Homosexuality Tag

14 Apr 2011 BC public school board considering ‘homophobia/heterosexism’ policy

BURNABY, British Columbia, April 14, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Board of Education for the Burnaby School District of British Columbia has been moving towards adopting a “Homophobia/Heterosexism” policy that would promote homosexuality and censor all opposition throughout all grade schools, middle schools, and high schools of the Burnaby public school system. The draft policy, approved by the Board of Trustees February 22, 2011, defines “heterosexism” as a “mistaken assumption”  that “all people are heterosexual and that heterosexuality is superior and the norm...

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04 Jan 2011 Censorship by any other name

Jesse Kline, National Post (Dec 23 2010): The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), an independent body that administers guidelines set out by Canada’s private broadcasters, recently made public a decision that finds the Christian television show Word TV in violation of its code of ethics. The council condemned the show’s host, evangelical minister Charles McVety, for, among other things, making “disparaging and unacceptable” remarks about homosexuals during Toronto’s Gay Pride parade. Read more ...

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21 Dec 2010 In the gay marriage debate, stop playing the hate card

ARPA note: This piece is even more applicable in Canada, thanks to our provincial and federal human rights commissions. By Matthew J. Franck - Washington Post -  Friday, December 17, 2010: In the debates over gay marriage, "hate" is the ultimate conversation-stopper. Some stories from recent months: A religion instructor at a midwestern state university explains in an e-mail to students the rational basis for Catholic teaching on homosexuality. He is denounced by a student for "hate speech" and is dismissed from his position. (He is...

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07 Sep 2010 Ontario Equity Strategy Threatens to Embed Religious Discrimination: CLC

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, September 1, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of their campaign to scrap Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s equity and inclusive education strategy, Campaign Life Coalition is warning that the strategy threatens to embed a systematic and unjust religious discrimination within school boards’ hiring and advancement policies.
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28 Jul 2010 Ontario Human Rights Commission Proudly Promoting the Gay Agenda

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski, TORONTO, July 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The recent release of the Ontario Human Rights Commission's annual report shows that the OHRC is activity promoting the homosexualist agenda in schools and elsewhere. Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall prefaced the report with the statement: “Our work can be summed up in three words: educate, empower and act – actions that can transform written rights into lived rights.”
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30 Jun 2010 Major Canadian Businesses Supporting Raunchy Toronto Gay Pride Parade

ARPA Note: We can be thankful that this year hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars aren't funding this. This is an example of how your taking action makes a difference. By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - LifeSiteNews has compiled a list of the corporate sponsors who are supporting Toronto's sordid annual homosexual "pride" parade (see below).
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30 Jun 2010 Equity Training for Ontario Catholic Boards: Homosexuality ‘Normal’, ‘Natural’

By Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The majority of Ontario’s Catholic education establishment has backed the Ontario Ministry of Education’s equity and inclusive education strategy, even where it mandates “equity” based on sexual orientation, on the basis that the Catholic Church has always emphasized equity and inclusivity.
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27 May 2010 One More Example of Reconcilliation Triumphing Over Commissions and Tribunals

‘Gay’ Ex-Altar Server Drops Human Rights Case against Bishop: By John-Henry Westen and Patrick Craine: PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, May 27, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The human rights complaint filed against Bishop Nicola De Angelis of Peterborough, Ontario over his decision to disallow an open homosexual from acting as an altar server in the diocese has been dropped without conditions.
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10 May 2010 ARPA Members and Ron Gray Meet with BC Cabinet Minister

ARPA Note: This press release was produced by Take Back Our Schools. Learn more about the ongoing effort to bring positive change to BC's schools by clicking here. LANGLEY, April 30, 2010 (TBOS) — A meeting of concerned Langley constituents with Langley MLA Mary Polak (who is also Minister of Children and Family Development, and Minister Responsible for Child Care) today produced some hopeful results—but also some concerns.
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