Jonathan Kay wrote an excellent article today, January 25, about the assault on Christian ethics in schools.
We call ourselves open and tolerant and inclusive-except we are not open to the teachings of Jesus.
We have schools that reach out to Natives and their religious beliefs, to black Canadians and school for Jews and Muslims. But there is panic about a law school that wished to hold to the morals and values they believe came to them from Jesus and then Paul.
Somehow it is against all freedoms to have a school that wants its students to refrain from sex before marriage. It seems the biggest crime today, is refusing to condone sex before marriage! This school may have a different attitude toward homosexuality than most. But I did not see anywhere in the literature, that gays and lesbians cannot attend the school. There is no discrimination against anyone.
Will everyone feel welcome? I doubt it. But then when young people pick a university there are many at which they don’t feel at home-too big, too small, not enough sports. When I returned to university on the 1990’s I could have gone back to the University of Toronto from where I had graduated in 1972. But I chose a small campus. It felt better.
It has come to pass, that belief in the Ten Commandments goes against the core values of Canada. When did that happen? More than that, our laws come from Leviticus-regarding business and ethics, establishing a court system.
There are professors of law who are aghast at the possibility that Trinity Western University can teach its students the law through a pre-determined lens. As if the “progressive” schools don’t have a pre-determined lens. One can be a critical thinker and believe in the teachings of the Bible. They are not mutually exclusive.
Arun Smith, the latest 15 minute famer who destroyed the “free speech” wall at Carleton University decided for all that one cannot believe in traditional marriage or be opposed to abortion. I suppose his lens isn’t at all pre-determined?
