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Catholic chaplains/principals promote summer camp run by dissidents, gay activists: parents protest

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Correction: This article originally stated that James Loney had “sued” the Knights of Columbus for homosexual discrimination. This is incorrect. Loney publicly accused the Knights of discrimination, but did not launch a lawsuit. We regret the error. BANCROFT, Ontario , 9 January, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Concerned pro-family leaders and parents are wondering why the Ontario Catholic Principals’ Council as well as the Ontario School Chaplains association are promoting a non-denominational “social justice” camp to students run by dissident Catholics and homosexual activists. A brochure for Camp Micah Camp Micah, which operates every August near Bancroft, Ontario , is a six day “ecumenical camp” that seeks to form young people to become the future leaders in “faith and justice,” according to the camp’s director. The camp’s  leadership team  includes a laicized Catholic priest and three pro-gay activists, one who performs homosexual ‘marriages’, another who is a practic

United Church elects Canada’s first openly gay leader of a major Christian denomination

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OTTAWA, August 23, 2012  - An openly homosexual United Church minister from Vancouver was elected as the 41st moderator of the United Church of Canada at the Protestant denomination’s General Council meeting held at Ottawa’s Carleton University last week. Rev. Gary Paterson of St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in downtown Vancouver was elected from a field of 15 nominees on August 16 to become the first openly homosexual leader of a major Christian denomination in Canada . Paterson was one of three openly homosexual candidates for the moderator’s job, which according to the  Ottawa Citizen  carries a salary of between $119,000 and $135,000 a year. Paterson succeeds the current moderator, Mardi Tindal . At a news conference following his election, Paterson acknowledged that his open homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” to Rev Tim Stevenson , another United Church minister, as well as the fact that he has three daughters from his first marriage, would be seen by many t