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Legal opinion: Ontario “equity” strategy will be used to persecute Catholics
BY PATRICK B. CRAINE
Fri Aug 12, 2011 16:17 ESTComments (9)Tags: Catholic Schools, Equity Policy, Homosexuality, Persecution
TORONTO, Ontario, August 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Without clear protections, the Ontario government’s equity and inclusive education strategy “will be used to persecute Catholic teachers and students who promote and support the Church’s teaching on homosexuality,” argues Toronto lawyer Geoffrey F. Cauchi in a legal opinion for LifeSiteNews.
The equity strategy, though being implemented in Ontario’s public and Catholic schools, has been slammed by pro-family groups because of its emphasis on normalizing homosexuality under the guise of combating “homophobia.” These groups note that homosexual activist groups have already seized on the equity agenda to gain a foothold in the Catholic schools.
“The overall impression the [government’s equity strategy] Documents convey,” writes Cauchi in his 24-page opinion, is “that the Ontario Government has embraced the gay activist positions that Catholic teaching on the subject of homosexuality is itself ‘homophobic’ or ‘heterosexist’, and ‘harms’ ‘gays and lesbians’.”
Those documents, for example, recommend gay-straight alliance clubs and participation in the Gay Pride parades, among other events run by homosexual activists.
Catholic teaching, as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, insists that homosexuals “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity,” but also affirms that homosexual inclinations are “objectively disordered” and homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity.” While the Church has condemned any unjust discrimination against homosexuals, it has also affirmed that there is just discrimination, for example in not allowing homosexual adoption or marriage.
lifesitenews.com/news/legal-opinion-ontario-equity-strategy-will-be-used-to-persecute-catholics
BY PATRICK B. CRAINE
Fri Aug 12, 2011 16:17 ESTComments (9)Tags: Catholic Schools, Equity Policy, Homosexuality, Persecution
TORONTO, Ontario, August 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Without clear protections, the Ontario government’s equity and inclusive education strategy “will be used to persecute Catholic teachers and students who promote and support the Church’s teaching on homosexuality,” argues Toronto lawyer Geoffrey F. Cauchi in a legal opinion for LifeSiteNews.
The equity strategy, though being implemented in Ontario’s public and Catholic schools, has been slammed by pro-family groups because of its emphasis on normalizing homosexuality under the guise of combating “homophobia.” These groups note that homosexual activist groups have already seized on the equity agenda to gain a foothold in the Catholic schools.
“The overall impression the [government’s equity strategy] Documents convey,” writes Cauchi in his 24-page opinion, is “that the Ontario Government has embraced the gay activist positions that Catholic teaching on the subject of homosexuality is itself ‘homophobic’ or ‘heterosexist’, and ‘harms’ ‘gays and lesbians’.”
Those documents, for example, recommend gay-straight alliance clubs and participation in the Gay Pride parades, among other events run by homosexual activists.
Catholic teaching, as expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, insists that homosexuals “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity,” but also affirms that homosexual inclinations are “objectively disordered” and homosexual acts are “acts of grave depravity.” While the Church has condemned any unjust discrimination against homosexuals, it has also affirmed that there is just discrimination, for example in not allowing homosexual adoption or marriage.
lifesitenews.com/news/legal-opinion-ontario-equity-strategy-will-be-used-to-persecute-catholics