I just read an article in the Globe and Mail today about Catholic schools not allowing gay-straight alliance clubs, that they want equality clubs - to fight inequality of all kinds.
Don't get me wrong, fighting all types of inequality is great! However with bullying, especially gay-bullying is being highly publicized, I think it's important that kids have a safe space. I also think it's important that kids who identify as gay, or who are struggling with their identity, or who have same sex-parents have a place where they feel connected to other people who share similar experiences to them. Furthermore, it's important to know that there are hetero people out there that will be and are their allies!
The article also mentions as a teen, they are too young to know there sexual preference. This really bugs me! I knew I would love boys/men until the day I died when I was 10 years old, fourteen years later, nothing has changed! Why can't someone know they prefer the same sex as themselves? Foolish people.
You can read the article at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/catholic-schools-dont-ask-dont-tell-policy-bad-for-gay-students/article2255606/
Good to see this. It's fascinating to me that almost no one in the media is calling out the Separate School Board on human rights violations of its youth, their actions violate several conventions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Canada and 188 other nations are signatories to.
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