{"id":18466,"date":"2013-01-03T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18466"},"modified":"2013-01-03T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:39:02","slug":"university-of-toronto-distances-itself-from-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/university-of-toronto-distances-itself-from-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Toronto distances itself from courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/education\/u-of-t-distances-itself-from-catholic-group-urging-youth-to-resist-homosexuality\/article6887563\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of Toronto has distanced itself from a controversial program dubbed \u201cCourage\u201d that is described as an anonymous support group to help young adults struggling to resist homosexual urges recently launched at the Catholic parish based on the school\u2019s main campus.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026..]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Newman Courage group is a spiritual support group for young adults who experience same-sex attractions and who desire to live chastely, in accordance with Catholic teaching,\u201d reads the centre\u2019s website. A pamphlet lists the five goals of Courage, including fostering a spirit of fellowship to help \u201censure that no one will have to face problems of homosexuality alone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that the support group is not <i>compelling<\/i> anyone to do anything. In contrast, in a spirit of openness, tolerance and free enquiry, Toronto\u2019s bastion of higher learning has concluded, for no particular reason other than liberal bigotry, that a homosexual who does not wish to act on his urges should be denied any assistance in living in his freely chosen manner: compulsory homosexuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The University of Toronto has distanced itself from a controversial program dubbed \u201cCourage\u201d that is described as an anonymous support group to help young adults struggling to resist homosexual urges recently launched at the Catholic parish based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/university-of-toronto-distances-itself-from-courage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[1591],"class_list":["post-18466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","tag-university-of-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}