Sept. 11, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - It may have been a long, hot summer, but Ontario parents do not appear to have blown off any steam. In spite of a barrage of advertisements promoting Premier Kathleen Wynne’s new sex education curriculum on the radio—I could barely turn on the news in my car without having to hear a silky-smooth voice reassure me that the children of Ontario were safe in Wynne’s hands—the protests have gone on unabated.
In Wynne’s own riding of Don Valley West, 700 children were kept out of Thorncliffe Park Public School on the first day of classes—nearly half of the students—and on day two a full thirty percent still failed to show up. Chris Selley in the National Post noted that “if the Ontario sex ed protests are going to fizzle, they haven’t yet,” while the Globe and Mail mused that this could very well become a federal election issue.
There is an underlying story here, as well. The sex ed protests are not simply fueled by the usual suspects: orthodox Catholics and Protestants. Rather, it is an enormously diverse movement cutting right across cultural, ethnic, and religious lines. They are Buddhist and Sikh, Chinese and Filipino, Muslim and Christian. They all have one thing in common: They are not buying into the post-modern experiment, and they are not pleased at the idea that the new sexual orthodoxy that often directly contradicts their beliefs is being passed from the state to their children. They are a coalition of what Christian scholar Francis Schaeffer called “co-belligerents”—dissimilar, but united behind a goal. (more...)
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