Showing posts with label Halton Catholic School Board. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halton Catholic School Board. Show all posts

Friday, January 7, 2011

"WE DON'T HAVE NAZI GROUPS EITHER"

From Xtra!:
With the world’s spotlight on the It Gets Better campaign and gay teen suicides, the urgency for schools to create gay-straight alliance (GSA) groups seems obvious.

But while the Ontario Ministry of Education thinks GSAs are important, the Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) takes a different view.

The HCDSB feels the groups are harmful and has issued a ban on GSAs altogether.

“We don’t have Nazi groups either,” rationalizes board chair Alice Anne LeMay. “Gay-straight alliances are banned because they are not within the teachings of the Catholic Church.”

“If a gay student requests a gay-straight alliance they would be denied,” she says flatly.

“It’s not in accordance with the teachings of the church. If they wanted to have a club outside of school, fine, just not in school.”

What to say? For a school board member of a so-called Christian school to equate the Gay Straight Alliance with Nazis is not against the teachings of the church? Truly, I'm rendered speechless.

H/T to Rob Tisinai at Box Turtle Bulletin, who says:
Thank you Alice Anne LeMay, thank you. Not everyone can make our opponents look so ridiculous in so few words.