Story out of Calgary, Alberta:
Calgary's Roman Catholic bishop has denounced as "totalitarian" and "anti-Catholic" the province's new guidelines for respecting students' gender identity.
"This approach and directive smack of the madness of relativism and the forceful imposition of a particular narrow-minded anti-Catholic ideology," Bishop Fred Henry wrote in a blog post on the website of the Catholic diocese of Calgary.
"Such a totalitarian approach is not in accordance with [Canadian law] and must be rejected," he added, in a post titled "Totalitarianism in Alberta."
The bishop writes: "[The guidelines] show no evidence of consultation with or sensitivity to the Catholic community. They breathe pure secularism."
The Catholic Church, the bishop said, espouses a "rather simple" teaching that God created beings as male and female and that "men and women should respect and accept their sexual identity."
School boards have been given until the end of March to approve their own policies, which must conform with the provincial guidelines. Cont.
Story from - CBC News
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