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Tuesday April 11, 2006
Brokeback Lesson Plans for Canadian Schoolchildren
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By Terry Vanderheyden
VANCOUVER, April 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A grade three teacher in BC has developed a lesson plan ostensibly to teach schoolchildren “tolerance,” encouraging the message that same-sex attraction is healthy and normal, as depicted in the homosexual cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain.
James Chamberlain, notorious for taking the Surrey School Board to the province’s Supreme Court so he could incorporate same-sex story books like ‘One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dads, Blue Dads’ into his kindergarten curriculum (see http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/dec/02122004.html), encourages teachers to first take their classes to see the film.
“It is teaching youth to be tolerant and accepting of one another’s differences,” Chamberlain claims, according to a Vancouver Province report.
The lesson plan, posted at the BC Teachers Federation website (http://www.bctf.ca/social/homophobia/resources/BrokebackMountainLessonPlan.html), has as an intended goal, “To encourage student’s personal choices in making the world more accepting of LGBT people.”
BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils President Kim Howland told the Province she hopes that parents are given the opportunity to voice concerns before a teacher introduces the curriculum.
“Sometimes the issue has been for parents that they are not aware that it is being taught or going to be shown until after it has happened,” she said. “So for parents, the challenge has been where do the rights and responsibility of the parent override the teacher’s right to professional autonomy.”
In Canada, the film was judged suitable for viewing by persons 14 years of age and even for younger children when accompanied by an adult, although it has been banned as unsuitable for anyone in many countries or restricted to adults 18 or older in many others.
The fact that Brokeback Mountain is a propaganda film to normalize homosexuality has been attested to by even the secular media, but has also been analyzed as such by an expert in the field.
Dr. R. Winfield, in an article on the controversial film writes, “Having studied propaganda and its effects on societies for over 50 years, I can state unequivocally that the film Brokeback Mountain is one of the most blatant propaganda pieces of recent times.”
Winfield’s must-read analysis of the film points out that scenery, music and lighting were all expertly utilized in the film to create a “most effective” piece of propaganda which “comes in under the radar, it's innocuous and appeals to our humanity and emotions.” (see the full analysis: http://www.rense.com/general69/prop.htm)
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Supreme Court To Hear Case On Homosexual Books In Elementary Grades
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/oct/01101002.html
Bishops, Tourism, Sour Grapes and All Things Brokeback
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031601.html
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