‘Queer theory’ scholar confirms parental concerns about purpose of gay clubs in Catholic schools
Earlier this week, a Catholic blogger tipped me off on Twitter , sending me the link to a PhD thesis published earlier this month titled, “ Gay-Straight Alliances and Student Activism in Ontario Public Secular and Catholic High Schools ,” written by Alicia A. Lapointe of the University of Western Ontario . Lapointe’s thesis essentially confirms what many parental rights advocates have been pointing out for years: That the prime function of GSAs is not simply to be a “support group,” as LGBT activists have claimed. Rather, these groups are intended to be a way of promoting a specific ideological agenda within the school system, especially within the Catholic school system. Lapointe is up front about this, laying out her thesis as an “in-depth examination of the educative and activist function of the GSAs in two public and two public Catholic Ontario secondary schools,” which she conducts through the lens of “queer theory,” “critiquing th...