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Once again National Organization for Marriage illustrates that marriage equality in the United States hasn’t delivered the dire consequences they’ve been predicting. Today NOM has announced a video via an email with the dire-sounding subject line, “Why We Must Not Lose at the Supreme Court”. It goes on to say:
Today I want to share with you a video reminding us how important it is that we remain active and engaged to demonstrate America’s support for marriage leading up to the Supreme Court’s consideration of this pivotal case. This new Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance video interview shows what the consequences of losing this battle could be.
Dr. Steve Tourloukis was forced to sue the government of Canada for his right as a parent to determine how to best educate his own children!
Did you get that last line? This is a legal dispute in CANADA, which last I checked is a whole different country than the United States with its own laws, government and judicial system. What happens there is not a fair predictor of what will happen here.
If this Canadian story is the best NOM can do to “prove” the alleged social evils of legalizing civil marriage for same-sex couples in the United States, with marriage equality already a reality in nine states plus Washington, D.C., then I’d say they’ve all but admitted that their dire predictions for the future of America have been wrong.
Here’s the video. And try not to laugh at the man as he keeps misspeaking about his own — I mean his kids’, yeah, his kids’ — firmly held religious convictions.
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You never know when those hosers are going to invade and take away our God-given rights to bigotry. Blame Canada!
If he wants to be the “final authority” in what his kids are learning, he needs to home school them.
Even then you can’t keep them in a bubble. Eventually they will know that gay people exist and have rights.
It’s fascinating that the guy is not claiming that his children have been harmed, or that his parental rights have been violated as of yet. He’s suing because the school refuses to preemptively grant that nothing they teach will be objectionable to him.
The simple, obvious issue for the school is that at some point, kids sharing classrooms with the Tourloukis children may mention celebrating Jewish or Muslim holidays, and competent teachers will admit to all of the students that Jewish, Muslim, Christian and other families exist side-by-side in their community. At some point, kids will mention living with their grandparents or alternating between their divorced parents’ homes.
And, scariest of all scary things to Dr. Tourloukis, his kids will get to know classmates who mention their two moms or two dads during recess, or the existence of those families will come up when kids draw pictures of their families, or treat days may bring same-sex parents into the classroom to drop off cookies or cupcakes.
The nerve of the school officials! Why can’t they promise to pre-warn Dr. Tourloukis and his wife 48 hours ahead of kids blurting out anything about their families that the Dr. doesn’t like?
More to the point, Dr. Tourloukis isn’t suing “the government of Canada.” He’s suing the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, in Ontario. In Canada, education (including policy) is in the jurisdiction of the Provincial governments. Not only has NOM gone across the border for scare stories, they can’t get the facts — uh — straight.
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/christian-father-sues-ontario-school-board-for-religious-accommodation-1.949577