{"id":265033,"date":"2023-02-13T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265033"},"modified":"2023-02-15T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:44:45","slug":"catholic-student-suspended-arrested-in-canada-for-saying-god-created-only-two-genders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265033","title":{"rendered":"Catholic student suspended, arrested in Canada for saying God created only two genders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PressTV \u2013 Feb 13, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>A Catholic high school student in Canada has been first suspended and then arrested for supporting gender binarism, according to media reports.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Josh Alexander was suspended this week from St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ontario, for protesting against transgender people&#8217;s use of bathrooms and saying that God created only two genders, <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lilley-catholic-high-school-student-suspended-then-arrested-for-saying-there-are-only-two-genders\">the Toronto Sun reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The leadership of the school told Alexander that his continued attendance would be &#8220;detrimental to the physical and mental well-being&#8221; of transgender students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expressed my religious beliefs in class and it spiraled out of control,\u201d Alexander told The Epoch Times in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager tweeted that Ontario police arrested and charged him after he attempted to attend class in violation of an exclusion order following his suspension from the school.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have just been arrested and charged at my Catholic highschool for attending class after being excluded for indicating my intent to adhere to my religious beliefs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vTkaSoTnFp\">pic.twitter.com\/vTkaSoTnFp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Alexander (@officialJosh_A) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialJosh_A\/status\/1622640513919897600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Offense is obviously defined by the offended,&#8221; Alexander told the Epoch Times. &#8220;I expressed my religious beliefs in class and it spiraled out of control. Not everybody\u2019s going to like that. That doesn\u2019t make me a bully. It doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m harassing anybody. They express their beliefs and I express mine. Mine obviously don\u2019t fit the narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alexander&#8217;s lawyer, James Kitchen has alleged religious discrimination, and is bringing the matter to an Ontario human rights tribunal. \u00a0He said the school has accused his client of &#8220;bullying&#8221; transgender students.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An Ontario student at a Catholic high school was suspended, then arrested, for saying there are just two genders. Read &amp; RT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wZsuilRZj9\">https:\/\/t.co\/wZsuilRZj9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianlilley\/status\/1623455847300096001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, he doesn\u2019t actually bully them as that term would be defined by \u2026 reasonable people,&#8221; Kitchen told the Epoch Times. &#8220;He\u2019s not going to seek them out and call them names and make fun of them. But he does express his views about what these people say and about what they believe and about what they\u2019re doing. And he expresses them online, and he expresses them in the class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highschooler Josh Alexander protesting against Drag Queen Story Hour here in Ottawa was detained for unknown reasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZvGysz5rD\">https:\/\/t.co\/xZvGysz5rD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OSA9O3tpb7\">pic.twitter.com\/OSA9O3tpb7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lincoln Jay (@lincolnmjay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lincolnmjay\/status\/1623367213800427521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The high school junior reportedly has not been to school since he was first suspended in November. He led a student action in support of last year&#8217;s trucker convoy.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander&#8217;s suspension was lifted in January but it has effectively continued after the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board &#8220;excluded&#8221; him for the rest of the school year. The technically non-disciplinary action may continue into next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/02\/13\/698118\/Student-arrested-in-Canada-for-supporting-gender-binarism\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you question the \u201cnew normal\u201d now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":265035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265036,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265033\/revisions\/265036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}