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Yukon Education Minister forbids Catholic schools to teach Catholic doctrine on homosexuality

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WHITEHORSE, Yukon , March 21, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Scott Kent , the Education Minister for the Yukon, has forbidden publicly funded Catholic schools to educate students about the Catholic Church's teachings on homosexuality. Last week, Yukon Bishop Gary Gordon  thought he was complying  with the wishes of the Minister by removing a document outlining the Catholic teaching from a Catholic school website, while noting that the teaching would still be given to students. However, Kent this week said that was not good enough. He ordered the teaching to stop in a letter sent to Bishop Gordon March 19. Scott Kent, Yukon Education Minister, says the government's morality reigns supreme in Catholic schools. In comments to  Yukon News ,  Kent said that “religious instructional material and curriculum in the Catholic separate schools ,” which are inconsistent with Canadian tolerance laws and policies, “cannot have application in any publicly supported sc...