Pentecostals are the core of the loony fundie right wing in Canada. Stockwell Day, former leader of the loony fundie right-wing party (first Reform, then Alliance, now Conservative Party), comes out of that.
This article, about him and the loony fundie right wing in Alberta generally (a small town in particular), is very instructive reading -- and very entertaining, for those who enjoy a good tale of loony fundie right-wing nuttery:
"Bentley, Alberta: Hellfire, Neo-Nazis and Stockwell Day
A two-part look inside the little town that nurtured a
would-be prime minister - and some of the most notorious
hate-mongers in Canada"
http://www.straightgoods.com/item313.shtmlPart 1: Day's roots in the religious right
http://www.straightgoods.com/item317.shtmlPart 2: The Neo-Nazi connection
They have schools, and specifically the "School of Tomorrow" (ask google) curriculum out of Texas. That curriculum was taught at Day's outfit's school in Alberta. Here's what a government investigator had to say about it (very long article; this is a minor excerpt; emphasis added):
Alberta senator Ron Ghitter headed the 18-month commission on schooling in the wake of the Keegstra affair. His report raised serious questions about the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE), a curriculum imported by the Centre from the Texas-based School of Tomorrow and a rigid set of prescriptions for fundamentalist teaching on scripture and creation science.
"ACE schools were schools of dogma," says Ghitter, a former cabinet minister. "They didn't follow official curriculum and the kids who came out had sort of a twisted Christianity with anti-Semitic overtones."
Ghitter recalls one telling incident in a Red Deer Christian school where he discovered an ACE book that argued "all kinds of Buddhists and Muslims are evil." He took the book to the principal, who promptly denied knowing anything about the literature, saying that it was an old book. Ghitter checked the cover: it was new.
"It's repulsive that people would be teaching this material," he explains. "But in certain pockets of central Alberta - Eckville, Bentley, Red Deer - they're good people but they sometimes take the position that their religion is right and others are inferior."
... But there was more to the ACE material than just Bible teaching. Social studies lessons warned students that democratic governments "represent the ultimate deification of man, which is the very essence of humanism and totally alien to God's word."
Science lessons taught pure creationism, noting that all evolutionists were guilty of "depravity and sinfulness."
In other words, the ACE material that Day so passionately defended sometimes took an extreme and dismissive view on secular society - a position that was radical even for religious private schooling.
Be afraid. I don't know about down there, but there are places up here where they are definitely problematic.
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