Posted on 10/12/2012 5:59:09 PM PDT by annalex
The US cares about its Constitution. Freepers care about the US Constitution.
My understanding is that the agreement that was the Canadian constitution (1867 British North Ameerican Act) included a clause that guaranteed public funding for one Catholic schools in one Canadian province - Ontario. So be it. Politicians must respect it.
I don’t think the school funding is the issue, really. The issue is the government driving its pro-abort agenda without regard for its own citizenry, who would not send their children to a Catholic school if they objected them taught Catholic values.
The “settlement” in Canada, which was supposed to allow Canadian Catholic taxpayers to support their own school system, instead of the (back in the good old days) Anglican Protestant government system, has been abrogated. If the Canadian bishops have any spine, it’s time for them to start establishing independent Catholic schools, while making it clear that the government is treacherously welching on a promise that it made.
When you take government money, you dance to the government’s tune.
No, because they will end up paying for both their kids' education and someone else's, just like American parents are forced to do if they choose a private school.
They should simply demand respect for their constitutional rights, and if Canada wishes to instead privatize its school system wholesale, then it is for the much ballyhooed democratic system to decide, not for the bishops alone.
Where the heck are the Bishops? This is serious stuff. Catholic schools cannot teach Catholic teaching on abortion and homosexual activity? Being falsely charged as “misogynistic” or “homophobic”? This is an outrage.
Like I said, some countries were meant to remain colonies.
I think that once a Catholic school denies that abortion is evil then that school is no longer Catholic. In a sense it invalidates the BNA of 1867 (Canadian constitution). This is the issue in my mind.
That’s the problem with being publicly funded. Every dipsh*t gov’t apparatchiks feels they own you.
Alberta tried the same with homeschools, and Alberta’s government is dominated by so-called “conservatives”
Standing up for their constitutional rights is a fine thing, but in the meantime it’s not acceptable for a school operating under the aegis of the church to be teaching gross error as truth.
This woman is clearly an enemy of the Church. Where. is. the. EXCOMMUNICATION?
Thank you for the post!
Right, Islamic schools not allowed to teach Jihad? No they are “underdogs” so untouchable.
93. In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation to Education, subject and according to the following Provisions:Thus the Catholic Denominational Schools have the guaranteed right to teach according to Catholic doctrine against abortion. Of course this means nothing to "Liberal" tyrants.(1) Nothing in any such Law shall prejudicially affect any Right or Privilege with respect to Denominational Schools which any Class of Persons have by Law in the Province at the Union
The Liberal thinks of the schools as an arm of the state. This is the real rationale behind compulsory education. The schools ought to be free, but not compulsory. That, of course, creates a problem in a society in which youngsters find so little work that they continue in school until their mid 20s, as wards of the state.
When you take government money, you dance to the government’s tune.
So, will the Canadian Catholics follow the law of man over the law of God? If this is implemented we will certainly be able to identify the wheat from the tares.
I am actually amused that you don’t think the government tells schools what to teach.
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