"Imagine if a bishop said that? Imagine if a conservative said that,” said James Doak, a concerned Ottawa parent who has fought to preserve traditional values in the school system, to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN).
“Can we have a statement from the Education Secretary so he can explain what on earth he was thinking about when he allowed this person to teach again?” asked Philip Davies.
“Child-on-child sex abuse and rape is a growing problem in every culture where pornography flourishes,” Patrick Trueman of Morality in Media told LifeSiteNews.com.
Tom Flanagan, Federal Conservative Party campaign strategist and campaign manager for Alberta’s Wildrose Party told students at the University of Lethbridge Wednesday that looking at child pornography is “a question of personal liberty” and that users shouldn't be jailed.
If the charges are proven, the scandal would be the second involving child pornography to fall at the door of the Canadian bishops after the 2009 arrest of Raymond Lahey, the former bishop of Antigonish, N.S.