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B.C. GOVERNMENT AGREES TO COMPULSORY HOMOSEXUAL
INDOCTRINATION IN THE SCHOOLS
In 1999, a homosexual teacher in Coquitlam
B.C., Murray Corren, and his partner laid a complaint before
the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal alleging that the B.C. school
curriculum did not adequately address sexual orientation.
They argued that this failure was systemic discrimination,
even though they acknowledged that the curriculum was not
in any way anti-homosexual. An especially disturbing aspect
of their complaint was that it included a demand that future
positive homosexual instruction be made a mandatory subject
for all students, including those attending private schools,
if the latter are in receipt of government funding.
On June 2, 2006, the B.C. government announced
that the Attorney General, Wally Oppal, and the Minister of
Education, Shirley Bond, had negotiated a 6 page agreement
with the homosexual activists. (Mr. Corren has a long history
of homosexual activism, most recently pushing for same-sex
marriage). The agreement reached was in two parts.
1.A new course on “social justice”
is to be offered to interested students in Grade 12, which
would incorporate the homosexual issue as well as race, ethnicity,
family structure and gender equality. The course would address
legal, political, ethical and economic perspectives that supposedly
provide Canadian concepts of justice, equality and equity.
The course will be piloted in schools in the
2007-08 school year, with full implementation to follow in
the next year.
This course will be optional for school districts,
which will be required to provide the course only if there
is enough interest expressed in it. It is uncertain whether
the 37 independent high schools in the province, representing
9,300 students, will be required to include this course in
their curriculum.
2.The entire B.C. school curriculum is to
be reviewed to ensure that it reflects positive homosexual
“inclusion”, i.e., that homosexual and gender identity
be included in all discussions, such as those involving racial
inequality and women’s rights, ethnicity, etc.
At the present time, the province permits
parents and students to opt out of some classes, such as those
on sex education, health and career courses. This agreement,
however, will force students to remain in classes dealing
with sexual orientation, since it will be integrated throughout
the entire curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12.
As part of the settlement, the B.C. government
has agreed to provide the complainants with a draft of the
revised curriculum to allow them to make further revisions
before it is finalized. This gives the two homosexual complainants
significant authority to rewrite the curriculum at all levels.
In effect, the agreement has given a special interest group
a free hand to propagandize in the public schools without
any opportunity for rebuttal or for the provision of a balanced
account of homosexuality, including its negative medical,
moral and physiological outcomes. One wonders what the reaction
would have been if REAL Women, instead of homosexuals, had
been granted authority to revise the school curriculum in
a similar manner.
Why This Agreement?
By signing this agreement, the B.C. government
avoided a long, costly battle before the kangaroo court known
as the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. The homosexual complaint
placed the government in a financial bind, as the government
was required, in addition to its own legal costs, to pay all
legal costs of the complainants. That is, after laying their
complaint, all the complainants had to do was sit back and
watch the members of the Tribunal run with their ball to score
the inevitable goal in their favour – no stress, no costs
– the burden lying solely on the defending government.
The outcome of the Tribunal hearing was a foregone conclusion.
Therefore, the B.C. government capitulated to the demands
of the homosexual activists.
By this agreement, the B.C. government has
undermined freedom of belief, religion, and opinion in the
B.C. schools. It has failed to provide information, instead
it is providing indoctrination on a heated political issue
now gripping this country. The government has shown itself
to be cowardly and totally lacking in integrity by deciding
to take the expedient route. An editorial in the National
Post (June 17, 2006) on this planned curriculum change stated:
Parents do not give, by placing their children
in the school system’s care, consent to have them subjected
to either sexual propaganda from special interest advocates
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But the B.C. government has done just that.
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