At
the end of January, the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) hosted a professional development day dedicated
to “equity” training, where they distributed a sheet to teachers with “quick responses” they can
offer to parents who object ... That document was obtained by journalist Mark Cripps, and posted on the webiste of the Hamilton Mountain News.
Cripps observes that the handout “basically
indicates parents have no rights when it comes to their child’s education at the HWDSB.”
In addition, Cripps reports that, “The board says no child will be excused from the class when topics of homosexuality
are brought into the classroom.”
The school board is developing a new equity policy, as
required of all boards under the Ontario Ministry of Education's equity strategy, announced last year. Among other
things, the Ministry is requiring all boards, Catholic and public, to develop a plan for combating [fictitous] “homophobia.”
But God warns: "Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators ... nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,
nor sodomites will inherit the Kingdom of God." (1 Cor 6:9-10)
The sheet given to the HWDSB
teachers specifies that teachers do not “condone” the removal of children from classes that deal with homosexuality.
If told, “This is against our rights as parents to teach our own set of family values,” the board suggests teachers
offer the following responses:
- “As teachers, we do not condone children being removed
from our classes when we teach about Aboriginal People, people of color, people with disabilities or homosexuals and lesbians.
- “You can teach your child your own values at home. Public schools teach everyone about respecting
diversity and valuing everyone.
- “This is not about parent rights. Children
have the right to an inclusive education free from discrimination.”
Jim Enos, President
of the Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council (HWFAC), told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that he was struck by “the obvious
point that parents who object [to the homosexuality curriculum] will be ignored, and that the schools educate your children
in their ideology whether you like it or not.”
Since HWFAC was founded 14 years ago, they
have fought hard with the school board to ensure that Judeo-Christian values are respected. On this latest initiative,
Enos says that the school board's response has been to say, “'You can do what you want at home, we understand, but
when you get to school, different matter.' In other words, they're saying that schools have priority rights in the
education of children.
“That's wrong,” he insisted. “We are the educators
of the children. [Schools] are an extension of us, we're not an extension of them.”
In
addition to the examples above, teachers are advised to respond to the objection by parents that the homosexuality curriculum
is “recruitment or teaching about sex!”, by saying that high school students need “accurate information
about relationships and safe sex.” If parents insist that their child is too young for the subject matter, the
teachers are to tell them that it is the teacher's job “to teach accurate, up-to-date information to every child,
including yours.”
Enos sat on the school board's Sexual Orientation Steering Committee
for two years. He explained that he had attempted to make a presentation to the Committee on the negative health effects
of homosexuality, as documented by the Ontario Ministry of Health. The Committee would only allow him to distribute
a handout, he said, and dismissed his concerns.
“We won't have any negative [truthful]
bias, just positive [deception] bias,” they told him, he said.
Contact Information:
John Malloy, Director of Education
Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
100 Main St. West
P.O. Box 2558
Hamilton, ON L8N 3L1
Phone: (905) 527-5092 ext.2297
E-mail: pat.stones@hwdsb.on.ca (through Executive Assistant)
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Obama Lies About FaithSome of Obama's lies to Christians in one January 2008 Christianity Today interview alone include, Obama:
- Said "I am a devout Christian", but devout Christians love God with all their heart, all their soul and all
their mind. Instead, Obama knowingly breaks God's Ten Commandments (abortion) and is trying to change God's ordinance on marriage.
(Mark 12:30)
- Said "I don't know anyone who is pro-abortion", but Obama said he
would leave a living baby who survived an abortion to die, and he and Hillary Clinton have given hundreds of million of US
money to fund abortions in foreign countries, including China, through the UN.
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Said "I have never practiced Islam... it's not my own", but he says he is a Muslim in other videos and his Indonesian
school records list Obama as a Muslim, where he was taught Islam.
- Said "we don't lie about religion as a way to score political points", but this interview was used to
lie to Christians.
"I am upset with Obama lying to the USA about faith - he deceived
so many", said one dissatisfied voter.
The Fruit Shows
Obama is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"You will know them by their fruit", Jesus
said speaking of wolves in sheep's clothing. Jesus also says, "He who has My commands
and obeys them, it is he who loves Me" (John 14:21). But Obama disobeys Jesus' commands, such as lying, trying to overturn
God's command of man-woman marriage, removing abstinence teaching from schools, breaking the Ten Commandments which say not
kill the unborn, covering up Jesus at Georgetown, removing the daily Bible verse at the Pentagon, trying to remove Jesus at Christmas...
Christians are commanded to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. With 82%
of the USA believing Jesus Christ and the majority pro-life, Americans should be outraged. (Polls from Rasmussen Reports.)
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