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Ontario parents conclude 50-day prayer campaign for bishops to reject McGuinty ‘equity’ mandate
BY PATRICK B. CRAINE
Fri Jun 03, 2011 16:15 ESTComments (0)Tags: Dalton Mcguinty, Equity, Oecta, Ontario
HAMILTON, Ontario, June 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Concerned Catholic Parents of Ontario organization is holding a prayer vigil on June 12th in an effort to convince Ontario’s bishops to renounce their support for a government equity strategy that they say threatens the integrity of Catholic sexual teaching in the schools.
Last month, the Ontario bishops asked Catholic school boards throughout the province to begin planning a network of clubs at all publicly-funded Catholic high schools with the “primary goal” of combating “bullying related to sexual orientation” in conjunction with provincial equity strategy mandates.
Since then, however, a government bureaucrat has told LifeSiteNews.com that these clubs would be forbidden from helping students to “reform” their sexuality. The head of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) has also claimed that the “anti-bullying” clubs are really just the activist-oriented and gay-affirmative gay-straight alliances “with a Catholic name.”
“We believe that the Bishops acted under intense pressure, and we are asking that they look at this document again,” Kim Galvao of Concerned Catholic Parents of Ontario told LifeSiteNews. “We the Catholic Laity understand the pressures our bishops are facing. We want to encourage them to defend the truth no matter how difficult.”
lifesitenews.com/news/ontario-parents-conclude-50-day-prayer-campaign-for-bishops-to-reject-mcgui
BY PATRICK B. CRAINE
Fri Jun 03, 2011 16:15 ESTComments (0)Tags: Dalton Mcguinty, Equity, Oecta, Ontario
HAMILTON, Ontario, June 3, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Concerned Catholic Parents of Ontario organization is holding a prayer vigil on June 12th in an effort to convince Ontario’s bishops to renounce their support for a government equity strategy that they say threatens the integrity of Catholic sexual teaching in the schools.
Last month, the Ontario bishops asked Catholic school boards throughout the province to begin planning a network of clubs at all publicly-funded Catholic high schools with the “primary goal” of combating “bullying related to sexual orientation” in conjunction with provincial equity strategy mandates.
Since then, however, a government bureaucrat has told LifeSiteNews.com that these clubs would be forbidden from helping students to “reform” their sexuality. The head of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA) has also claimed that the “anti-bullying” clubs are really just the activist-oriented and gay-affirmative gay-straight alliances “with a Catholic name.”
“We believe that the Bishops acted under intense pressure, and we are asking that they look at this document again,” Kim Galvao of Concerned Catholic Parents of Ontario told LifeSiteNews. “We the Catholic Laity understand the pressures our bishops are facing. We want to encourage them to defend the truth no matter how difficult.”
lifesitenews.com/news/ontario-parents-conclude-50-day-prayer-campaign-for-bishops-to-reject-mcgui