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Alberta NDP gvmt closes down Christian home-schooling association – pretense funding – truth – gay policy

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Alberta ’s largest Christian home-schooling association has been effectively shut down by the province’s NDP government after it found what Education Minister David Eggen called a “fail[ure] to demonstrate accountability of funding received from the government of Alberta.” But the association is denying wrongdoing. “WISDOM/Trinity has been shut down by AB Education. They announced this with a press release filled with partial truths amounting to calumny,” the association stated in a press release on Tuesday. An ; audit by the ministry   found what it claimed to be various spending irregularities of taxpayer dollars. In Alberta, each home-schooled child under the wing of a private school such as WISDOM/Trinity is   allotted   $1,670 of taxpayer funds to cover learning expenses such as curriculum. The audit claimed to find that money that should have been spent on educating students was used to fund inappropriate expenses such as babysitting, funeral expen...

UK PM David Cameron called traditional marriage supporters 'Neanderthals’

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David Cameron's calls all Christians idiots and backward. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) David Cameron privately described opponents of gay marriage as ‘ Neanderthals ’, according to a new biography on the Prime Minister. The revelation came in a biography written by Sir Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon , which was compiled from over 300 interviews with senior figures at Number 10. Sir Anthony said that the issue of gay marriage was very divisive in the party, with some calling it a “self-inflicted wound”. ‘Neanderthal judgement’ He wrote that Mr Cameron had considered including redefining marriage in his 2010 Conservative manifesto. Close advisers cautioned that the policy could be a distraction. In response to his advisers repeatedly warning him against gay marriage, the Prime Minister is quoted as saying: “Unless you are making some Neanderthal judgement on gays, those who are gay should have the same rights as those who are not.” Concerns Sir Anthony also said ...