Respect With Recognition? A Defence of the OCSTA’s “Respecting Difference” Policy

Abstract

Philosopher Lauren Bialystok argues that some of the ideas within Ontario’s Catholic trustees’ document entitled ‘Respecting Difference’ fail to respect homosexual Catholic schoolchildren. I argue that Bialystok’s argument is unsuccessful because she begs at least three questions.

Keywords:

• Catholicism,
• LGBT Education,
• Moral education