Lifesite News reports Canada just passed a ridiculous law that now allows the government to intervene in family life if parents of children with gender identity issues don’t accept their kids’ “gender expression.”
Known as The Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act of 2017 aka Bill 89, it was overwhelmingly passed in Ontario with a 63 to 23 vote.
The new law states children’s services workers and family judges will take into consideration a child’s “race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, family diversity, disability, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression” when they determine whether or not a child will remain with their parents or foster families.
Minister of Child and Family Services, Michael Couteau, who initially introduced the bill, said he would consider parental discrimination on the basis of gender identity:
“a form of abuse when a child identifies as one way and a caregiver is saying ‘No, you need to do this differently.’ “If it’s abuse, and if it’s within the definition, a child can be removed from that environment and placed into protection where the abuse stops.”
The new bill requires a parent or legal guardian to “direct the child or young person’s education and upbringing in accordance with the child’s or young person’s creed, community identity and cultural identity.”
The Supporting Children, Youth, and Families Act of 2017 have also deleted previously established verbiage that allowed parents and guardians to raise their children under their own umbrella of faith.
Jack Fonseca who is a senior political strategist for the Campaign for Life Coalition said “with the passage of Bill 89, we’ve entered an era of totalitarian power by the state, such as never witnessed before in Canada’s history,” and that the new law is a “threat” to people of faith.
“Make no mistake,” Fonseca added. “Bill 89 is a grave threat to Christians and all people of faith who have children, or who hope to grow their family through adoption.”
Fonseca said that authorities now have the wherewithal for law enforcement to “bust down your door, and seize your biological children if you are known to oppose LGBT ideology and the fraudulent theory of ‘gender identity’, if, for instance, some claim is made that your child may be same-sex attracted or confused about their ‘gender.’”
Regarding the Christian church, Fonseca questioned, “Why has the most powerful spiritual body in this province, the Catholic hierarchy, not lifted a finger nor raised a voice to oppose this tyranny against Christian families, and those from other faiths? The lack of spiritual leadership is killing us. Every single time that Liberals, either federally or provincially, roll out the LGBT juggernaut to take away our rights, or to demonize us as bigots, we hear nothing but silence from the Church. This has to stop.”
Don’t worry, the crazy former Ontario Liberal government was trounced last month and with its demise so goes this ridiculous piece of PC trash.
But it does serve notice that politicians do make decisions and that elections do have consequences.
A law protecting Mental Health Issues?
NO government should be allowed to remove children from parents! ONLY ONLY in extreme situations as proven through court proceedings such as physical abuse. Parents are innocent till proven guilty. Too many times do gooder progressive bureaucrats push government regulations to create issues within the home.
Aside from Fruity Justin…I actually like Canadians. They’re friendly, good people. Sadly, they’re leaning as hard Left as Britain is. I don’t understand why Socialists think that taking more and more freedom is good. Well…I totally understand why the GOVERNMENTS think that the loss of personal freedom is good…but I don’t get why the Brits and Canadians aren’t FIGHTING it instead of laying down for it. Seems crazy to survive the impending tyranny of the Nazis and to (kind of) become independent of England…and then oppress your OWN people in their OWN country! It’s ludicrous!
This will backfire on the liberals, not only with voters but also with the kids. The kids will learn first hand how they’re treated by the government rather than by their parents. I expect they won’t like it after they find out. It’s called being mugged by reality.
Oh, GOODIE! It paves the way for a new law that makes it a felony to make a fuss if somebody attempts to sniff your bicycle seat.
Children are going to be ripped from their families?
Under the law a child is not competent to consent to a single sex act. But now he is competent to define his entire sexual identity. It is impossible to reconcile these two concepts.