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Ont. minister urges Muslims to stay in gay-ed classes
Controversy erupted after students at Market Lane Public School were shown videos that depicted the feelings of children who get taunted at school because their own parents are homosexuals.
Angry Muslim parents complained that their religious beliefs were getting less respect from the board than gay rights and demanded that their children be excluded on religious grounds from similar presentations in the future.
The board rejected their request Tuesday night on the grounds that allowing some students to be excluded from discussions about gay families would violate the rights of those children with same-sex parents.
Still clinging to the lie assurance that churches won’t be forced to perform same-sex marriages?
Ontario’s New Democrats echoed the government’s position.
“I believe that human rights come above religious rights,” said NDP critic Michael Prue.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms lists freedom of religion as a “fundamental right”. Further down, under “equality rights” we have this:
15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
Contrary to popular belief, the word “orientation” does not actually appear in the document.
Question for Michael Prue; How many Human Rights can dance on the head of a pin? Hate to break this to you Michael but human rights are as much a delusion as the 72 virgins of the Islamo-fantasists. If you ever wondered what Plato meant by a noble lie, Rights would be a good example.
So what you’re saying is that you think it’s okay for children to be teased, harrassed and bullied over their gay parents because of religion?
Bullying is never okay, regardless of religion beliefs.
No, Todd, I’m not.and this film isn’t about bullying – that’s just a plot device. It’s about elevating gay relationships to special status, and indoctrinating children in a manner that is incompatible with the religious beliefs of their paren’ts. Pulling ones children from such a screening is not the equivalent of giving them license to bully. It’s the same right that parents demanded when they wanted their children be able to refrain from starting the school day with the Lord’s Prayer.
Secularism is a religious belief, just as surely as Catholicism or Islam. It’s a delusion to think otherwise, and it’s hypocritical to enforce it on others.
If one government can institute a pecking order to subjugate religious rights to equality rights – a different government can do the reverse. Be careful what you wish for.
“…allowing some students to be excluded from discussions about gay families would violate the rights of those children with same-sex parents”
Random thought one: Unless there’s been some new advance in human biology I’m not aware of, don’t you still need one of each to have a child?
(Oh, of course, me stupid – BIOLOGICAL parents don’t matter, unless it’s a mother trying to avoid that title)
Random thought two: When did children start mattering to the homophilics?
This is classic; Someone dares to disagree with the latest liberal bromide and they immediately retreat to their morally superior default position where the ‘thought criminal’ is accused of favoring the latest social evil for which liberals claim to have discovered a cure. (Of course the cure always involves some encroachment on personal liberty by the State). Liberalism may have been heroic in 1848 but liberals need to realize that their collective delusions have become a repressive and reactionary hegemonic ideology . Guess what; You’re the problem! You’re the ones who’ve replaced thought with emotionally manipulative sloganeering while clinging desperately to a worn out ideology. You are the Establishment. Actually, you have a lot in common with Islam.
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It’s a topic we agree to disagree on Kate. They’re not advocating special status — just equal to that of heterosexuals. I know it’s hard for the right to understand the difference between special rights and equal, but it’s how we see it.
I agree totally on religious rights but I also think a video against bullying, of any type, is not something that anyone should be against. Rewording what you said, perhaps next time the video will be about against taunting children of the religious right.
It’s an interesting thought though about skipping parts of classes because of religion. I assume next kids will be skipping biology because of ‘evolution’.