February Milton, Ont. Rev. Ken […]
When
1974-02
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February Milton, Ont. Rev. Ken Campbell refused to pay a portion of his school tax bill to protest "moral pollution" in the public education system. This protest was triggered, in part, by the visit during January 1974 of four members of Hamilton-McMaster GLM to address a grade twelve health class at M.M. Robinson High School in Burlington, attended by Campbell's daughters. George Hislop of CHAT and Campbell later discussed the issue on the CTV program Canada A.M. At this time Campbell was an evangelist with the Campbell-Reese Evangelistic Association, Inc., whose motto was "Global Evangelism Beginning at Home." He used the gays in schools controversy to form the Halton Renaissance Committee, which in turn grew to become Renaissance Canada, a registered charitable organization with branches across the country. Renaissance Canada was one of the sponsoring groups of Anita Bryant's Canadian tour in 1978.
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BurlingtonM.M. Robinson High SchoolMiltonAll People
Anita BryantGeorge HislopKen CampbellAll Organizations
Renaissance CanadaCanadian Television NetworkCommunity Homophile Association of Toronto CHATHamilton-McMaster Gay Liberation Movement GLM, McMaster Homophile Association MHAAll Monograph
Canada AMAll Citations
S.S. Que Hee, "The Chronology of Events during the Existence of the Hamilton McMaster and McMaster Homophile Associations 1972-1977," unpublished typescript, September 1977, 82- 013, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto, p, 4,Rudy Platiel, "Parson Withholds School Taxes as Protest over 'Moral Pollution,'" Globe and Mail, metro ed,, 12 March 1974, p. 2;" 'Moral Pollution' Sparks School Taxes Holdback," Hamilton Spectator, home ed,, 26 February 1974 P- 10;Rob Joyce, "Rebirth of Bigotry," Gay Tide, no, 19 (1978), pp. 1, 3;"Evangelist Fights School 'Sex Fascism,' " Toronto Star, four star ed,, 13 March 1974, p, C11;" Ken Campbell " vertical file, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto;Tom Alderman, "Saving the Children: Ken Campbell Rises with the Dawn to Liberate Them from Filth, Immorality, and Bad Spelling," Canadian Magazine, 15—16 September 1979, pp, 14-15;
