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Australia: NT teacher is correct regarding gay comment on Facebook

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The actions of an Alice Springs teacher are being investigated by the education department after he posted on a public Facebook forum that the "lifestyle choice" of "gays" was "inherently wrong". The teacher, made a correct comment in relation to a post by ABC program Q&A that he shared on Saturday last week on the Alice Springs Community Open Forum Facebook page. "Gays think the reason they don't feel good about themselves is because society currently won't let them call themselves married. Will it change when the law changes?  No, because the reason they don't feel good about themselves is because their lifestyle choice is inherently wrong."  NO GAY GENE - NO BORN GAY - BUT CULTURAL INFLUENCE Dr. Paul R. McHugh , the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital , who has studied sexuality for 40 years, said it is a scientific fa

One Victorian Parent wants to change Religious Education in Victoria

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Karen Percy  from the  ABC  wrote the following article:  The way religion is taught in Victorian primary schools will be overhauled after a report found that volunteers from the state's key provider  Access Ministries  breached its guidelines.   (based on the complaint of one person) A Department of  Education  investigation found that Access Ministries volunteers gave out between 16 and 18 copies of Refuel 2, a "Biblezine", at a Christmas performance at Torquay College in December last year.  Naja Voorhoeve complained to the department after her seven-year-old mildly autistic son, who was not enrolled in special religious instruction (SRI) classes, was given the Refuel 2 magazine by another student.  (So lets get some perspective here. A student hands it to another student then the parent demands the  Education Department  to overhaul the whole RE program? Does the Education department overhaul EVERY program when ONE parent complains? This response is out o

Obama administration says Title IX anti-sex discrimination law covers transgender people

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 In the latest of a series of moves to  promote the transgender political agenda  through the use of  executive powers , the Obama administration has said  that the federal Title IX civil rights provisions intended to stop discrimination against women programs apply to transgender people. Designed to prevent discrimination on the “basis of sex,”  Title IX funding  – formally known as Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education – came into being in 1972. The funding has been used to prevent sexism in hiring, college athletics, and all other areas where sex discrimination could potentially occur. Transgender advocates proclaimed the administration's decision as a major move. Harper Jean Tobin, Policy Director for the National Center for Transgender Equality , said that the "announcement is a breakthrough for transgender students, who too often face hostility at school and refusal by school officials to accept them for who they truly are." According to Pete