Thursday, October 11, 2012

Ontario government wants to ban pro-life message in Catholic schools using "anti-bullying" laws.

The threat to religious freedom is a very real reality in Canada.  Here's a story out of Ontario.
In what pro-life leaders are calling a stunning and unprecedented attack on religious freedom, Ontario’s Education Minister has apparently declared that Catholic schools can no longer teach that abortion is wrong.

Laurel Broten, who serves under Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty, said Wednesday that Catholic schools are barred from teaching this core moral belief because Bill 13, the government’s controversial “anti-bullying” law, prohibits “misogyny.”

“Taking away a woman’s right to choose could arguably be considered one of the most misogynistic actions that one could take,” she told the Canadian Press. “I don’t think there is a conflict between choosing Catholic education for your children and supporting a woman’s right to choose.”

Bill 13 had already been slammed by Ontario’s bishops as an attack on religious freedom because it forces Catholic schools to allow “gay-straight alliance” clubs.

“This is absolutely unbelievable and shocking,” said Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition. ”The rights of the Catholic schools are protected in Canada’s Constitution. Especially coming from somebody who’s a purported Catholic with her children in Catholic schools.”
 Note the use of "anti-bullying" laws to promote this radical social agenda.  More evidence that our concern about efforts to revise Minnesota's anti-bullying law are well founded.  Changes aren't just designed to address bullying behavior, something we all oppose, but seek to promote a social indoctrination.

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