Canada is sparsley populated and is dependent upon private institutions for the education of its popluation. If the Canadian government wants to promote same-gender sexual intercourse in its public school system then it really should establish its own public school system as opposed to making unreasonable demands of those private institutions that do for the Canadian citizenry what the Canadian Government has not.

"Government exists to serve its people; the people do not exist to serve government" Thomas Jefferson

While the immediate issue speaks directly to our Catholic Faith, and it is necessary that the opposition understand that we will never be silenced, it is also true that this is not only a Catholic issue- that many other religious *and non religious* groups have skin in this game.

The great opportunity, it seems to me, is for all of us who uphold these truths to discover the obligation and the privilege of standing together on these issues.

This exemplifies the issue of freedom of conscience and religious liberty. It is not a purely Catholic issue. But it is an issue that exists in the USA as well. The advocates of gay identity politics intend to assert its supremacy over all other considerations and to push that as far as they can get away with.

The politician quoted got it wrong, anyway.

So did QueerNE.

Catholic teaching is that the same-sex sexual behavior is morally disordered. This is not an issue that can be resolved by science. Nor by identity politics.

The politician, and QueerNE implies as much, depends on a moral assumption that same-sex sexual behavior is moral, ever. That is a mere assertion that is not backed with sound moral argumentation.

Make no mistake. The politician is making a moral claim in the name of the supremacy of gay identity politics; he is using the power of government to enforce a moral assumption that does not, by mere assertion, stake out neutral ground for government to act within. He does not even pretend to be neutral.

This is not purely a Catholic issue. It is not purely a Canadian issue nor an Ontario issue. It is not purely a public education issue.

On that last point there is a moral teaching being imposed on all Catholic schools and that is an anti-Catholic teaching that comes from the peculiar sectarianism that some people, like this politician, cling to in a leap of faith rather than scientific evidence.

You need to understand something.

We will teach the Catholic Faith.

We will never cease.

There is no law, no government, no movement, no power on earth or in heaven or in any other place whatsoever that will stop us.

If you knew history, you would know this.

Since you don't, you are about to repeat it.

And he's correct.

The promoters of gay identity politics would have government impose anti-Catholic policies on Catholic institutions.

That exemplifes the larger problem that connects to the threat to freedom of conscience and religious liberty in the USA. This is not merely a Catholic issue.

But the politician quoted does not comprehend the teachings of the Catholic Church that he would prohibit.

He is wrong to say that the Church teaches that the person is disordered.

The behavior is morally disordered. That no gay advocate has managed to present a moral argument to back-up their moral assertion that same-sex sexual behavior is moral, ever, is a good sign that they stand on mere assertion and thus the governing authority that enforces that assertion is acting arbitrarily.

This also exemplifies the problem that is being created by the promotion of gay identity politics over and above all other considerations.

Now we get top find out whether there are still Catholic bishops in Ontario, or whether they have all apostatized.

All eyes on Ontario.....

There are some in the US who'd like to shred our Constitution and start over. Our president has complained publicly more than once about how restrictive our Constitution is. Duh.

Under the new Constitution chocolate ice cream and unicorns would become a "human right."

While we're at it, some of those Commandments are a little restrictive, too. Heck, let's rewrite 'em.

Simply bizarre.

If they really care about the health of the students--physical, mental, etc., they'll warn them. But then again, political agendas might trump real education.

Before you know it, "homosexual sex is the same as heterosexual sex" (even though it's completely different) and so-called "same-sex marriage" is the same as a real marriage (even though it's not) will be forced to be taught, with the boot of the pro-homosexual brownshirts' boots firmly in place on the Church's neck.

Soon, the pedophiles and the polygamists will find their way into positions of authority in the government. How can a country survive when its morality is dictated by the government (which has destroyed religion) and the government is infiltrated by immoral people? It's the inmates running the asylum. Where are the Canadian sheep, er, people on this?