Teachers union threatens Catholic rights by backing gay relationships
Image via Wikipedia TORONTO, December 16, 2011 – The Toronto chapter of the Ontario English Catholic Teacher’s Association (OECTA) had passed two resolutions that contravene Catholic moral doctrine on homosexuality. One of the November 24th resolutions, if adopted by the province-wide union as a whole, would make it OECTA policy to pressure Catholic schools , in the course of future contract negotiations, to give up their constitutional right to fire or refuse to hire teachers who are in homosexual relationships. Campaign Life Catholics, an activist group based in Toronto, says the departure from Catholic faith that this represents is “immediately evident.” What’s not immediately evident, they say, is that this resolution, if adopted by the entire union, would actually have the effect of placing the union in direct opposition to a 1984 Supreme Court decision that ruled in favour of the right of Catholic schools to maintain their Catholic identity. In the 1984 case of Caldwell v.