And again. Below are numerous posts at Values Voter News that have recently surfaced over this issue. But below the videos and posts is a recent article out of Canada proving that if the gay rights activist really had their way politically our rights as parents and differing points of view will erode in the public square.
See YouTube update on testimony of Charlene Cothran an ex-gay and gay activist and gay magazine publisher along with other testimonies...
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Same Sex Marriage will effect education.
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If you don't think the gay marriage debate will effect education look no further then California, the NEA and then head out to the UK
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People who oppose same-sex adoption are "retarded homophobes", , according to advice published by a Government-funded adoption charity.
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Found this article at GlobeCampus.com
Bill under attack for catering to right-wing parents
Activist, teachers upset by legislation that allows children to be yanked from classes teaching sensitive subjects
May 18, 2009 08:32 AM EDT
This weekend, Alberta's teachers slammed proposed new rules that would give parents sweeping rights to pull kids from classes on touchy subjects, and be notified in advance when lessons focus on religion, sexuality or sexual orientation."
Sweeping rights? As if we shouldn't have those rights. I found that adjective interesting. Anyways, to get a flavor of the otherside on this issue continue reading below. I still think that parental rights should be favored over a teachers. I don't know how Canada works but in America we pay the taxes so we parents fund the schooling and so we should have the final say not the teacher. We pay them and not the other way around.
If teachers can be brought before tribunals or be disciplined for speaking a dissenting view on homosexuality then teachers on the other side should be equally treated. Again I am not familiar with Canadian law but teachers with both views of sexuality should be equally treated and parental rights should reign above teachers free speech rights after all they are their kids parents are entrusting to the teachers and if the teachers desire to earn any trust they should reconsider their position in below article.
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The new measures were included as part of Bill 44, which enshrines gay rights in the province 11 years after they were imposed by the Supreme Court of Canada in a case that caused an ugly backlash in Alberta. In an interview yesterday, Alberta Culture and Community Spirit Minister Lindsay Blackett admitted that the provincial caucus wrote the school provisions into the bill as an olive branch to religious groups and conservative voters who might be offended by the province's move to codify gay rights.
"It doesn't hurt to have some balance on what you're bringing forward, so you can get some support from both ends of the political spectrum," he said.
The controversy is stark evidence of how the debate set off by Delwin Vriend continues to stir tension in the province today. In 1991, Mr. Vriend was fired from his science teacher job at Alberta's King's College, a Christian school, for being gay, at a time when sexual orientation was not included as grounds for discrimination in provincial legislation. He sought to change that and, when the Supreme Court ruled in his favour in 1998, it ensured that Alberta gays would receive protection from discrimination.
Yet for Mr. Vriend, who served as the most public face of the battles to modernize Alberta's human rights rules, the school provisions in Bill 44 run counter to much of what he fought for. The province's government had a chance to make a statement with symbolic importance, he said.
"It could have shown that Alberta is part of the modern world, that Alberta isn't the far south of the U.S. Unfortunately when we start to talk about being able to pull kids out of class for various reasons, including talk about gays and lesbians or evolution, that definitely points to a very backwards people," he said from Paris, where he now lives and works as a software engineer.
"That is so extremely damaging. It's abhorrent. It's unconscionable," he said.
On Saturday, Alberta's teachers voted their agreement, passing a resolution that stridently opposes Bill 44. Provincial rules already allow students to be exempted from sex education and "religious or patriotic instruction," but educators across the province - a group that includes the Alberta School Boards Association, the Alberta School Councils' Association and the College of Alberta School Superintendents - say the bill would bring a chill over classrooms.
The controversy is not a constitutional one, and teachers will not likely be able to rely on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to bolster their effort.
"You couldn't frame it in terms of the teachers' right to freedom of speech, because they can say what they want. It's just that the parents can say, 'Well, our kids aren't going to listen to it'," said Annalise Acorn, who teaches in the University of Alberta's faculty of law.
But the teachers hope enough has changed in Alberta since Mr. Vriend's case that a public campaign can convince the government to change course. Their concern is that wording in Bill 44 gives parents the right to be notified before any classroom "instruction" on potentially offensive subject matter. That means a classroom discussion that unexpectedly veers into delicate territory could land a teacher in hot water from parents who have not been notified, said Alberta Teachers' Association president Frank Bruseker.
"We're going to have all kinds of teachers in front of human rights tribunals instead of in front of kids," he said.
The government, however, said the legislation is intended to provide notice to parents solely when curriculum or a planned lesson delves into sensitive material. Still, the province is considering amending the bill before it becomes law, Mr. Blackett said.
"We will make the tweaks and accommodations to make sure that it's clear what the intent is," he said. "Because you can't be the thought police and try to determine what someone's going to say."
Mr. Bruseker is skeptical. "The view from our legal counsel is that this is not salvageable if it's just tinkering."
Mr. Blackett, however, dismissed the controversy as overwrought. It has been many years since Mr. Vriend was fired, and Alberta parents today will overwhelmingly leave their kids in class even if they are allowed to pull them out, he said. "We're the most tolerant province in the country," he said."
