This is our fourth article on the Toronto School Board’s decision to promote the homosexual lifestyle. Readers will not be surprised. Abortion, infanticide, abuse of women, euthanasia and homosexual activity are intimately connected to one another.
In Canada, abortion and homosexual acts (done in private between adults) were legalized at the same time. The drive for abortion in the sixties was followed by the gay drive for acceptance in the seventies.
But the relationship is not only one of time. There is an intellectual and philosophical connection. This centers around the contraceptive mentality which is anti-child and anti-family and which is the source of these and other regrettable developments.
Editor
On October 16, 1992, CURE (Citizens United for Responsible Education) sent all the Home and School Associations of the Toronto Board of Education a package of materials regarding the new teacher’s guide Sexual orientation: Focus on Homosexuality, Lesbianism and Homophobia. The 162 parent associations received the package via the school principals.
Within two hours of its arrival, Joan Green, Director of Education, sent a memo to every principal telling each to “Consider the letter from Gambini and ignore the material from CURE.
The letter from Tony Gambini, a counselor in the Human Sexuality Student Support Services, offered any high school teacher who was interested, regardless of his or her subject area, a classroom presentation on homosexuality. Gambini promised that “Lesbian and gay students will be part of the presentation whenever possible.”
The director of Education wanted the principals to ignore a four page summary of the very guide their teachers would be using in a matter of weeks. At the time the board had made no summary of its own.
The CURE package also contained criticism of the curriculum from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Professor Mark Holmes and from a prominent Toronto psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Berger. Dr. Berger had sat on the original advisory committee for the guide but had written an eight page dissenting brief. Some principals privately said they were offended by the Joan Green memo.
CURE
A week later CURE again mailed the 162 schools the package, this time directly to Home and School Association Presidents.
On October 29th the Toronto Board refused for a third time to re-open the issue of deferring the controversial curriculum for one year for parental consultation. The Toronto Sun and Toronto Star carried photos of the forty parents who staged a demonstration at the Board meeting. Parents wearing gags marked “censored” sat silently through the vote. Some held signs reading “Board Gags Parents.”
CURE had criticized the board for never making a summary of their almost 300 page guide. Finally at the same October 29th meeting, a four page “summary” was distributed. It stated the goals of the curriculum, had one chart and a table of contents. It thus was full of intent but gave no actual content from lessons plans. Nor was it page referenced.
The CURE summary in contrast came out earlier, contained actual class activities, questions and case studies and was page referenced throughout.
The Board will run in-service training during November for all secondary health education teachers before they use the document. Curriculum could be in the schools as early as December.