Apparently Walt wasn't the only one who noticed that "educator" Benjamin Levin, charged with possessing and making kiddy porn, likely had a hand in shaping Ontario's new LGBT-promoting sex education policy.
The Toronto Sun's venerable muckraker, Christina Blizzard, today poses what she calls "Disturbing questions about sex education policy". So bang on is her piece that Walt will quote at length.
"Levin walked with [Kathleen] Wynne [Ontario's proud lesbian premier], former federal Liberal leader Bob Rae and current leader Justin Trudeau at the recent Gay Pride Parade, so [he] is a person with political connections. [This raises] disturbing questions...about the way education policy is formulated and who has input.
"Remember the uproar in 2010 over the new sex-education curriculum? It was slammed — not just by the religious right, as some would have you believe, but by average parents — for being overly graphic in its nature and not age-appropriate. This curriculum was developed at a time when Levin was a deputy minister [of education]....
"I do understand that curriculum is developed in consultation with a number of groups. Wynne's office and the education ministry were quick to tell me Tuesday that police, mental health agencies and others were all part of the development of the new curriculum. I'm sure they all gave their input — as did groups such as Queer Nation. It's also true, though, that the deputy minister would have input into which groups were "consulted."
"For anyone to suggest this was not a political process is nonsense. Who cancelled the new curriculum? It was former premier Dalton McGuinty, because parent outrage became a political liability for him. Wynne was education minister at the time.
"The curriculum aimed to teach 11-year-olds about oral and anal sex, and 8-year-olds about sexual orientation and identity. One teacher "prompt" suggests how the teacher might discuss "erections, wet dreams and vaginal lubrication," as normal things that happen with puberty. Ironically, we were told kids need to know this stuff at an early age "because they can find it on the Internet."
"The big question now is, who put it there?"
Who, indeed? Benjamin Levin, 61, now faces charges of possessing child pornography and accessing child pornography following a raid on his Toronto home on Monday. The nutty professor was earlier charged with two counts of distributing child pornography and one count each of making child pornography, counselling to commit an indictable offence and agreeing to or arranging for a sexual offence against a child under 16. This afternoon he was freed on bail.
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