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TORONTO, February 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Ontario’s graphic sex ed curriculum has become an unavoidable topic in the ongoing Progressive Conservative leadership race after the entry of pro-family advocate Tanya Granic Allen.

“We’re seeing with Tanya’s candidacy that her opponents have been forced to take a stand on the Liberal sex-ed curriculum, and that it’s become a key election issue,” Campaign Life Coalition senior political strategist Jack Fonseca told LifeSiteNews.  

Fonseca lauded Doug Ford for slamming the sex-ed program earlier this week as “Liberal ideology,”and vowing to reopen the issue if elected leader of the PC Party.

“The way the sex-ed curriculum was rolled out was completely unacceptable,” Ford said at a Toronto press conference Monday.

“The sex education should be about facts, not Liberal ideology. Parents should have first and final say on what they want to teach their kids past this point.”

Ford also denounced the PC Party under former leader Patrick Brown for refusing to “to even consult” party members and for having “stonewalled debate” by forbidding discussion of the topic during policy development.

“This is unacceptable,” he said.

Fonseca said this was Ford’s “strongest statement yet” against the sex-ed curriculum, which Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government rolled out in all Ontario’s publicly funded schools in September 2015, despite huge parental outcry.

Critics of the program say it prematurely sexualizes children and destroys their innocence by introducing homosexuality and “gender identity” in Grade 3, masturbation in Grade 6, and oral and anal sex in Grade 7. It teaches students there are six genders rather than two biological sexes.

Ford, a well-known former city councillor, is one of four contestants in the race, along with Granic Allen, Christine Elliott, and Caroline Mulroney.

Brown resigned January 25 amid allegations of sexual misconduct, leaving the party scrambling for a leader just four months before the June 7 provincial election.

The former leader was endorsed by Campaign Life in his 2015 leadership bid based on his impeccable pro-life record as a federal MP for Barrie. But once elected, Brown infamously flip-flopped on sex-ed, supporting it after saying he would scrap it. He also warned social conservatives in December 2016 they weren’t welcome in his party.

Granic Allen, a 37-year-old mother of four and president of parents’ rights group Parents As First Educators (PAFE), which has been at the forefront of the battle against sex-ed, entered the race to be a voice for social conservatives.

Now sex-ed is an issue with some political clout, with candidate Elliott responding to Ford’s announcement by tweeting:

Elliott said at last weekend’s Manning Conference in Ottawa her position is the same as it was when she ran against Brown in 2015, in that she doesn’t oppose the curriculum but says the Liberals should have consulted parents more, according to the CBC.

“I would open the curriculum up again, listen to what parents have to say,” Elliott said as quoted by the CBC. “If there are changes that need to be made, I would be happy to make those changes.”

But CLC’s Fonseca noted that in her last leadership run, Elliott “labelled social conservatives as public enemy No. 1, and made it clear she was the candidate who would ensure they had no influence in the PC Party.”  

And she defended the sex-ed curriculum in a TVO debate then with Brown, telling host Steve Paikin: “I think that Patrick represents the constituency that I am concerned about. That is, the social conservative group within the party would take over … I just don’t think we will win if we go out with that kind of a position in the next campaign.”

Moreover, as MPP, Elliott co-sponsored NDP private member’s Bill 33, that gave biological males the legal “right” to access girls washrooms, change rooms and showers, Fonseca pointed out.

“Faced with two different Christine Elliotts – each one telling a contradictory story —  I choose to believe the 2015 version,” he told LifeSiteNews.  

“And given she sponsored legislation to enshrine the theories of gender fluidity, gender identity and gender expression in law, I find it hard to swallow that she’ll make any serious changes to a sex curriculum that aggressively pushes those ideologies, which are obviously so important to her.”

Campaign Life Coalition’s rating profile for Elliott is found here.

As for Mulroney, Fonseca described her as “an ultra-liberal who has already said she will not change Kathleen Wynne’s radical sex program.”  

Campaign Life Coalition is endorsing Granic Allen for PC Party leader.

Granic Allen registered as an official candidate with Elections Ontario Wednesday, and is “over halfway there” in raising the balance of the $100,000 entry fee required by the party by this Friday, February 16.

The deadline to buy PC Party memberships to be eligible to vote for the next leader is also Friday, February 16, up to 11:59 p.m. for online memberships.

Party members will vote online for a new leader March 2 to 8, with the result announced March 10.

Campaign Life is urging Ontarians to buy PC Party memberships, here, and donate to Granic Allen’s campaign, here.