Anti gay group Canada Family Action Coalition is urging parents to take the Alberta School board to court as it seizes on Bill 44. The Calgary Herald
Parents must get say in all teaching, group says
Bill 44 should allow questons beyond sex, science issues, they sayThe head of a national Christian lobby group says parents, not educators, will decide when to apply new rights allowing them to pull kids from controversial classes if MLAs pass proposed changes to Alberta’s human rights laws.
The Tory government has insisted Bill 44, which was up for second reading on Wednesday, would exclusively apply to teachings of sexuality, sexual orientation and religion.
But Brian Rushfeldt, co-founder of the Calgary-based Canada Family Action Coalition, thinks the proposed human rights provision can be more widely interpreted.
“It’s up to the parent to make (the legislation) as broad or as narrow as they want,” said Rushfeldt, who welcomed the proposed changes.
“I don’t know that the schools nor the government should be the ones to put parameters on it and say it’s only sexuality classes or only evolution classes or only religion classes. That defeats the whole purpose of having parents have rights, because someone else is making the decision.”
Parental rights are already legislated. Slap upside the head looks at how groups such as The Family Action Coalition have operated. The group has called to have HRC’s disbanded. Ken Chapman also looks at the flaws in Bill 44 as does Religious Right Alert.
Rushfeldt had a Letter to the Editor published in today’s Calgary Herald.
It’s pure irony:
It is dangerous for a law to set up categories of people against each other. It violates the notion of equality in our Charter.
Coming from a man who has made a career out of pitting himself against others, that’s quite a funny statement.