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Motek

Thu, Nov 18 2004, 10:58 am

Muslim Parents Demand School Remove Their Children From Class Discussions On Gay Families

by Jan Prout

(Toronto, Ontario) Muslim parents Monday night demanded that their children be
removed from a mandatory class on diversity. The group told the Toronto
District School Board that the program promotes homosexuality.

The parents, whose children are enrolled in the downtown Market Lane Public
School, were particularly angered by discussions in the course on same-relations
marriage, and families where both parents are gay.

Speakers said that the program is disrespectful of Islam.

About 150 people packed the meeting room in a nearby community center.

After listening to the presentations the board refused to exclude the students
as a group deciding that removing any group of students from the class would
violate the rights of children of same-relations parents. Individual parents who do
not want their children to take part in the class can remove them, the board
decided.

Part of the class includes a video by a school board social worker illustrating
the feelings of children who have same-relations families and the taunts they receive
at school.

"There is sometimes the misunderstanding that anti-homophobia education is relations
education. It does not involve the explicit description of s-xual activity. It
discusses families," said Michelle Flecker, an equity worker at the board who
reviewed the board's policies for the meeting.

While the board has a policy to consider accommodation based on religious
rights, "religious beliefs do not trump human rights," Patricia Hayes, a human
rights expert with the school board told the Toronto Star.

"They showed a gay lifestyle to the kids without the knowledge of the parents,"
said Mohamed Yassin, a father of three. "They're willing to help gay students
with support. Gay people have their rights. I have my rights," Yassin told the
Star.

Toronto has a large Muslim community. Of the 560 students at Market Lane, about
10 to 15 per cent are Muslim.

(I did not provide the link to the article because it's a gay website!)

Motek

Thu, Nov 18 2004, 12:21 pm

somebody sent me the article in an e-mail, and included the website address

it was she who entitled the email: G-D HELP US!!! (with caps and exclamation points)

I assume the title expressed her anguish at the insanity in the world around us.

and yes, this madness in the schools around us affects us

Jews attend these schools and even the gentiles who attend them are forbidden to engage in homosexual relations as per the Noahide Laws.

That schools are allowed to promote deviant lifestyles should be of concern to us all.