As was widely reported yesterday, a judge of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench will begin hearing arguments in Medicine Hat today in a legal effort by a social conservative group to upend the Alberta law that prevents schools from informing parents when students join a gay-straight alliance. The claim
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Montreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Trinity Western Decision
If Andrew Scheer had a fantasy university it would almost certainly be a nightmare version of Trinity Western University.For it has a so-called covenant that blatantly discriminates against LGBT students.And he is a religious fanatic and ghastly homophobe who chooses to treat gay Canadians as if they didn't exist.As did his
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Church in fight over Alberta LGBTQ policy espouses far-right ideology, has close tie to advocacy group
PHOTOS: The New Testament Baptist Church near Spruce Grove, just west of Edmonton. Below: The vandalized sign, with some of the scrubbed pink spray paint still visible; additional signs on the site promoting the church and school; and administrator Rev. Brian Coldwell and private school advocate Donna Trimble, the latter two shots from the CBC. […]
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Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Vancouver Sun Letter
If anyone would like my two cents on the controversy surrounding Trinity Western University, its proposed law school, and its homophobic “Community Covenant,” please see the letters section of today’s Vancouver Sun. My letter appears at the very bottom, under the heading “Trinity’s gay policy anti-Christian.” Filed under: Education, Gay
Continue readingEclectic Lip: How Trinity Western University (unintentionally) promotes divorce
Trinity Western University has been in the news recently, as law societies in Ontario and Nova Scotia voted to not recognize lawyers trained at the religious university’s soon-to-open law school. These two law societies – like your blogger and the vast majority of Canadians – recoiled in horror at the
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