{"id":7779,"date":"2010-03-15T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2010-03-15T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:53:28","slug":"compulsory-equality-in-ontario-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/compulsory-equality-in-ontario-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory equality in Ontario classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

My grandparents used to say to my parents, \u201cI\u2019m glad I\u2019m not bringing up children in this day and age\u201d<\/em>; to gain perspective, \u201cthis day and age\u201d<\/em> was when I was young and we had no TV, no car, no telephone, the milk was delivered by horses pulling a cart and we learned to write with a scratchy pen that had to be dipped in an inkwell.<\/p>\n

In their turn, my parents said the same thing to me; in the early days, we still had no car or telephone.<\/p>\n

Now I look at my grandchildren and say to their parents, \u201cI\u2019m glad I\u2019m not bringing up children in this day and age\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons; here<\/a> is one:<\/p>\n

TORONTO, Ontario, January 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com<\/a>) – The Ontario Ministry of Education has mandated that every school board in Ontario, Catholic and public, implement a new equity and inclusiveness policy by September 2010.<\/p>\n

While the new initiative was devised with participation from the curriculum arm of the Ontario Bishops’ Assembly, it nevertheless would force Ontario’s Catholic school boards to recognize \u201csexual orientation\u201d as a ground protected from discrimination.\u00a0 The Vatican has warned, however, that such a recognition is usually part and parcel with the outright promotion of homosexuality. One prominent Catholic commentator and priest has said that this is indeed the Ministry’s aim.<\/p>\n

The Ministry’s new initiative, called the Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy<\/a>, requires school boards to address areas such as religious accommodation and the prevention of discrimination, which includes combating \u201chomophobia.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My grandparents used to say to my parents, \u201cI\u2019m glad I\u2019m not bringing up children in this day and age\u201d; to gain perspective, \u201cthis day and age\u201d was when I was young and we had no TV, no car, no … Continue reading →<\/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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[734,2167,2225],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-correctness","tag-equality","tag-homosexuality","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","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=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}