As the Ontario provincial election approaches, Pro(Re)gressive Conservative Leader John Tory has come out in support of teaching creationism in religious schools… with taxpayers paying the storytellers:
Speaking to reporters at the a Jewish day school in Thornhill, Ont., on Wednesday, Mr. Tory defended his plan to bring Jewish, Islamic and other religious schools into the public education system.
“They teach evolution in the Ontario curriculum, but they also could teach the fact to the children that there are other theories that people have out there that are part of some Christian beliefs,” Mr. Tory said at the Kamin Education Centre.
If elected premier on Oct. 10, Mr. Tory has promised to give private religious schools $400-million if they opt into the public system.
“Jewish, Islamic and other religious schools”… What about the Pastafarians?
Link: “Creationism raised as Ont. election issue” - Globe and Mail
