The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights was the gang who invited us out to participate in their Festival of Faiths in September. If you are interested, you can RSVP at http://www.jhcentre.org
December 13 @ 10330 84 Avenue, Edmonton
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Does your school suffer from an STD (Standard Teaching of Dogma)? SEA member Kathy Dawson has put together some tips and resources for dealing with religious-based sexual education in your public school.
http://scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.ca/2014/11/does-your-school-have-std-standard.html
If you aren’t familiar with Kathy’s current human rights complaint against the Edmonton Public School District, Paula Simons from the Edmonton Journal wrote a column about the topic in July. Edmonton’s Pregnancy Care Centre is explicitly Christ-based, and an affiliate of the Canadian Association of Pregnancy Support Services, whose Core Documents can be found on their website.
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a pastoral letter last week, discussing the human dignity of all persons – except, of course, when you disagree with them. Here’s one Op Ed on the topic.
A person’s human right to practice their religion is part of the Charter in Canada. But it should never result in the religious person’s beliefs infringing on the right of someone else to obtain publicly funded services.