CALGARY, Alberta, December 4, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Over two dozen religious schools in Alberta continue to fight for their right to not allow “gay-straight alliance” (GSA) clubs, six months after being blocked by an Alberta judge.
Bill 24, or “An Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances,” requires independent religious schools permit the creation of GSAs if requested by a student, and forbids schools from informing parents when their children join one, unless the child consents to his or her parents knowing.
Represented by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), 26 schools of Christian, Jewish, and Sikh faiths challenged the mandates on constitutional grounds. But in June, Justice Johanna Kubik of the Alberta Court of the Queen’s Bench in Medicine Hat rejected their bid to block the measure, claiming “the public interest in promoting basic equality for staff and students of institutions supported by public funding would not be served by staying the provisions.”
Now JCCF has taken their case to the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary, the Calgary Sun reports.
“There is a problem with the School Act because it restricts information to parents,” JCCF attorney Jay Cameron told the court. “Parents’ rights and children’s rights are harmonious to
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Christian Journal or its editors