(henrymakow.com)
Earlier this year Alberta’s NDP government released 12 “best practices” mandatory policies for “transgendered” students that govern everything from shower rooms to sport teams and school trips. The guidelines state that a student’s own “self-identification” as either a boy or a girl, or neither, is the “sole measure of an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”
Unlike their Ontario counterparts, Alberta Bishops have spoken out against this Orwellian law.
Left, Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith.
The Archbishop denounced the guidelines saying the principle that self-identification is the “sole measure” of an individual’s perceived gender identity creates, what he called, an “artificial gender-neutral atmosphere in schools, often without proper regard to the rights and protections previously upheld for boys and girls and their mothers and fathers.”
He also took issue with certain Catholic board trustees,”There, for too long now, we have witnessed the inability of trustees to function in a cohesive way or speak with a unified voice. The words and actions of some trustees, rather than defending and upholding all that is good in Catholic education, have caused harm and hostility. In so doing, they have betrayed the trust placed in them by Catholic electors.”
Bishop Fred Henry, Diocese of Calgary
In a letter sent home to every parent in the district, Fred Henry clearly defends Catholic teaching on sexuality stating,
“Gay Straight Alliances and Queer Straight Alliances are highly politicized ideological clubs which seek to cure society of “homophobia” and “heterosexism,” and which accept the idea that all forms of consensual sexual expression are legitimate. The view of sexuality that they espouse is not Catholic.”
Below- Bishop Paul Terrio from the Diocese of St. Paul, Alberta
“To mandate that ‘self-identification is the sole measure of an individual’s sexual orientation’ and in fact, by totally excluding biological fact, contradicts our common day-to-day life experience and also repudiates the goodness of Creation,” he wrote.
“I therefore, as a Catholic Bishop in Alberta, must reject the ‘Guidelines for Best Practices’: for reasons of both faith and common sense.”
Father Stefano Penna, vice president and professor at Newman Theological College in Edmonton chastized a school trustee, Patricia Grell, “Do your constituents know that you are completely in cahoots with those whose intent is to bully anyone who does not ‘speak the new language’ of family and sexuality?”
The good priest added, “According to the new government regulations for ‘Best Practices,’ there is only one English that can be acceptable: the bizarre right-speak of graduate students and their faculty advisors in the Department of Eugenics, Racial Anthropology or Gender Diversity.”
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Left – Cardinal Collins aka Pervert Kathleen Wynne’s Little Buddy
He said, ‘We don’t want to make a big issue out of this. So can you guys back off or not make a big issue out of it?’
In Cardinal Collin’s only official statement on the curriculum, he said that Catholic schools “have a responsibility to teach the curriculum.”
ICE’s Mike Pautler told LifeSiteNews that while Catholic schools will be using the faith traditions of the Catholic Church as the “starting point” for interpreting the sex-ed, nevertheless, he admitted that the “core content and expectations” of what ICE will produce will not “vary from that prescribed by the Ministry of Education.”
President of the Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education OAPCE, Brian Evoy
Meanwhile, a different institutional Catholic organization, the Ontario Association of Parents in Catholic Education, has also admitted to being part of the sex-ed consultation process. President Brian Evoy called the consultation process positive, adding that his organization is “very much in favour of the curriculum and all of the changes that will be made.” He said he is confident that ICE will be able to interpret the sex-ed so it squares with Catholicism.
Jane Michael, the board member whose vote defeated a motion in Halton Hills to delay implementation of the new sex-ed curriculum claimed Bishop Crosby influenced her decision. Meanwhile, the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton banned a Kitchener parish speaker who opposed the Ontario sex education curriculum.
CONCLUSION
The fact that there are still some Bishops upholding Catholic teaching and defending the children is encouraging. More importantly, the actions of the Alberta Bishops exposes the Ontario Bishops as frauds who have no right to their offices. It would be nice if they could be forced out for non-performance.