Novus Ordo: Gay pride cruise funded by Ottawa Catholic teachers union
The
Ottawa branch of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
(OECTA) helped pay for a union event marking this past summer’s Gay
Pride Week and parade with a cruise on the Rideau River.
The Catholic Intelligence blog discovered the latest
evidence of OECTA's active promotion of the LGBT agenda. The event
listing appears on a Facebook posting by the Canadian Centre for Gender
and Sexual Diversity, advising those interested in joining the third
annual “CCGSD Labour Unions Boat Cruise” how to “Get Your Free Tickets
Now.”
Tickets are free, the event page says,
“thanks to our union sponsors (NUPGE, OC-ETFO, OECTA-Ottawa, and
ATU-279.)” OECTA-Ottawa is an acronym for the Ottawa branch of the
Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association.
The OECTA provincial leadership’s support for Toronto’s
annual Gay Pride Parade is well established. Members have marched in the
parade since 2014 despite the opposition of several Catholic school
boards, a Catholic parents group, several bishops and Cardinal Thomas
Collins, the archbishop of Toronto.
Their defiance led Cardinal Collins to decry the
“inadequate and mistaken understanding of their faith” and dismiss them
as a mere labor union.
LifeSiteNews reported in 2014 that “though it’s often
billed as ‘family friendly,’ Toronto Pride is known for its displays of
full frontal nudity, simulated sex acts, sadomasochism, and sexual
bondage.”
But OECTA’s then-president James Ryan defended the action
as one based on the teachers’ solidarity — against bullying — with their
LGBT students and colleagues, and claimed it did not imply support for
any indecency. The union’s AGM resolved to join the parade because
“registering for, and marching in, the World Pride Parade is a visible
symbol of solidarity with one of the most marginalized groups in the
Catholic community.”
Jack Fonseca of the Campaign Life Coalition called for the
Catholic bishops “to strip OECTA of the name Catholic ASAP. They also
need to find a way to either give OECTA the boot, or otherwise restrict
their activity very narrowly to contract negotiation. … The cost of
doing nothing will be the potential loss of many souls who will be lead
to reject Christian truth because of OECTA’s influence.”
The Catholic Intelligence blogger took it one step further: “Get your children away from OECTA and ‘catholic’ teachers!”
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