Parent group urges Ontario Catholic school trustees to defy law supporting gay clubs

Ontario Catholic school trustees should commit civil disobedience by refusing to obey a new provincial law that would allow gay-straight alliance clubs in separate schools, a lobby group for Catholic parents says. “A legal opinion we obtained argues Catholic trustees are obliged to refuse to implement gay-straight alliances [GSAs] in Catholic schools,” Teresa Pierre, head of Parents As First Educators, said at a news conference Thursday in Toronto. “Trustees have the legal right to avoid anything that would undermine the school’s religious character...