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HAMILTON, Ontario , June 15, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Trustees of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board voted this week to ban the distribution of Gideon Bibles in their schools, marking an end to a long tradition of giving grade 5 students, with parental consent, their own copy of the Scriptures. School boards in Toronto, Peel, Durham, York and Bruce counties have already banned the Bibles . The Gideons, an evangelical Protestant association based in Nashville, Tennessee , have been placing Bibles containing the New Testament plus the Psalms and Proverbs from the Old Testament in Canadian public schools since 1936. “We have institutions that do this already and they’re called churches,” said board chair Tim Simmons, according to a Hamilton Spectator report . “Maybe churches need to look at the job they do to provide this type of material and not put it on a public school system where we don’t have the resources, we don’t have the manpower, we don’t have t

OTTAWA, Ontario, May 22, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A bill to amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to include “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination passed its second reading on May 10 in the provincial legislature. Bill 33 is sponsored by NDP Cheri DiNovo , MPP (Parkdale-High Park). It is the fourth time the bill has been introduced, but the first time it has reached its second reading. During her presentation of the Bill prior to the vote, DiNovo referred to Joan of Arc as an historical transgendered person and compared Toby Dancer, a deceased transgender person whom Bill 33 is named after, to the highly revered Catholic saint . St. Joan of Arc “At Toby’s funeral, I said, ‘We may be the first church … to put a stained glass window in the sanctuary depicting a trans person,’ because we had one made of Toby playing the piano. … somebody called out, ‘What about Joan of Arc?’ … What about those trans people in history th

Gender symbols, sexual orientation: heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality. Česky: (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) March 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Since at least January 2010, LifeSite, Campaign Life Coalition , and Catholic pro-family activists have been raising the alarm bells over Ontario’s equity and inclusive education strategy and its danger to the Catholic schools . Though the strategy clearly involved normalization of homosexual activity – contrary to Catholic teaching – the Catholic schools and their supporters repeatedly clung to language in the government’s documents upholding Catholic schools’ denominational rights. But the problem that we flagged  from the beginning  was that the strategy itself implicitly required Catholic schools to hand over their denominational rights. By signing on, the schools were being made to assent to the  Ontario Human Rights Code . The issue specifically was that they were required to oppose discrimination based on “sexual orientation,”