Homosexual Indoctrination Grade 12 Curriculum to Start in British Columbia Schools

LifeSiteNews ^ | 9/4/07 | Hilary White

[wagglebee]

VANCOUVER, September 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Starting next week, British Columbia will introduce its grade 12 "Social Justice" elective course that will see homosexuality promoted in BC schools as an "alternate lifestyle" equivalent to natural marriage. The course is only the first part of a larger K-12 curriculum resulting from a Human Rights complaint settlement by the government with a pair of homosexual activists.

The British Columbia Human Rights Commission ordered that Murray Corren and his homosexual partner Peter Corren be allowed to force the BC Education Ministry to accept their curriculum and that parents will not be allowed to remove their children. Murray Corren wanted the K-12 curriculum to include, "Queer history and historical figures, the presence of positive queer role models -- past and present -- the contributions made by queers to various epochs, societies and civilizations and legal issues relating to (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) people, same-sex marriage and adoption."

It was revealed in 2006 that the provincial government had signed the settlement contract with the two men giving them unprecedented control over the content of the curriculum. The contract stipulated that the education ministry would meet with the men every six months until September 1, 2007 to allow them to oversee the development process.

The Vancouver Sun reports that among the "key learning concepts" in the new course are "ableism, ageism, anthropocentrism, consumerism, cultural imperialism, extremism, feminism, fundamentalism, heterosexism, humanism, racism, sexism and speciesism."

Heterosexism is defined as a "prejudice against homosexuals on the assumption that heterosexuality is the norm".

Glen Hansman, president of the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers' Association admitted in the Sun that the curriculum will require students to examine injustices to homosexuals because of the assumption that heterosexuality is normal and to "take a stand against these injustices."

Sean Murphy, spokesman for the BC Catholic Civil Rights League is quoted by the Sun saying that the course "can be used by individual teachers as a vehicle to turn students against the Catholic Church on the grounds that it violates human rights by opposing practices like abortion, contraception and homosexual conduct."

With the inclusion in the list of "speciesism", the course will also introduce the concept of animal rights, a key issue in the world of secularist utilitarian bioethics that proposes human beings are no more important than animals. The term was coined by Peter Singer, the Princeton bioethicist who promotes infanticide and euthanasia on utilitarian grounds. Singer is generally considered the "father" of the modern extremist animal rights movement.

The two homosexual men filed a complaint against the B.C. Ministry of education in 1999 alleging that the Ministry's curriculum didn't adequately "address issues of sexual orientation." The result was a curriculum, the writing of which was supervised by Murray Corren, that teaches students that the "gay lifestyle" is safe and as natural as heterosexual relations.

The pair particularly objected that the law allowed an opt-out provision in which teachers are under an obligation to advise parents when a subject deemed to be "sensitive" is raised in the classroom. The complaint demanded that homosexuality be removed from the list of issues considered officially "sensitive."

The issue has sparked protest rallies by parents' groups concerned by the erosion of parental rights and the right of religious people to protect their children from secularist indoctrination.

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[wagglebee]

Heterosexism is defined as a "prejudice against homosexuals on the assumption that heterosexuality is the norm".

By their own overinflated count homosexuals only comprise 10% of the population, this means that heterosexuality IS THE NORM.

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[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Speciesism? ROTFL! It just gets crazier and crazier.

[Dilbert San Diego]

This is not surprising since same-sex marriage is legal in Canada. So, it follows logically that any sex education or family life education type classes would be required to talk about homosexuality as an equivalent of heterosexual couples forming families.

[TruthConquers]

I don’t disagree,...

but since when has logic been the strong point for any leftist indoctrination drivel?

[pogo101]

I really don’t have a problem with NOT EXCISING the fact of a historically significant person was gay/bi, but if and only if such is somehow relevant to the curricular/ contextual treatment of that figure. And usually, a person’s sexual orientation just isn’t any reasonable part of the *reason why* he or she is historically important.

Example: Leonardo da Vinci was probably gay; Michelangelo certainly was. But in K-12 studies, is that likely to be genuinely worth mentioning? Probably not.

[montag813]

"key learning concepts" in the new course are "ableism, ageism, anthropocentrism, consumerism, cultural imperialism, extremism, feminism, fundamentalism, heterosexism, humanism, racism, sexism and speciesism.

SPECIESISM??? Are we next going to see chimpanzees sitting next to humans in Vancouver high schools?

[montag813]

Where is the Canadian Prime Minister to call on schools to refuse this curriculum and for parents to remove their children until they do so? That is the only rational next course for him after this insanity.

[43north]

[SPECIESISM??? Are we next going to see chimpanzees sitting next to humans in Vancouver high schools?]

Chimps, liberals, what’s the difference?

[Freedom4US]

Always remember that those who claim to want to “treat animals like humans” really want to treat humans like animals.

[Alouette]

Why is it necessary to mention every historical personality who might have been gay, when it is never mentioned that, for example, Johann Sebastian Bach was straight?

[wagglebee]

If I was a parent in Canada, I would rather have my child in a classroom with chimpanzees than with militant homosexuals.

[doc1019]

Excellent point!

[EagleUSA]

AGAIN, the queer agenda in academia rears its ugly head to be forced down the throats of kids. The indoctrination and force-feeding of radical leftist dogma just continues unabated in government school systems. If I had to educate mine over again, they would NEVER set foot in a liberal indoctrination camp. Just too many examples exist where if the government touches it, it turns to #$%@. Parents had better get involved in the public education process and get control of it SOON.

[HoosierHawk]

In 1994, the University of Chicago completed the most "definitive" sex survey ever.

"Only 2.7% of men and 1.3% of women report that they had homosexual sex in the past year."

Time magazine reports on the study.

So why do these people continue to tell us that we shouldn't care what they do in the privacy of their own home, (which I don't), and then tell us what we should think about it?

[fanfan]

[Mrs. Don-o]

Lots and lots of leading political and cultural figures through the ages were alcoholics and adulterers, too. Far too many to list here. And why are their lifestyles passed over in silence in the grade school classroom, as if they were irrelevant to their achievements-— or would some bigot be irrational enough to suggest that this behavior fell short of society’s norms?

Sigh. Guess I need a /sarc

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Rampant Homophilia run amok