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BY LifeSiteNews.com By Terry Vanderheyden VANCOUVER, March 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia public Teachers’ Federation has urged that the province stop financing independent faith-based schools, arguing that the institutions teach religious intolerance. Approximately 700 teachers attending their annual meeting voted to pass the resolution. “All we’re saying is that the provincial government has to enact what it says it will do through the Independent Schools Act,” said resolution sponsor, Vancouver teacher Jane MacEwan, according to a Focus on the Family news report. “And it clearly states that schools teaching religious superiority or racial superiority cannot receive [public] funding.”The Independent Schools Act prohibits funding for schools that promote racial supremacy, religious intolerance, or violence as a means to effect social change. The teacher’s resolution was originally intended to target a polygamous sect in the Bountiful, BC, region, but the resolution adopted took on a much broader scope that could be applied to all independent religious schools.ÂContact BC Education Minister Shirley Bond:http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/mla/38thParl/bond.htmContact BC Premier Gordon Campbell:http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/mla/38thParl/campbell.htm http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bc-teachers-union-urges-province-defund-faith-based-schools-teaching-religi/

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