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Justin Trudeau at secondary school: Catholic opposition to gay-straight alliances ‘repulsive’

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OTTAWA, June 25, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Liberal MP and potential leadership contender Justin Trudeau visited students at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School last week, where he responded to a student’s question about “the Catholic backlash against provincial anti-bullying legislation ,” stating that Catholic opposition to gay-straight alliances was “repulsive.” The Ontario bishops had opposed the legislation because it requires schools to allow gay-straight alliance clubs, which are closely tied to the homosexualist movement. “There’s not a religion in the world that says ‘tolerate thy neighbour.’ No, they say ‘love thy neighbour.’ Acceptance, respect, building friendships, being open to each other, that’s what we have to build on in Canada ,” Trudeau said, according to emckanata.ca . Trudeau, the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , said the suicide of 15-year-old A.Y. Jackson student Jamie Hubley last October prompted him to accept the invitation to speak about the Charter

Bishops should act: moral leadership required against Gay Agenda

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Image via Wikipedia The cultural warfare about the “normalization” of same-sex “marriage” and the homosexual lifestyle in Ontario ’s schools is coming to a head. Our main feature in Catholic Insight’s July/August edition, “ Canada’s public and Catholic schools under siege ” provides a record, however inadequate, of what has transpired so far in Ontario. It also sets this battle in the context of international events which are rushing towards the same abyss. Finally, it documents Premier McGuinty’s personal efforts in how to subvert Canada’s school system. Many Canadians continue to underestimate the willful determination, intolerance and even rage with which the partisans of “same-sex marriage” are determined to claim equality and thereby trounce traditional marriage.  Alas they meet feeble resistance, not to mention open co-operation.  Why is the Church’s voice so weak? Within the Church there is the destruction wrought by 50 years of dissenting theologians, priests and bishops.  O