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The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms ( JCCF.ca ) today released recent correspondence ( 1 ,  2 ,  3 ) between Alberta Education and independent faith-based schools. In September of 2018, Deputy Minister Curtis Clark  threatened  religious schools with defunding and loss of accreditation if they do not remove religious content from their "Safe and Caring" school policies. During the week of October 1-5, several schools whose Safe and Caring policies had been deemed non-compliant by the Alberta Education "Safe and Caring Team" requested clarification ( 1 ,  2 ,  3 ) as to how the religious views expressed in their policies could be found to violate "diversity" or be "unwelcoming, uncaring and/or disrespectful" . The October correspondence shows the Alberta government refuses to provide any explanation as to how, for example, "diversity" is threatened by a school's policy that reflects the school's belief in t...

The NDP’s Education Minister David Eggen has been hard at work on this since the day he took office, launching a two-pronged assault on Alberta’s education system: Transform the curriculum of the public schools, and force the religious schools to either conform to NDP standards or simply destroy them. Christian schools were told that they would be forced to establish Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs at the request of a single student and that it would be illegal to tell parents if their children wanted to join it.  Predictably — and Eggen and his cronies knew this would happen — many religious schools are unwilling to implement these changes due to the fact that these policies directly conflict with the founding principles of Judeo-Christian institutions. As religious schools desperately attempt to fight off these attacks on their identity and beliefs in the courts, Premier Rachel Notley’s so-called Ministry of Education has recently revealed that the initial cannon fire is just the...

For the vast majority of religious schools, it was a shock to learn that they might be allowed to remove a student simply because of their sexual orientation—they had never considered that course of action. However, while that particular issue may have been a storm in a teacup, behind the irrational bullying furor  of the last week, there are much bigger questions that need to be resolved. Like what it means for a religious community to be able to live in accordance with its deepest convictions and beliefs. That is the question the Ruddock Review was asked to address. Changes to discrimination laws could compel faith-based schools to either change their convictions or to close. In a culture increasingly unfamiliar with religious conviction, it can be hard to understand what it’s like to have religious faith. Contrary to the stereotypes, faith usually means serious thought, regular self-examination, times of doubt and times of intellectual wrestle. It also means believing th...

The leaders of the transgender revolution revile the celebrated declaration, “It’s a boy” or “It’s a girl,” when a baby is born. Transgender activists recognize that their revolution cannot succeed until doctors who deliver babies, or ultrasound technicians at women’s cliques, stop labeling babies as a specific gender. The announcement of a baby’s gender, however, still fills delivery rooms and doctor’s offices with excitement. I predict that this practice will continue. Recently, an article ran in “The Ethicist” column of the New York Times Magazine. The ethicist, in this case, is Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah. The headline in the article asked, “Should I Go to a Gender-Reveal Party?” The questioner who wrote in for advice posted to “The Ethicist” the following scenario: “A close relation is pregnant with her first child and is having a gender-reveal party. She is overjoyed with the addition to our family, as am I. However, I am adamantly opposed to attending the gender-reveal pa...

A media outlet here in Australia has released what it says are the 20 recommendations made by the  Expert Panel on Religious Freedom  chaired by the Hon Philip Ruddock. The Report itself was delivered to the Government in May 2018 but has not officially been released. Apparently, the Government is planning to release the Report at the same time as announcing its official response. The main issue which has generated controversy during the last week, in which there was a selective leaking of some of the recommendations, were proposals dealing with the rights of  religious schools to take into account the sexual orientation of students  in certain areas. The changes proposed were not radical changes to the existing law, but were presented as such when first publicized Background- religious schools and discrimination Commonwealth law has for some time prohibited discrimination on certain specific grounds, limited because the Commonwealth needs specific “...

A man who handed out flyers regarding the brokenness and health issues of the homosexual lifestyle choices in Tasmania five years ago has lost a court bid to avoid making a public apology for his correct free speech behavior. James Durston distributed copies of a flyer titled "Homosexuality" in the Sandy Bay area of Hobart in 2013. It said, that "homosexuality should not be tolerated" and that scripture rejects homosexuality as "utterly abominable". Robert Williams, a homosexual man, complained to the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal in May 2013, saying the flyers demonstrated "bigotry, prejudice, and hatred is still a plague in our community". In 2015 the tribunal upheld Williams' complaint and ordered Durston to publish an 85mm x 94mm ad in The Hobart Mercury newspaper apologizing for distributing the flyers and to not do it again. But Durston appealed the decision in the Tasmanian Supreme Court, where his argument was...

A BAKERY run by a Christian family in Northern Ireland on Wednesday won a landmark case in Britain’s highest court over its refusal to make a cake decorated with the words “Support Gay Marriage”. The Supreme Court upheld the owners’ appeal against a May decision that found them guilty of discriminating against gay rights activist Gareth Lee. The bakery called the ruling a momentous day for religious freedom in Britain while Lee condemned it as a profound blow for civil rights. “I paid my money, my money was taken and then a few days later it was refused. That made me feel like a second-class citizen. I feel like they hate me.” he told reporters after listening to the verdict. “I’m concerned not just for the implications for myself and other gay people, but for every single one of us because we get easily offended over anyone who disagrees. Like, who do poeple think they are? Anybody who objects to our love should be jailed. ” The case pitted Northern Ireland’s strong Protestant and ...