Posted on 01/15/2023 6:57:27 PM PST by marshmallow
Denver, Colo., Jan 13, 2023 / 15:30 pm Textbook publisher Pearson Canada has dropped the Ontario Catholic education curriculum “Fully Alive” from its offerings after LGBT advocates claimed the Catholic content is “homophobic.”
The Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario sponsors Fully Alive, calling it a “family life education program.” It accounts for about 20% of the religious education program in Ontario Catholic schools and is taught about once a week, the Toronto bishops’ website said. The series was first published between 1988 and 1992, with updates in 2006 and 2012.
Family life and sex education, as represented in Fully Alive, “is intended to pass on a distinctively Catholic view of human life, sexuality, marriage, and family. Its goal is to complement the efforts of families and to support what parents are doing at home.”
Pearson had served as the publisher for the Fully Alive curriculum, which includes grades 1–8 textbooks and accompanying teachers’ resources.
A Pearson spokesperson told CNA on Jan. 12 that it is “in the process of ending its support for Fully Alive.” It stopped printing in December and will stop its support for the digital version by March.
Critics of the decision included the Institute for Catholic Education, a Toronto-based Catholic education body, which had helped choose the Fully Alive curriculum for the bishops. The institute told CBC Toronto that parents “rightly expect that the presentation of a family life curriculum will reflect a Catholic view of human life, sexuality, marriage, and family.”
Pearson Canada will continue to publish a different series for Catholic schools in Canada, “Growing in Faith.”
Ontario is one of three Canadian provinces that fully fund Catholic school systems with taxpayer money. Catholic dioceses do not own these schools. While Ontario bishops set catechetical curricula in Catholic schools, they do not........
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Catholic schools in Canada are directly funded by the National government.
I read this wrong, I thought it said:
Canadian Publisher Pulls LGBT Textbooks After Catholic Criticism
Ah, the old golden rule -- he who has the gold....
Kyle Iannuzzi, a former student trustee at the Toronto Catholic District School Board who now serves as a member of its LGBT+ advisory committee, filed a complaint about the books with Pearson Canada in June 2022. Six months later, the company told him it would stop printing the books. This month, Ianuzzi found that the digital versions were still available.
The enemy within.
The True North strong and free. Pfft!
But never do they pull homosexual propaganda. That’s OK… sick bastards.
If this company publishes any textbooks for America then they need to banned in America.
Probably Bible quotes like, "Male and female, He created them."
Then we could have all had a good laugh!
Regards,
Bring back our freedoms!
How long before Canada bans Bibles for being homophobic?
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