Editorial by Ron Gray
CHILLIWACK, BC, Jan. 18, 2018 (CultureGuard) — The radical union rent-a-mob was out in force for the first Chilliwack School Board meeting of 2018, Tuesday night.
Fraser Valley News Network estimated the crowd at about 150, many bearing signs critical of Trustee Barry Neufeld, who has raised objections to the SOGI-123 social experiment being forced on BC schools. Another trustee who is believed to be sympathetic to Neufled’s objections, was reportedly in hospital and missed the meeting.
The SOGI-123 package of classroom teaching resources, which introduce pro-transsexual and pro-homosexual themes into almost every subject matter at every grade level from Kindergarten to Grade 12, was surreptitiously introduced by the provincial Ministry of Education, aided and abetted by the BC Teachers’ Federation without adequate information to local school boards.
Trustee Neufeld has warned that SOGI-123 may be harmful to students in three ways:
• It uses recognized brainwashing techniques to manipulate students’ attitudes towards LGBTQ2S++ ;
• It affirms youngsters with Gender Dysphoria (which used to be called “Gender Identity Disorder”) in the delusion that they may be of a different gender than their DNA indicates;
• It can be taken to endorse radical medical interventions (including the use of pharmaceuticals off-label—i.e., for purposes for which they have not been approved) that could be harmful to children: puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone ‘therapy’, and surgery that removes perfectly healthy body parts.
Neufeld was accused by the bused-in picketers of making ‘hateful’ statements about transgender and homosexual persons; but no such statements are anywhere on his record. His criticisms have all been of politicians and union bosses for pushing radical cultural changes through manipulation of the attitudes and ideas of impressionable students.
CUPE local 411, which represents inside workers, not teachers, has filed a human rights complaint Human Rights Tribunal, alleging that people with beliefs such as Neufeld’s (i.e., conservative Christians, Jews, Sikhs and Muslims) foster an “unsafe workplace environment.” Chilliwack School Board Chairman Paul McManus said that complaint, and whatever sanctions and fines that could come from it, are “not up for discussion with the media”, because the issue is now with the School Board’s legal council.
CUPE picketers were supported by a few members of the BC Nurses’ union, BCGEU and one Canada Post worker who said he didn’t want to be identified. Also in the crowd were UFV employees.
At the end of the meeting, Joy TV/700 Club host and CultureGuard speaker Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson asked the Board to hear two students’ questions about SOGI-123. But Chairman McManus stated that the question period was for Agenda items only.
Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson was verbally attacked by SOGI supporters when she tried to introduce students’ concerns—see video at:
https://www.facebook.com/lauralynn.t.thompson/videos/10156154457089319/
The 2.5 hour FVN video for the Chilliwack School District Board Meeting of January 16, 2018 can be seen at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PtDOMGgQKw
FVN’s 90-second report is at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=MI0ODwv9aAQ
