catholic education.
“Everybody knows that the Gay Pride flag and ‘Pride Month’ represent ideologies that embody the rejection of Christian doctrine,” he said. “The gay Pride flag represents the belief that homosexual relationships are equivalent to biblical marriage. It represents support for the adoption of children by homosexuals which places them in permanently and obligatorily fatherless or motherless situations. It represents the belief that sodomy and other same-sex sex acts are morally acceptable and not sinful.”
“These ideologies are diametrically opposed to Catholic doctrine and Christian anthropology of the human person. They are evil,” he added.
Fonseca said that faithful Catholics owe thanks to Trustee Del Grande and Father Simoes for giving during the meeting “prophetic witness to Catholic moral teaching, and to the reality denied by proponents on the other side, that embracing Gay Pride will result in persecution of the faithful, division, and serve as an anti-witness to the Gospel.”
He also criticized Cardinal Collins for not doing enough to protect Catholic schools and the children who attend them from the advancement of the homosexual agenda.
“The Cardinal’s May 4 letter to the board was half-hearted. The last paragraph gave the dissident trustees an out, by essentially saying they could do what they want. The Cardinal did not threaten to impose any penalty on the board or individual trustees. The pending apostasy was grave enough that Cardinal Collins could easily have warned trustees, either privately or publicly, that they would face excommunication if they voted to embrace the sin-laden secular symbol.”
LifeSiteNews reached out to the Archdiocese for comment about the TCDSB vote last night but did not receive a response.
Fonseca said that parents within the board must take a bold stand over this matter to fight for their Catholics schools. He said that Campaign Life Coalition will work to elect faithful Catholics to replace all eight of the trustees who voted for the measures. “With a majority, this evil policy could be retracted,” he said.
He also said that pressure could be brought to bear on Cardinal Collins to “support the creation of an alternate, private Catholic school system run by faithful Catholic teachers, nuns and priests.” He also pointed out that there are also legal avenues of redress that have been already laid out by Catholic lawyer Geoff Cauchi.
“The legal path laid out by Cauchi could be explored which suggested a class action type lawsuit against the board seeking remedy against trustees who voted to violate the constitution mandate of Catholic schools. This path would require at least one, and ideally, multiple Catholic electors in Toronto to step forward as plaintiffs,” he said.
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Ping
Conquered territory
Just like the ISIS flag
Remember when they said it was just about the actions of consenting adults in private? So why are they publicly showing allegiance to this political agenda in schools with minors?
I didn’t know catholics took it up the butt.
“Slouching toward Gomorrah, “
Opening:
You may be familiar with the word “bork” — which one online dictionary defines as to “obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) through systematic defamation or vilification.” That, as you might remember, happened to District of Columbia Court of Appeals judge Robert Bork back in 1987 after Ronald Reagan nominated him for the Supreme Court that summer. As his wife, Mary Ellen Bork, recalls, “after a monstrous political battle, he resigned from the court in 1988 so that he could write about his legal and cultural views and speak with more freedom than he could if he remained on the court.” And indeed liberated, Judge Bork wrote bestselling books, including Slouching toward Gomorrah, which was published 20 years ago this year [2016].
A crying shame. Satanists have infiltrated and taken control of the Church. Praying they can be expelled
May I remind these people of these scriptural passages still in place........
Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13
“Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable” (Leviticus 18:22) and “If a man lies with a man as one lies with woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads” (Leviticus 20:13).
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1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:10
Paul writes in Corinthians: “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
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Romans 1:26-27
Paul writes: “God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
McCarthyism was named after Sen. Joe McCarthy and not his victims/targets.
Borking should’ve been callied Kennedyism and forever stained Ted Kennedy’s name (this beyond his partnering with the KGB to try to influence the 1984 election to defeat Ronald Reagan).
Pull them down and burn them
Fortunately I have this book titled “Slouching towards Gomorrah” Great book. I have absolutely nothing against gays or lesbians as I believe, to each his or her own, and I knew people who were gays and about the nicest people you want to meet. But once they get in your face insinuating you just have to approve their life style and advertise it to boot, come hell and high water, that’s where I draw he proverbial line.
Pope Francis in the least is a socialist but I suspect a Marxist. His actions are destroying the Church of Rome, the Catholic church I once loved.
My church today is a small church called Grace. It is actually a traditional baptist church of old. The reason we call our name as Grace instead of Grace Baptist Church is to welcome all other Christians into our church.
I rarely attend Sunday service as I do flight instruction on the weekends. I always attend Wednesday bible study. I find this more enlightening as we read scripture and debate its meaning. The group today is about 20 people but growing. In that small group we have a geologist me, a pharmacist me, a flight instructor me, engineers, doctors, an Air Force F4 fighter pilot later a lawyer and professor of law at a University but still a conservative, retired service personnel and just everything else.
It is a privilege to have these as my friends at church studies. Those without degrees often offer insight of high intelligence of the scripture. We have a great group of men.
I would much like to go back to the Church of Rome the Catholic Church. Under Pope Francis I will not. He is not a force for good.
Public funded state schools. American Catholic schools were a Church sponsored alternative to the Protestant public schools of the 19th century, back when there were prayer and Bible readings.
Canada funded both Catholic and Protestant schools, now very nominal in their religion.
Morals are racist.
I guess the bishops and cardinals are proud of themselves.
I’ve said it on here before, but I’ll say it again. We’re in the middle of a civil war in the Catholic Church over the LGBT thing. And, at the moment, the queers are clearly winning. The Church in the Western world (US, Canada, Western Europe, Aus/NZ) is on the precipice of going full-Episcopalian and approving of homosexual acts, marriage, clergy, etc. Bergoglio’s Vatican shows no inclination to put down the hammer and stop this runaway train. God help us.
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