Josh Alexander was arrested by police Monday afternoon for breaching an exclusion order, but the real crime that the student is being punished for is upholding his Catholic beliefs and doing so in what some would no doubt think is a defiant and troublesome manner.The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit. Get NP Platformed delivered to your inbox weekdays by 4 p.m. ET.
Josh said he had never “dead named” anyone, that is referred to their previous name before transitioning. Some will say Josh knew what he was doing, that he was breaking the rules by trespassing and he suffered the consequences. Maybe he’s seen as troublesome. Maybe his religious principles seem quaint, outdated and decidedly un-woke. The principal of St Joseph’s probably wishes he had never heard of him.Article content
Kirky861 What on earth?
Oh my God?!?!! THAT'S WHAT CATHOLIC SCHOOL IS ABOUT.... CATHOLICISM
WTF!?!?!! THAT'S WHAT CATHOLIC SCHOOL IS ABOUT....CATHOLICISM
This world is going insane. 🤦🏼♀️
Josh Alexander, a Catholic student at a Catholic school gets arrested (and suspended)for defending what the Church teaches. Meanwhile further west in Ontario, an Oakville shop teacher sporting gigantic artificial breasts is free to offend! Woke world.
I think the most telling thing about all this is just how dishonest transphobes are. They'll lie and make stuff up just to inflict further hatred. His beliefs had nothing to do with this they apply solely to him
Will be interested to see if the Globe picks up this story
why doesn't this mention the anti-trans rally he organized?
Something wrong here
I support LGBTQ. Be nice. Treat everyone with respect. That said, freedom is the right to look at someone and say ‘I completely disagree with your lifestyle’.
Love how some are purposefully using trespassing as cover. He was trespassed and is being denied an education because of his opinion. It isn't right. I do however think he's also stirring the pot as he's been detained 3 times in 3 different locations. There's more to the story.
This is why there should no longer be a Separate School Board in Ontario.
I used to volunteer for reading at my kids' elementary school. Only parents of a child in the class could enter a classroom to read. Are these drag queens parents of the children & what is their motive?🫤
He was suspended & still came to school. There are ways to challenge suspensions, but he was arrested for trespassing, not “expressing Catholic beliefs”. Do the facts not matter to your publication at all?
Arrested for attending class and participatingin discussion. Absolute insanity
Time to stop this charade of Catholic schools and do what Quebec has done and go to two school boards, English and French instead of the onerous 4.
We’ll this is a BS story, I’ll assume all of your stories are the same. Zero credibility and not worth the time reading.
No he was arrested for trespassing. Schools are in fact private property controlled by a non profit corporation. You are only allowed to be there if you are A) A student in good standing (he was suspended) B) A parent/guardian there on appropriate business.
He was arrested for trespassing. Obviously a media grabbing stunt because he was suspended and knew he wasn't welcome on the property.
Fake news. Arrested for trespassing. The Police certainly didn’t arrest the youth for expressing catholic beliefs, the school suspended the student. Despite what anyone’s position is on this issue, accurate responsible reporting is in order. Not woke anti police rhetoric
Lol you can't be offensive to one group but they can be to another lol anowflakes
That's a pretty misleading headline even for the National Post. The student was arrested for trespassing. He has no right to bully other students.
What's the count now, 3 or is it 4 times in as many weeks that he's had run ins with law enforcement? When you read the story and you think it's odd that he got in trouble for 'that', there's more to the story. He borderlines on hate crime, one of these times...
BOOOOOO!!! How are you going to kick a catholic student out because some transgender kid doesnt agree with his religious beliefs...FROM A CATHOLIC FUCKING SCHOOL!
Live footage just released of the Catholic kid:
This is outrageous ! I am disgusted with this Catholic School Board with the way they handled this matter! 👎🏼
Omg what is this world coming to! Maybe we should purge..
Another nail in the coffin of Catholic education.
The dogma of the Catholic Church is now less extreme than the dogma of the current state of political correctness. Wacky times.
It’s not about if he’s right or wrong it’s about his freedom to express his feelings - I don’t care about the religion aspect. This is political correctness gone off the rails! The school is not handling this the right way. Now he can’t attend classes with trans people in it?
Hate crime?
Sounds about right. Many Catholic beliefs are hateful and harmful. 'If kids got raped by clowns as often as they get raped by priests it would be against the law to take your kids to the circus.' - Dan Savage
'Catholic beliefs' involve a lot of homophobia and bigotry, so no wonder. All religion is a crock.
'Josh, believes there are only two genders, that people can’t switch genders, and that male students shouldn’t use girls’ washrooms. But expressing those views in a classroom discussion on gender at St. Joseph’s Catholic High School in Renfrew, Ont., got him suspended.'
I'm struggling with why do people believe their beliefs apply to others and not just themselves, as is the case. This kid is entitled to believe he isn't transgendered. No transperson would deny them that belief, yet he feels compelled to tell other what they are or can be.
Lol the same guy was literally at the National Arts Centre this morning in Ottawa yelling obscenity and harassing parents attending to a family drag queen events. I guess it is also part of his freedom of religion 🤣🤣🤣
False
We are man and woman. There's nothing to discuss.
Religions are intolerant by definition - blind faith requires you believe unconditionally. If you believe, then all opposing views are wrong.
So.....what now with Muslims? Oh, ya....only Christians can be persecuted....
Please help make the book '1984' fiction again!
This is the Canada that JustinTrudeau & liberal_party have created. A student arrested for expressing his religious beliefs. That is the main purpose behind C-11…silence people with opposing views. None of what was said was hate speech!TrudeauDestroyingCanada
Was he trying to *burn his mother alive for wearing two types of cloth or did he *kill his brother for planting another crop beside his? The law of the Old Testament is the rule to the end of days. goodtimes
Meanwhile, there are Islamic schools in Ontario that segregate boys and girls. One of these schools would not allow their all boy soccer team to play against a team with 2 girls on it! The girls had to sit on the bench rather than ban the Islamic school from competition.
School motto '...to love unconditionally and educate hearts and minds...'
He was arrested for trespassing and harassment. He was accosting children at their school.
These schools are no longer Catholic in anything but name or nepotism.....
Gutfeldfox another one you might like form woke Ontario.
He was kicked out of school for harassing other students. He was told he could return if he stopped the harassment. He didn't agree to the conditions and returned anyway. Therefore, arrested for trespassing. NP headline is bullshit as always.
He is entitled to his beliefs nothing and no one can take that from him. Expressing his beliefs, however, can be done in such a way as to harm others. This is unacceptable. If he was having a discussion then he should have been open to hearing the other side.
Offended by Catholic beliefs well attending a Catholic school? Am I the only one who sees irony in that
Kicked out of school for stating an obvious fact. Can we stop the rainbow stupidity revolution now?
So the NHL player should have been arrested for not wearing pride jersey because of his religious believes?!
Human rights supersede Catholic beliefs.
Either ALL religions based schools be publicly funded or NONE. This is ridiculous to see public funds are used to Catholic Religion only. What about other religions?
You can't go around arresting and suspending everybody for saying the truth and then expect the truth to just magically change. Truth doesn't work that way.
This also shows how strong the grip of perversion is on someone, and the lengths they are willing to go. The entitlement. These are common characteristics and yes were common among Nazis. To sit there and let a school do this to someone while you’re dressed as another gender
NeverAgain “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme” If you have solid views you don’t need to punish those who call your views into question. This use of force and aggression and alienation, and everything else they are doing, shows what they are doing is evil.
I wonder what historian will say about all this in a 100 years...
It’s time …..
So wrong
Can't even begin to say how angry this makes me.... That is one of the most disturbing things I have heard yet. Where is the school? Lets encouraged all their donors to stop paying
He was arrested for trespassing. Not expressing religious beliefs. Misleading headline.
For comments made during a classroom discussion is outrageous. Young people are harming themselves, either by mutilating themselves or taking dangerous hormones. Reinstate the student and let rational thinking prevail.
I would pull him from that school so fast. What is this world coming to.
What a crock. He was arrested for trespassing
And I agree. How else do you decipher a new born child.
'bigot faces consequences' there I fixed it for you
Absolutely ridiculous, we're losing our freedo of speech along with other things and you can thank our government leader Trudeau for that, this country is quickly becoming communist
Ridiculous
Lol.
Like all abusive regimes if you don’t adopt their beliefs you are silenced. People are free to feel and love who they want. Biology is a science. Gender is a fact. It’s ironic the left are now woeful science deniers.
Only them/they can express their views but not our hero? Very bad and I hope the Court will make it clear what in means to respect human rights and freedoms, once and for all.
Sickening, all these other religions and sexual perversions including Mr. giant ti*s, are just fine but let's attack Christianity once again, sick of it.
There is a councilor in Hamilton that hates the Catholic church and Canadian flag. hamont
Biologically correct answer You are either male or female The rest is gender dystopia which is a illness
Talking Snakes? Magic Boats? Ignore murdered children buried in the yards in unmarked graves...? Which one? My Opinion: *just wondering why we fund these psychos?
What beliefs were those be?
And even if allowed to return, he's not allowed into two classes where there are two 'transgender' students who object to his religious beliefs. We've gone beyond stupid into bizarro world.
Somebody gotta beat this kid up
The fact he was arrested for trespassing is hardly the story. The fact he was expelled for standing by his morals is the issue. Especially by a Catholic school which should worry alot more people
Exorcisms?
Most responses to this will not be typed, as you’ll be banned from twitter almost immediately.
NP is lying again re arrest at high school. Trying spin the story to their marching orders.
Suddenly schools don't like protests anymore?
Modern day Canada is a terrifying Orwellian place.
This “student” is a Catholic criminal.
I too believe same way. 2 genders. Wtf is wrong with society. Either pro- create. Or you just simply don’t.
Catholic beliefs still don’t include hate speech and violence against others as a literal Catholic school has ruled. He was expelled for his actions and then trespassed. He was expressing his hate, there is no place for that kind of behaviour anymore.
None of us were in his class discussion, so we dont know this young man's tone . I am Catholic, and I agree with this young man. Why should the majority cater to the few? To keep the piece put in gender neutral bathrooms.
Kirky861 TuckerCarlson
Wtf is that again
Maybe not the best analogy, but if A=B, and B=C, then A=C. Suspended for his beliefs and charged with trespassing due to the suspension. Indirectly he was charged with trespassing because of his Catholic beliefs (in a Catholic school no less).
It's almost like we should do away with Catholic schools
Yeah. It wasn’t for “Catholic beliefs”
There is def more to this story. School's don't arrest kids for their beliefs. There is more that the school is not allowed to talk about.
Sounds like he is bullying those other students, actually.
No he was arrested for trespassing. Schools are in fact private property controlled by a non profit corporation. You are only allowed to be there if you are A) A student in good standing (he was suspended) B) A parent/guardian there on appropriate business.
What has happened with this Country, Boys shouldn’t be using Girls washrooms.
He’s wrong, but the Bible is also wrong (which we all know), but 1% of people are born hermaphrodite, so there goes that belief…..
Welcome to woke tyranny
At least they're finally making the case to combine the two school boards into a single, common, public one. Silver lining?🙄
He is absolutely correct. Good for him standing up for his beliefs. The queer community are fine with their beliefs, why not the straight community
Hello. I find it interesting that the only perspective cited here is that of the student. I would like to hear the school’s perspective, and the perspective of his classmates. I suspect you are not telling the whole story - not by a long shot.
I thought he had been expelled, then tried to enter the premises..? Wouldn’t that be arrested for trespassing, not for his beliefs?
Arrested? For staying his belief? What’s happening?
1) He's wrong. 2) The fact that he was arrested is outrageous.
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