Evangelicals disappointed at lack of Catholic leadership on homosexuality push in Ontario schools
Image via Wikipedia Evangelicals have expressed disappointment at the apparent collapse of the Ontario Catholic Church in the face of pressure from homosexual activists, who successfully lobbied a Catholic school board last week to scrap a pro-family equity policy that included explicit wording to prevent instruction that undermines Church teaching on homosexuality. “It seems to me that [the Roman Catholic Church ] is being co-opted before our very eyes, as illustrated by this recent event,” said Royal Hamel, an Evangelical minister. “I view this with no small degree of alarm, ... because the Roman Catholic is one of the last few remaining bulwarks against the deluge.” Phil Lees, a Protestant who leads Ontario’s Family Coalition Party and runs Public Education Advocates for Christian Equality ( PEACE ), which aims to help families make faith-based educational choices, said the Halton Catholic board’s collapse is a blow to traditional families in the public system. Meeting in a ro