Religion trampled under curriculum

Re. “Standardize curriculum,” Editorial, Oct. 24

Our politicians and editorial boards have become more aggressive in promoting their versions of inclusiveness, respect and empathy, frequently wrapped in the dogma of political correctness.

Our present provincial government is pigheadedly determined to reserve to itself the power to redefine the nature of what it means to be human. That position has been blessed by the Edmonton Journal.

However, these social niceties are not extended to any person or group who justifiably challenges misguided and socially destructive ideologies. Rather than engaging the bishops in a respectful and rational dialogue regarding their philosophical and theological insights about human sexuality, the minister of education has resorted to behaviours more appropriate of a pouting teenager.

The there-is-one-curriculum-for-all mantra makes clear that the totalitarian character of political correctness is a function of a declining ability to be rationally persuasive. Truth and reason are being replaced by feelings and egocentric wants.

The result is the creation of a cultural and legislative atmosphere that compels conformity and which treads on the freedom of those who have an alternate understanding of what it means to be a fully integrated human being. It is time to end school programs that create robotic and lifeless personal relationships, and which trample on our Christian freedoms. Eugene Malo, Edmonton