Two years ago Surrey Christian School in British Columbia declined to renew a teacher's contract after asking her questions about her sexual life and what she did in her home with her boyfriend and getting honest answers that made just about everyone in the room uncomfortable.
Surrey Christian School superintendent Dave Loewen, the one who asked all the teacher all the personal questions that he wouldn't ask his grandmother, has stated that he "doesn't think asking people about their sexual preferences and activity is discriminatory regardless of what they're wearing", before the school's lawyer added that even if it would absolutely be illegal at a public school, private Christian schools are exempt from all Human Rights Laws thanks to grandfathered religious laws that apply only to Christian Schools in Canada.
The BC government has so far refused to comment, no doubt aware that doing so would draw attention to the fact that they give $300 million in funding to these schools and are fully aware of how bad that would reflect on them given that these types of incidents have been increasing in Canada in the past few decades, as well as other unsavory incidents involving Christians that have been coming to light has caused public opinion of Christian organizations to decline and association with them to be frowned upon.
Equal Rights advocates and human rights lawyers are calling for a change to the current exemptions to human rights laws that these organizations have, saying that this is a "dark secret" and that talking about the situation helps shed light on it and make the public more aware of these violations.
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