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Canada's transgender confusion

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OTTAWA, Ontario , June 12, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Bill C-279, the Canadian transgender bill, sailed through the Senate Committee on Human Rights on Monday, despite  testimony  during the meeting from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that transgendered people are already protected on the grounds of “sex and disability”. Joanne Brownrigg, a lobbyist for Campaign Life Coalition who attended the meeting, told LifeSiteNews.com that in the committee’s “unbridled enthusiasm to pass the bill and appear like heroes they were required to suspend all reason and rationality.”  NDP LGBTT Critic Randall Garrison , who introduced the bill “So little of what was said rested on legal arguments and the actual good that this law would do,” she said.  A number of groups supporting the bill, including the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) , argued to the committee that the bill would “make a very clear statement about the invisibility of transgender people”.  Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, Dire

Gay activists threaten to challenge Catholic doctrine in court if schools don’t follow Bill 13

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Dalton McGuiny (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) ONTARIO, June 12, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – As Catholic bishops in Ontario scramble to figure out how to square McGuinty ’s new law mandating Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) with Catholic teaching on sexual morality, homosexual activist groups say that they are prepared to challenge Catholic doctrine in court come September. After Catholic Bishop Fred Colli of Thunder Bay   made statements  last week that GSA clubs in Catholic schools would be “true to the teachings of our Church”, Ontario Gay-Straight Alliances Coalition lawyer Doug Elliott  told  the homsoexual news service Xtra! that if Catholics “driven by the position of the Vatican” think they have found a loophole in the legislation, then they will be hauled before the courts. Bishop Fred Colli “If the schools try to play games with kids …. the law is clear. We won’t put up with any of that crap come September,” Elliott said. “If you’re not complying with the law, the

Mandated gay clubs in Catholic schools can’t help students overcome homosexuality: Ontario gvmt

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Image via Wikipedia Ontario Catholic schools will not be permitted to use the support groups that are being mandated under the government’s controversial equity and inclusive education strategy to counsel homosexual students to “reform their sexuality.” The government revealed the unprecedented challenge to the province’s publicly-funded Catholic education system. Some Catholics have suggested that the student-led support groups for homosexuals could be used as a means to provide authentic pastoral support based on Catholic Church teaching. But the Ministry of Education told LifeSiteNews that that won’t fly.  “Groups for LGBT students that counsel the students to reform their sexuality or try to stop them from being gay are not considered consistent with the ministry’s equity policy which is to support students,” said Mike Feenstra, press secretary for Minister of Education Leona Dombrowsky . The Ministry’s demand stands in direct opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Ch