Last Tuesday evening, an “emergency meeting” was convened at the Mississauga, Ont.-based Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. Gracious! That sounds serious.
What had occurred in the Dufferin County and Peel Region to prompt such an emergency meeting? A mass shooting at a school? A school being destroyed by arson? No and no. The meeting was all about ramrodding through a proposal to raise the so-called Pride flag. Yes: at Catholic schools.
Some “ emergency ”. Needless to say, the ideology of the rainbow flag runs contrary to Catholic faith and doctrine. But even at a Catholic school board it would appear there are those who are pursuing a woke radicalized LGBT agenda.
Indeed, even Catholic school boards are being “colonized” these days. But common decency and family values prevailed. The proposal to display Pride flags was defeated by a vote of 6-3.
According to Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), the vote was a “remarkable turn of events.” CLC notes trustees had previously voted 9-2 at the committee level in favour of flying the Pride flag. But that’s when CLC and other pro-family groups became involved, encouraging parents to lobby their trustees to vote against this motion.
Indeed, an overflow crowd of vocal parents and ratepayers packed the DPCDSB headquarters on Tuesday making it standing room only. Campaign Life Coalition further notes that through the leadership of trustees Paula Dametto-Giovannozzi and Herman Viloria, along with five pro-family de.