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CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DEFUNDED OVER BIBLE VERSES!

Government: Can't share 'teachings that denigrate or vilify someone's sexual orientation'

A Christian school in Alberta, Canada, is learning the perils of depending on public funding for its operation.

Cornerstone Christian Academy and Battle River School Division have enjoyed a nine-year cooperative arrangement where the Christian school is operated as an alternative public school, providing nondenominational Christian instruction. BRSD leased facilities to the school and provided instructional resources available to other public schools. Thanks to the partnership, student tuition was lower than private Christian schooling, with fees going primarily to cover facility costs and bus transportation.

But that has come to an end in a dispute over the school’s use of two biblical passages that BRSD board members contend “denigrate” and “vilify” LGBT individuals.

• Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. – 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

• Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. – Galatians 5:19-24

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Cornerstone Chairwoman Deanna Margel said school staff were told by email the passages from the letters of St. Paul “should not be read or studied.” She called the directive “shocking,” reported the London Express.

“We’re talking about freedom of religion, but we’re also talking about freedom of expression. We need every single word there [from the Bible] to challenge us, to call us to greater understanding. It’s just so important.”

A spokesman with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedom, a legal group representing Cornerstone, said BRSD’s funding-body members “have no right to impose their own ideology on schools they disagree with.”

Earlier this year, Cornerstone removed the Corinthians passage from its website at the request of BRSD, but planned to include it and the Galatians passage in the student handbook.

BRSD sent the email following last month’s change in legislation adding “gender expression” and “gender identity” to Canada’s Human Rights Code and to the Criminal Code’s hate-crime section.

A BRSD spokesman said trustees believed the verses might contravene Alberta’s human-rights legislation.

BRSD chairwoman Lauri Skori called it inappropriate to share “any teachings that denigrate or vilify someone’s sexual orientation.”

“As a public-school board we must ensure that any educational programming provided complies with board policy and procedure, provincial legislation including the Alberta Human Rights Act and the School Act,” the board told Margel.

“Unless those concerns can be resolved, we are unable to maintain the current relationship,” it added.

That “current relationship” was terminated at a special meeting last week by BRSD trustees who voted to cut ties with the Christian academy.

In the give and take, Margel agreed to drop the contentious passages from the student handbook, but she expressed concern the trustees would next dictate what could be taught in the classroom. Reassurance there was no intent to censor Bible teaching was accompanied by the board’s stipulation that joint discussions be kept confidential. The academy could not agree, with the JCCF spokesman describing the demand as amounting to a “gag order,” reported Christian Times.

“It seems unwise, and completely unnecessary, to throw away years of productive co-operation in mere weeks because we’ve simply hit an unusual bump in the road. Things just don’t add up,” said Margel.

Due to a 365-day termination “transition period” in the master agreement, BRSD and Cornerstone will continue their current relationship until June 30, 2018.

http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/christian-school-defunded-over-bible-verses/

My comments: The BRSD is taking a Stand against God and His Word, under the Pretext of, so called, Human Rights. Canada, as well as most Western Nations, have adopted the Religion of godless, Socialist, Secular Humanism, which is a Religion Opposed to God and His Word. And they are Forcing this Religion on their entire Nation, by Law. They are making Sodomy and Homosexualtity, Sacred. This Opposition to God Almighty will ultimately bring their Demise. In the U.S. the Supremely Evil Court has Sanctioned Abortion and Same-Sex Marriage, both of which are Anathema to God and His Word.