McGuinty’s gay clubs bill puts the bishops’ call for heroism to the test
June 11, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canada’s bishops gave us a striking call last month to make “heroic” sacrifices in the face of laws that violate our conscience. Providentially, their conviction was put to the test only weeks later. A mere 11 days after the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a strong letter on the need to stand up for freedom of conscience and religion, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced his government was amending its controversial “anti-bullying” bill to force Catholic schools into allowing “gay-straight alliances.” Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto Credit: Archdiocese of Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins and Ontario’s bishops warned that the bill was a threat to religious freedom “in a very real sense.” But what heroic action did they take when it passed on June 5th? In a 94-word statement , they wrote that despite their “serious concerns,” “the Accepting Schools Act is now the law” and the Cat...