A mother's witness and example on fighting back the "Equity" policy

At the Toronto Catholic District School Board meeting held on December 15, a mother made an important presentation to trustees and board members. She came to express her serious concern that the Education and Inclusive Education Strategy is being used to promote and normalize the homosexual lifestyle. Her address will be overlooked by a compromised mainstream media, but it's the kind of information parents need if they wish to push back the Liberal government's plan to over-sexualize and radically transform school curriculum. This parent correctly identified the need to monitor the kind of resources schools use such as textbooks in order to prevent the total erosion of Christian teaching. As a mother, she urged the trustees and board officials to implement the "Equity" policy so that it's consistent with these four pillars of the Catholic faith:

1. to uphold the Church's teaching especially on the vocation to chastity;

2. to promote more prayers and a stronger faith life in the schools: the Rosary, confession and the Mass;

3. to promote the teaching on sexuality based Blessed John Paul II's Theology of the Body;

4. to allow parents to be the first educators of their children when it comes to sexuality and moral issues.

Yes, the "Equity" policy continues to be implemented in Ontario schools that have not already done so. The McGuinty government now wants to pass Bill 13 in order to back this policy with legislation and make every sexual orientation equal before the law. This mother's appeal is a good example to all of us, if as Christians, we really want to fight the Equity policy. Everyday for Life Canada fully supports and applauds this mother's efforts.

As we enter 2012, we should ask ourselves a number of questions: Do we care enough about the faith to defend it? Will parents take, as this mother has, the issue of their children's instruction on moral and sexual matters seriously enough to reclaim their parental rights? Are we ready to make the sacrifices necessary to make sure the schools our children attend are being truthful to the Catechism of the Catholic Church? Are parents trying themselves to live the faith in order to know what they are protecting and at the same time giving their children a witness to that belief? Parents, after all, have the responsibility to be the true and primary educators of their children's morality and sexuality.

These no doubt are difficult confessional question, but our answers not what the government and school boards do, will in the end determine whether we will continue to have faithful, funded Catholic schools in this province. It's not easy to overcome our complacency and not anaesthetize our spiritual needs with the lure of more material comforts and electronic toys. Faith as we know is neither legislated nor can it be taken away by premiers or kings. It's a divine gift. Each Christian, each family makes a choice whether to accept it and live it or reject it by not practicing it or taking it for granted. Let's pray for the grace to know how best to live, promote and protect God's gift of faith to children and their parents.