You know political correctness has gone just a bit too far when a city school board starts telling a religious school what it should and shouldn’t be allowed to teach.
As Ezra Levant of The Rebel reports, that’s apparently what’s happening now in Camrose, Alberta where a school board has attempted to impose its authority over a Christian school for teaching Bible scriptures. Put simply, the school board wants to tell the school not that it shouldn’t be allowed to teach the Bible, but that the school board should be allowed to say which parts of the Bible should and should not be taught.
This is as outrageous as it sounds. Do Western countries go to Muslim nations and tell them which parts of the Koran should and should not be discussed in classes? As much as we may not like the concept of fundamentalist Islamic madrassas, that concept is essentially fascism and censorship, and it violates the very sanctity of freedom of religion and freedom of expression that Western democracies such as Canada’s were built on.
While it’s true that the Bible may or may not offend some citizens and/or students, there’s a very simple solution if you’re one of those parents or students and are hurt or insulted by its words: don’t attend the school in question or force your child to go there.
The fact of the matter is that the Bible is not just part and parcel of a religion; it’s an extremely valuable piece of literature that’s taught — in its entirety — to secular classes in both public schools and universities. So the school board’s action is simply dumbfounding on multiple levels. Watch as Levant takes this misguided administration to task for its stupefying shortsightedness.