Catholic schools balance gay-straight alliance clubs wh beliefs | Natnal Catholic Reporter

Contents:

• 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC AND STUNT ACTIVISM ONTAR PUBLIC SECULAR AND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: MAKG ONTAR SCHOOLS SAFE AND INCLIVE
• GAY-STRAIGHT/GENRS & SEXUALI ALLIANC
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC STARTG UP ONTAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
• ONTAR GVMT TO MANDATE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS APPROVED ONTAR SCHOOLS
• ONTAR ULD IMPOSE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
• STUNTS ULD LL GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE A 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' UNR NEW ONTAR LEGISLATN
• CATHOLIC SCHOOLS BALANCE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS WH BELIEFS

'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR

Ontar policians are batg legislatn on bullyg schools, while the provce's Catholic bishops object to g the name "gay-straight alliance.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC AND STUNT ACTIVISM ONTAR PUBLIC SECULAR AND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS

What they object to is that Bill 13, the acceptg schools act, giv "particular emphasis" to "LGBTTIQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred, transsexual, two-spired, tersexed, queer and qutng) people.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: MAKG ONTAR SCHOOLS SAFE AND INCLIVE

" They also oppose a particular clse that would enable stunts to ll anti-bullyg groups they form at school a "gay-straight alliance. Protters outsi a high school Flour Bluff, Texas, on March 4, 2011, support a senr at the school, after she was nied permissn to start a gay-straight alliance club. A 2011 study fund by Egale Canada Human Rights Tst, a gay rights advocy group, found that "20.

Stunts support GSAsThere is also strong support for gay-straight allianc om stunts both public and Catholic schools a 2011 survey of over 7, 000 stunts for the Ontar Stunt Tste' Associatn, 88 per cent agreed, "that a stunt wantg to tablish a Gay Straight Alliance club their school should be allowed to do so.

GAY-STRAIGHT/GENRS & SEXUALI ALLIANC

Found bullyg of sexual mory stunts is ls mon schools that have an anti-homophobia policy and/or have a gay-straight a May 28 terview wh CBC Rad's Matt Galloway, Ontar Edutn Mister Lrel Broten fend her new amendments.

"To many of our stunts, we know that the term gay-straight alliance has great meang and that words matter and that if you n't name somethg, you n't addrs , " she Squire, chair of the London District Catholic School Board, told CBC Rad's Wei Chen that "no stunt has e forward and said they want a gay-straight alliance. 'We are all sners'Thomas Cardal Colls, archbishop of Toronto, oppos an Ontar ernment bill that would allow stunts any school to form groups lled gay-straight allianc.

(Alsandro Bianchi/Rters)The Toronto archbishop views GSAs as "a particular method of addrsg one form of bullyg, and providg personal support" and a mol closely related to the gay his May 28 prs nference, Colls asked, "Why are Catholics and Catholic schools not ee to atta the same goal, of love and rpect for everybody, not allowed to atta the same goals their own different ways? "She poted to the example of Newfoundland and Labrador, which she se as "way ahead" of Ontar and the rt of Canada alg specifilly wh anti-gay bullyg.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC STARTG UP ONTAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Gay Straight Alliance For Safe Schools (GSAFE). Gay-straight allianc (GSAs) have bee wispread Ontar schools and, startg 2012, all schools are required to perm stunts to form GSAs. This study, based on a survey of 30 tors workg wh GSAs, suggts that policy chang Ontar have had a posive impact on school climate for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) stunts, and that GSAs ntribute to the velopment of safer and more clive schools.

Gay-Straight Allianc or Genrs and Sexuali Allianc have been associated wh improvements school safety, a key ponent of school nnectedns, for all stunts. Rearch specifilly lks the prence of Gay-Straight Allianc or Genrs and Sexuali Allianc (GSAs) to greater feelgs of school nnectedns among Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Qutng (LGBTQ) stunts. Gay-Straight Allianc.

Gay-Straight allianc are associated wh lower levels of school-based victimizatn of LGBTQ+ youth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. LGBTQ youth’s views on gay-straight allianc: buildg muny, providg gateways, and reprentg safety and support. School nnectedns for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr youth: -school victimizatn and stutnal supports.

ONTAR GVMT TO MANDATE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Promotg youth agency through dimensns of gay-straight alliance volvement and ndns that maximize associatns. Contextualizg gay-straight allianc: stunt, advisor, and stctural factors related to posive youth velopment among members.

Rcg risk for illic dg e and prcriptn dg mise: high school gay-straight allianc and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth.

TORONTO, June 11, 2012 () – Teachers at elementary schools across Ontar are beg enuraged to start up gay straight allianc to ter to children even the earlit gras, reports the Toronto Star. The day before the passage of the McGuty ernment’s ntroversial homosexual “rights” Bill 13 that forc homosexual activist clubs on all the provce’s schools, the Star reported that a teacher at Toronto’s Wtwood Middle School, Natasha Garda, started a GSA last year.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Acrdg to the paper, members of Garda’s elementary school gay-straight alliance “recently ran workshops for lol Gra 5 stunts about genr stereotyp and homophobia, ” durg which “Wtwood stunts prented a sk about genr stereotyp which a boy is teased for wearg a pk shirt, and helped the younger stunts fd stereotyp magaz and classic fairy tal. “Jt as all teachers are expected to stand up agast racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimatn, so too mt they stand up and protect stunts om homophobia and transphobia, ” said ETFO Print Sam Hammond. “We’re pleased that neher a board nor prcipal may prevent stunts om g the name ‘gay-straight alliance’ if they wish to start such a stunt anizatn.

“Kids who perhaps should be playg ball the schoolyard and learng nocently are stead havg sexualized theori and the ia of beg gay placed their mds, ” rpond Jack Fonse of Campaign Life Catholics. The Star reported that Natasha Garda offered how-to rmatn on startg homosexual clubs their schools at this symposium to some 50 lleagu om across the provce. Wtwood prcipal Helen Fisher told the Star that she plans to offer help to nearby middle schools to start their own GSAs, remarkg that followg a school-wi “anti-homophobia” assembly last fall at Wtwood, children were heard by teachers “hurlg anti-gay sults the schoolyard.

GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS APPROVED ONTAR SCHOOLS

Fonse noted that wh Ontar’s Catholic bishops havg allowed GSAs to be tablished all Catholic schools the provce unr the mandate of Bill 13, there is nothg to stop the goals of the homosexualist movement om beg implemented Catholic elementary schools as well. “The absence of a rtrictn to high school for the applitn of Bill 13 means that GSAs and the sexualized curriculum chang that Bill 13 will brg about n be brought by stunts themselv or teachers who support the goals of the homosexualist movement, ” Fonse told LifeSeNews. TORONTO, Ontar, December 1st, 2011 () – All of Ontar’s Catholic and public schools will be required to set up gay-straight allianc if stunts requt them, Ontar’s tn mister said Thursday as Dalton McGuty’s Liberal ernment unveiled s new bill to crack down on homosexual bullyg.

ONTAR ULD IMPOSE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

Edutn Mister Lrel Broten told Xtra that there is “no more bate” on gay-straight allianc.

“‘Gay-straight alliance’ is language and termology we all unrstand and support.

While the bishops have agreed to set up the homosexual “anti-bullyg” clubs prevly mandated by McGuty’s ernment, they drew a le the sand over gay-straight allianc (GSAs). Surh Domic of Campaign Life Catholics said the bill’s purpose is to “force Catholic schools to allow the celebratn of homosexualy. Rather, Bill 13 is about forcg Catholic schools to allow the celebratn of homosexualy.

STUNTS ULD LL GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE A 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' UNR NEW ONTAR LEGISLATN

“Y, we’re gog to require that, at every school where stunts requt that this be put place, they be permted to anize themselv wh a gay-straight alliance, ” he said. Though treats bullyg general, the ernment has laid a clear emphasis on homosexualy-related bullyg wh McGuty releasg yterday a vio as part of the “It Gets Better” homosexual mpaign. The bill would require schools to support stunts who want to “tablish and lead … anizatns wh the name gay-straight alliance or another name.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS BALANCE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS WH BELIEFS

The mpaign for GSAs the Catholic schools began January 2011 when homosexual activists targeted the Halton Catholic District School Board over a pro-fay equy policy that sought to uphold Catholic teachg the area of homosexualy, cludg a ban on GSAs.