Posted on 12/10/2021 6:59:28 PM PST by marshmallow
'People were really mad,' said student Timothy Que. 'It’s been kind of crazy. I didn’t expect it to be this bad.'
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) – A high school in Vancouver has placed restrictions on a Grade 11 student’s Catholic Club after the school board was inundated with complaints.
Last month, Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver placed restrictions on Grade 11 student Timothy Que’s Catholic club aimed at teaching and promoting the authentic Catholic faith, after the school’s board was hit with a barrage of complaints following an interview he did to promote his new club. While Que’s pro-Catholic club has been limited because it promotes “a particular religion,” other ideological groups, such as pro-LGBTQ groups, remain unaffected.
According to Que, the new regulations imposed on his group prohibit him from explicitly teaching or promoting the Catholic faith, but instead must be limited to “socialization” and “general discussions” surrounding the topic of Catholicism.
The reason for the regulations, per the director of communications at the Vancouver School Board (VSB), Patricia MacNeil, is because Section 76 of the B.C. School Act “states that schools must be conducted on strictly secular and non-sectarian principles,” and that “no religious dogma or creed is to be taught in a school.”
In effect, this means “districts cannot promote a particular religion but that they can certainly teach about religion,” she explained to the B.C. Catholic.
However, according to a B.C. Ministry of Education spokesperson, “there is no provincial policy that sets rules for school clubs. It is up to local school districts to set rules for clubs.”
“It’s disappointing,” Que told the B.C. Catholic. “All I really wanted to do is to just teach Catholic teaching.”
“People were really mad,” he stated. “It’s been kind of crazy. I didn’t expect it.......
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How about they start a “If you don’t accept Jesus as the only way to Eternal Life, You’ll burn in hell forever” Club?
Even the current USSC might rule against the school on this matter. It is clearly a violation of constitutional rights. And those that have a problem with this are full of evil in their hearts. This is voluntary club. No one has to attend.
Opps... This is Canada. My bad. I don’t know who it works there.
So this is a STUDENT who wants to start a group to discuss his faith, and school authorities are clamping down. Can you imagine them shutting down a Muslim group? Or a Buddhist group? Or a yoga group? IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN.
Democrat scum plan to criminalize Christianity.
They shouldn’t have called it a club. There shouldn’t have been an “it” at all. No “it” and there’s nothing to complain about.
We’ve gone from “Eek, a mouse!” to “Eek, a Christian!”
British Columbia is in Canada, you know.
But the dogma of sodomy and scissoring/bumping monkeys is just fine.
Disgusting.
They cannot promote religion, but they can promote homosexuality. What a crazy world.
Discussions about religion offend the sensibilities of the powers that be, but discussions about all this LGBT business do not offend them. Amazing......
Opps?
[[They cannot promote religion, but they can promote homosexuality. What a crazy world.]]
It’s a Satanically dominated world in places- He runs the show- for now anyways- His followers are openly hostile to God and His people- and it’s getting worse=-
Or a Jewish group. They're as protected as Muslims.
Ever notice all the giant menorah lightings on public properties throughout the U.S. Not a peep from the ACLU. But just try and put up a Nativity Scene ...
He should have promoted it as a gay club and then, if pushed on it, say “we’re all happy to be Catholics”.
But of course only to "discuss the topic" - not to actually promote or disseminate any religious beliefs.
Regards,
We have one on the court house lawn.
You live in the wrong place.
Living in the Greater Vancouver area, it is pretty much “Homo uber alles”. We seem to only have the politically disengaged and the politically deranged here.
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