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Saturday, 3 October 2009

Prejudice under the cloak of religion and The Holy Mother Roman Catholic Church

Alberta Teacher Fired For Gender Change, otherwise known as Prejudice under the cloak of religion and The Holy Mother Roman Catholic Church

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 07:30 AM PDT

In early October of 2008, substitute teacher Jan Buterman was informed that he was being dropped from the teacher list and should not report to a scheduled class that day. Jan had spoken with the Deputy Superintendent at the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division No. 29 the previous June about his transition from female to male and that he would be returning to work after the summer break as Mr. Buterman -- a minor change, since he had a mostly masculine gender presentation as it was.

But in the start of October, the Archbishop of the Edmonton Diocese of the Catholic Church objected, and directed the school board to end his employment. The Archbishop felt that Jan "would create confusion and complexity with students and parents as a model and witness to Catholic faith values." This from the organization that felt that the best way to deal with pedophile priests was to give them a free ride to a faraway diocese and a get out of jail free card... and help other pedophile priests cut a deal with the victims.

I am including this posting in my blog because if / were / this to happen in the USA I highly believe that the same result would occur . . . that The Holy Mother Roman Catholic Church would stick its nose therein where it has no place to be. Reminds me of the parable of Sodom and Gomorrah.
In Alberta, Canada, the Catholic School Board is publicly funded, and therefore subject to the same standards as any government entity. Nevertheless, the Archbishop and School Division felt so strongly about the need to fire him for transition -- even though there is no quantitative reason to believe that students are in any way negatively affected by the presence of trans teachers -- that they put it in writing.

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