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CBC News — Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001-05-31
A group of Christian Schools is boasting that it convinced the government to bring in a tax credit for private school tuition. The Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools says it spent $175,000 on a lobbying campaign.
The Minister of Finance, however, denies he even met with their lobbyists.
National Post —
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2001-05-21
Martinuk applauds a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, that "the British Columbia College of Teachers did not have the right to withhold its approval of Trinity Western University's education program simply because Trinity Western students sign a code of moral conduct." This code includes the Christian university's disapproval of "premarital sex, adultery and homosexual behaviour."
But Martinuk goes even further, criticizing the court's statement, in the same decision, that "there is a clear line between the right to private religious beliefs and the right to act on them in public" because she fears that such a statement threatens Christians' "right" to express their anti-homosexual sentiments through concrete action (such as denial of service).
Webmaster's comment:
Obviously, this journalist chooses to confuse two issues: on the one hand, religious freedom; on the
other hand, license to discriminate on the basis religious bigotry. Freedom of religion
and freedom from religion must go hand in hand. Christian homophobia is, like
all religious dogma, based on faith and thus devoid of rational basis. Yes, religious freedom
must be protected; it must also be limited in order to protect both the rights of non-believers
and the rights of those who are the targets of religious prejudice.
Yahoo! News, 2001-05-14
The new archbishop of Sydney (Australia) asked God to help him keep gays out of the clergy, but rumors are swirling about the group of effeminate priests who surrounded him at his previous post.
Webmaster's comment:
The dear archbishop wants to keep gays out of the clergy. Capital idea! But don't discriminate. Keep straights out as well.
Why not keep everyone out of the clergy and encourage them to find honest, useful employment?
Globe and Mail —
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2001-05-10
Public education in Canada's most populous province is threatened by the provincial government's decision to give major tax credits to parents who send their children to private schools, most of which are religious and ethnic.
(Catholic schools are already directly funded by the province.)
The Ontario government blew away the province's long-standing opposition to fragmenting the education system Wednesday by announcing in the budget that private schools will be supported with tax dollars...
The move will put $300-million a year into funding the 100,000 children who go to private schools, ranging from religion-based institutions to upper-crust schools. Ontario is the first province to offer such credits directly to parents, though some other provinces provide public money for private schools...
Supporters of faith-based schools welcomed the credits, but opponents of the change said it amounts to a theft of money from public education.
Webmaster's comment:
A serious violation of the principle of church/state separation.
CBC News — Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001-05-03
OTTAWA - Calling it an issue "at the heart of the human condition," Health Minister Allan Rock opened hearings Thursday into draft legislation that will form the basis for Canada's first law on reproductive technology.
Independent News — Great Britain, 2001-05-01
The Roman Catholic priesthood in Britain is fast on its way to becoming a gay profession. There are significantly more homosexuals among those training to be priests than there are proportionately in the general population.
What Rome thinks about all this is not clear... But the Most Rev Tarcisio Bertone, an archbishop and the secretary of the body formerly known as the Holy Inquisition, has let slip that he believes it is "self-evident" that seminaries should refuse admittance to gays.
Webmaster's comment:
"Becoming a gay profession"! How disingenuous. The over-representation of gays in the Catholic priesthood has been an open secret for a very long time.
The real scandal here is the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church on the subject of homosexuality.
The duplicity of gay priests themselves is also obvious: they support and participate in a very powerful homophobic institution.
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