Education Minister supports school boards in refusing parents’ right to pull kids from sex classes which includes graphic homosexuality
TORONTO, Sept. 12, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – As a Hamilton father fights his school board in court for the right to protect his children from classes on sexuality that he considers objectionable, Ontario’s Education Minister is backing the board. In a statement to LifeSiteNews about whether she supports the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board ’s decision to forbid religious accommodation to students seeking to withdraw from classes dealing with homosexuality, Education Minister Laurel Broten says school boards may refuse parents’ requests for religious accommodation if they deem fit. Education Minister Laurel Broten “Boards have the autonomy and flexibility to make accommodations based on individual requests, on a case by case basis,” Broten told LifeSiteNews Tuesday afternoon. “We will continue to support a province-wide curriculum, and local approaches to religious accommodation.” Some pro-family leaders are questioning the government’s motives, however, noti