Let me get this straight. You have to teach kids the facts about anal sex and a proper bj, but don’t dare give them the facts about the Easter bunny.
To his credit, Justice Andrew Goodman kept a straight face throughout the hearing as the lawyer for the Hamilton CAS struggled to explain why the agency suddenly yanked two little girls from their happy foster home just because their devout Christian foster parents wouldn’t lie and tell them Santa and the Easter Bunny were real.
The children — aged four and three at the time — faced the imminent danger that the “magic” of the holidays might be destroyed if they were left with Derek and Frances Baars, argued lawyer Jim Wood.
“They’re entitled to believe that while they’re sleeping, Santa Claus is coming to put the presents under the tree,” he insisted. “The risk is there. The children needed to be removed.”
The Baars were upfront when they signed on: They don’t celebrate Halloween and, as their glowing SAFE Homestudy Report clearly states, they “do not endorse Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny as they do not wish to lie to children.”
They were approved as foster parents in December 2015 and the sisters moved into their home a week before Christmas.
The Baars bought them gifts and celebrated the holiday — but carefully avoided the Santa question. Their birth mother even sent a note thanking them for giving her girls such a nice Christmas.
[…]Their CAS worker was hopping mad by their hearsay, told them it was an essential part of Canadian culture and issued an ultimatum: Tell the girls the Easter Bunny was real or their foster home would be closed.
h/t O Canada!
Aha! Focusing on the Theological aspects………. Canada has gone insane.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Of course the agency won’t care if the girls are sent to a home where they don’t get presents or love etc., as long as they get to believe in Santa Claus.
People have gone mad.
Wait a minute. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny aren’t real? That’s just stupid on stilts. Who has been eating all those cookies and drinking all that milk?
Next thing you know you’ll be telling that I can’t choose my gender and race. Because that’s real, too, ya know.
This is slightly OT, I know, but here’s some similar insanity that Mike Pence is having to put up with:
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/12/30/make-america-gay-again-banner-welcomes-mike-pence-outside-his-vacation-home/23320274/
Will a pair of muslim foster parents support the idea of Santa and the Easter bunny?
Is it actually written into Canadian law that you have a support Santa Claus and East Berry? How about the tooth fairy? The amalgamated tooth fairies would definitely have a legitimate grievance!!
Next thing you know they will say Obama isn’t real.
The next time a politician like Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren claims something is “for the children,” remember this story. Because it’s never “for the children.”
@mr Hanover fist. If only. Satan and Obama and Soros are very real.
Santa may not be real, but the grinch sure is
Yep, Hillary agrees, it takes a village to raise a child.
No one knows better how to raise a child than the government.
Parents are ancillary to the will of government.
☝️☝️☝️Cato nailed it. Canada has adopted western European Progressive doctrine. The US is still just a flirt, but getting closer to losing her cherry.
I don’t believe in Justin Trudeau.
How do Jehova’s Witnesses adopt kids?
@F4UCorsair,
“Will a pair of muslim foster parents support the idea of Santa and the Easter bunny?”
As long as they embrace the fat man and bunny……. No theology.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
what’s their position on Disney movies? … My Little Pony? … SpongeBob?
Is teaching Jihad to kids in Ontario acceptable?
A rat-faced lawyer telling us someone is “entitled” to something is how all this bullshit got started.