No, what is taboo is not letting some special-interest group push you into flavour-of-the-month political causes:
Find a politician who doesn't support mandatory gay pride days or who thinks that both the federal and provincial governments have no place in forcing religious schools, bodies or persons into accepting and affirming under great penalty things they find unacceptable.
This was never about protecting minority rights; it was about elevating them. When you have students completely unprepared for the workforce, forcing sexual identity group-think (which will only make the handful of confused, messed-up kids stand out and not blend in, I might add) into schools is the last thing you need.
Tip: flood the mandatory gay-straight alliances with a ridiculous ratio (which they already will, I assure you) of fifty to one straight/gay people and watch this Freedom Ride of Nothing melt into embarrassed irrelevance.
Something significant is happening in the province of Ontario.Ontario's Liberal government did an about face and is now telling publicly funded Catholic schools that they must allow their students to call anti-homophobic clubs "gay-straight alliances".
The change in the Liberal government's new anti-bullying bill — the Accepting Schools Act — is part of a government initiative to create a "safe and accepting climate" in all schools.
It's not only a bold move by premier Dalton McGuinty, but an indication that it's no longer taboo for Canadian politicians to proactively support gay rights.
Find a politician who doesn't support mandatory gay pride days or who thinks that both the federal and provincial governments have no place in forcing religious schools, bodies or persons into accepting and affirming under great penalty things they find unacceptable.
This was never about protecting minority rights; it was about elevating them. When you have students completely unprepared for the workforce, forcing sexual identity group-think (which will only make the handful of confused, messed-up kids stand out and not blend in, I might add) into schools is the last thing you need.
Tip: flood the mandatory gay-straight alliances with a ridiculous ratio (which they already will, I assure you) of fifty to one straight/gay people and watch this Freedom Ride of Nothing melt into embarrassed irrelevance.
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