{"id":21477,"date":"2016-09-21T23:29:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T03:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=21477"},"modified":"2019-10-07T05:49:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:49:41","slug":"canadian-pastor-ordered-to-allow-gay-straight-alliances-at-his-christian-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/canadian-pastor-ordered-to-allow-gay-straight-alliances-at-his-christian-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Pastor Ordered to Allow Gay-Straight Alliances at His Christian Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Heather Clark<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Christian News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Coldwell-compressed-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: CNN (pictured Brian Coldwell)\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: CNN (pictured Brian Coldwell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Canadian pastor is standing firm after being ordered to allow gay-straight alliances to be formed at his Christian schools.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, on Sept. 2, Alberta Education Minister David Eggen sent a letter to Brian Coldwell, the chairman of the Independent Baptist Christian Education Society and pastor of New Testament Baptist Church, to demand that he allow the alliances at his two schools as per provincial law.<\/p>\n<p>Coldwell runs Meadows Baptist Academy and Harvest Baptist Academy in Parkland County.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Eggen sent a letter to school boards throughout the province, advising that officials must draft and submit policies by the end of March surrounding how they would accommodate homosexual and transgender students.<\/p>\n<p>But Coldwell told CBC News that he would not comply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a duty as a pastor to protect the flock of God,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd there is no way under heaven I\u2019m going to allow gay activists to come in here and basically undermine our ministries and our religious freedoms or confuse and corrupt our children.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/2016\/09\/21\/canadian-pastor-ordered-to-allow-gay-straight-alliances-at-his-christian-schools\/\">Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Heather Clark Christian News&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3544,2053,17,108,113,4114,4],"tags":[106,2932,173,2914,2939,708,1471,3389,3390,3391],"class_list":["post-21477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transgenderism","category-education-children-at-risk","category-children-at-risk","category-persecution-defending-the-faith","category-homosexuality","category-transgenderism-children-at-risk","category-defending-the-faith","tag-government","tag-homosexuality","tag-freedom","tag-children-at-risk","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-canada","tag-baptists","tag-david-eggen","tag-brian-coldwell","tag-protect-children","wpcat-3544-id","wpcat-2053-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-108-id","wpcat-113-id","wpcat-4114-id","wpcat-4-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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