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In a vivid demonstration of how Canada, from the Liberal government down to the local public school, is conducting a war on Judeo-Christian morality, a Christian father who has been battling for the simple right to get advance notice before his children are indoctrinated with LGBTTIQ values watched his case hit Ontarioâs appeal court this week.
Steve Tourloukis, a father of two children, initially requested religious accommodation from the school board for his children in 2010, after the 2009 Equity and Inclusivity Education Strategy was implemented by then-minister of education Kathleen Wynne, a lesbian, and her deputy minister, Ben Levin. Levin was convicted in March 2015 of three child pornography related charges.
In 2010, Tourloukis simply asked to be alerted beforehand when and how his children, who were four and six, would be taught about homosexuality, abortion, the occult, and cultural relativism. Once notified, he could choose to keep them at home, so he could decide whether to withdraw them from class.
In 2012, Tourloukis began a legal challenge, objecting to teachers making âvalue judgmentsâ in class, e.g. homosexuality as natural, or abortion as morally acceptable.
Justice Robert Reid ruled Tourloukisâ Charter rights had been violated, but that was âreasonableâ because of the competing Charter âvaluesâ of âinclusivity, equality and multiculturalism,â and public school boardsâ statutory obligations.
Reid said Tourloukis could send his children to private schools. Polizogopoulos asked the Appeal Court to reverse Reidâs decision.
On Monday, as LifeSite News reported:
The boardâs lawyer argued a public school is not allowed to âindoctrinateâ students, but that Ontarioâs public schools have statutory obligation to create safe schools, including the EIES, Policy Memorandum 119, and the 2012 Accepting Schools Act, or Bill 13. Accommodating Tourloukis would âdirectly impact the ability of Ontario public schools to provide students with a positive, inclusive, and supportive educational environment.â
Attorney Josh Hunter, representing the Liberal government, said if the Tourloukis children didnât attend class it to leave class would âundermine the boardâs message that it is important to accept, welcome, and celebrate diversityâ and would be âharmful to the rights of other students to feel accepted and welcomed.â
Worse, ETFO lawyer Kate Hughes argued teachers were mandated by law to positively represent homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism: to teach children not just to âtolerateâ LGBTQ lifestyle, but to âhonour and respectâ and âcelebrateâ it.
Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life Coalitionâs senior political strategist, called Hughesâ assertion âa brazen, unashamed admission that indoctrination was the goal.â He told LifeSiteNews that she argued that âteachers have a statutory obligation to celebrate LGBT identities and same-sex relationships, and that if teachers arenât embedding that celebration into every subject every day, then theyâre not meeting the âstatutory objectives.'â
Steve Tourloukis, a father of two children, initially requested religious accommodation from the school board for his children in 2010, after the 2009 Equity and Inclusivity Education Strategy was implemented by then-minister of education Kathleen Wynne, a lesbian, and her deputy minister, Ben Levin. Levin was convicted in March 2015 of three child pornography related charges.
In 2010, Tourloukis simply asked to be alerted beforehand when and how his children, who were four and six, would be taught about homosexuality, abortion, the occult, and cultural relativism. Once notified, he could choose to keep them at home, so he could decide whether to withdraw them from class.
In 2012, Tourloukis began a legal challenge, objecting to teachers making âvalue judgmentsâ in class, e.g. homosexuality as natural, or abortion as morally acceptable.
Justice Robert Reid ruled Tourloukisâ Charter rights had been violated, but that was âreasonableâ because of the competing Charter âvaluesâ of âinclusivity, equality and multiculturalism,â and public school boardsâ statutory obligations.
Reid said Tourloukis could send his children to private schools. Polizogopoulos asked the Appeal Court to reverse Reidâs decision.
On Monday, as LifeSite News reported:
The boardâs lawyer argued a public school is not allowed to âindoctrinateâ students, but that Ontarioâs public schools have statutory obligation to create safe schools, including the EIES, Policy Memorandum 119, and the 2012 Accepting Schools Act, or Bill 13. Accommodating Tourloukis would âdirectly impact the ability of Ontario public schools to provide students with a positive, inclusive, and supportive educational environment.â
Attorney Josh Hunter, representing the Liberal government, said if the Tourloukis children didnât attend class it to leave class would âundermine the boardâs message that it is important to accept, welcome, and celebrate diversityâ and would be âharmful to the rights of other students to feel accepted and welcomed.â
Worse, ETFO lawyer Kate Hughes argued teachers were mandated by law to positively represent homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism: to teach children not just to âtolerateâ LGBTQ lifestyle, but to âhonour and respectâ and âcelebrateâ it.
Jack Fonseca, Campaign Life Coalitionâs senior political strategist, called Hughesâ assertion âa brazen, unashamed admission that indoctrination was the goal.â He told LifeSiteNews that she argued that âteachers have a statutory obligation to celebrate LGBT identities and same-sex relationships, and that if teachers arenât embedding that celebration into every subject every day, then theyâre not meeting the âstatutory objectives.'â