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| Yukon Education Minister Scott Kent |
WHITEHORSE, Yukon, July 3, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While Yukon’s school year has ended, negotiations on whether publicly-funded Catholic schools can educate students about the Church's teachings on homosexuality remain ongoing.
Yukon Bishop Gary Gordon told LifeSiteNews.com that he hopes there will not be a showdown between the Church and the government. But the Ministry of Education has confirmed that it is “not flexible” when it comes to schools complying with the territory’s newly-minted “Sexual orientation and gender identity” policy.
“We have an overarching policy to deal with gender identity and the like,” said Matthew Grant, Communications Director for the Government of Yukon, to LifeSiteNews. “What we’re looking for, and what is being done, is each individual school can come up with their own policy that falls under the umbrella policy.”
Bishop Gordon hopes that one point will be maintained during the negotiations: “I’m a Catholic Bishop so I’m going to be teaching the Catholic faith. That’s what I do,” he said. (more..)
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