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January 26, 2012

Toronto Star: Gay-straight alliances become Respecting Differences clubs

by Louise Brown
The Toronto Star

For eight months, a small Catholic think tank tackled one of the most delicate balancing acts in Ontario education: What to call the anti-homophobia clubs that Ontario schools must now allow — without calling them gay-straight alliances and offending the Vatican?

While common in public high schools, “gay-straight alliances” were seen as too politicized for a system whose faith disapproves of the homosexual act. 

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