Critics slam Ontario’s new sex ed for promoting homosexuality, gender theory, masturbation
Pro-family groups blasted Ontario premier Doug Ford’s government Wednesday over a sex-ed curriculum they say is a betrayal of parents and no better than the radical program Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne rolled out in 2015. They also denounced the Tory government’s “opt-out” provision, much touted in the press, as “completely ineffective.” After Ford’s landslide victory last June, his government scrapped Wynne’s 2015 sex-ed curriculum and reverted to a 2010 version pending promised consultations with parents, although Lisa Thompson, his education minister at the time, said students had to learn gender identity theory. But most media accounts agree the Grade 1 to 8 sex-ed curriculum that education minister Stephen Lecce released online August 21 closely resembles the Liberal product Ford vowed during his election campaign to repeal. The Ford sex-ed curriculum “largely mirrors the previous Liberal government’s 2015 curriculum,” reported the Globe and Mail . ...