Hello, everyone:
Spring has sprung here in BC, although some days one has to wonder. In a surprise snow storm on the north half of Vancouver Island on the 18th of April, over 8 inches of heavy, wet snow fell overnight, and continued to fall until after nine in the morning! What ever happened to global warming?
While the weather has been a problem on the island, BC’s “Bible Belt” community, Abbotsford, faced a problem of another kind. It was the site of a highly objectionable sex show called the “Taboo Naughty but Nice Sex Show” at the Abbotsford Tradex Building. According to Tradex officials the show featured topless women, alcoholic beverages, sex toys, and sadomasochist supplies. What was particularly disturbing was that a 15-year-old girl not only entered into the first adults-only sex show in Abbotsford twice, but also modeled on a motorcycle and openly drank alcohol on the premises. Everyone is passing the buck as to who was responsible for ensuring that young people not be admitted to this controversial sex show. The mayor says it was the responsibility of Tradex, but the Tradex manager is pointing his finger at the owner of the Taboo Show. The latter claims the girl had fake identification, but the owner and producer of Canwest Shows, which organized the Taboo Naughty But Nice Sex Show, said his employees checked people at the door for picture ID or a driver’s license. However, the mother of the 15-year old girl claims that she had personally seen a number of young people, who were not asked to produce ID, going in and out of the show.
On that same weekend, in the same building, a Pet Expo was held and was billed as a family event. It certainly seems that the building’s use that weekend was not well thought out by the facility organizers. Over 200 letters have gone in to the Mayor and Council of Abbotsford, who remain ultimately responsible for the Tradex building and its operations.
Another matter is the push to change the BC curriculum to promote homosexual relationships as equal to heterosexual relationships. This arose because of a complaint made by a homosexual couple to the BC Human Rights Tribunal. A recent curriculum release, called Making Space, Giving Voice, for K-12, on teaching social justice within all subject areas, states that when a teacher must intervene in a conflict which develops suddenly in the classroom he/she should make connections to the topic as necessary “(e.g., drawing an analogy between heterosexism and racism to show the similarities)”.
It is interesting to note that some of the websites, listed as resources in “Making Space, Giving Voice”, include: BC Human Rights Tribunal, The Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education, Earth Summit 2002, Gay and Lesbian Educators of BC (GALEBC), International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Status of Women Action Group, Status of Women Canada, The Stephen Lewis Foundation, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Vancouver Women’s Health Collective, the legal arm of the feminist movement LEAF (Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund), diversity was sadly lacking. Pro-life/pro-family groups were noticeable by their absence. This can scarcely be described as education, but is clearly a left-wing indoctrination program for innocent children.
Go to http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/drafts/making_space_response_draft.pdf to view the
curriculum.
We need to elect good, thinking people to all positions of office in Canada from School Boards to Federal Government and then hold them accountable to their beliefs, otherwise our nation will be lost.
Till next time! |
