Voting Records

Candidate, Paul Marai

Halton Catholic District School Board, ON
Electoral District: Oakville Wards 4 & 7

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Paul Marai
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CLC rating: Pro-life, pro-LGBT ideology
Rating Comments: In February 2018, after initially voting against the motion, Trustee Marai reversed his stance and actually voted in support of an excellent motion to protect the Sanctity of Life through school board financial donations. He deserves praise for his pro-life stance. His vote was an amazing, last-minute turn of events that was critical in helping the pro-life motion to pass.

However, Marai's favourable, pro-life vote stands in contrast to his participation in the gay lifestyle . Paul Marai is an openly, homosexual-activist involved in the Toronto gay lobby (which has included membership in a group called Out On Bay Street). Sadly, after his initial election as a trustee, Marai led a vicious fight against the Church's teaching on human sexuality. He successfully pressured the Halton Board to drop its defense of Christian teaching on marriage & human sexuality, by reversing a ban against student-led gay pride clubs, a.k.a. GSAs. These GSAs are basically homosexual-activist groups that celebrate sexually-active homosexual relations, and seek to undermine the Christian belief that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that sexual activity between persons of the same sex is gravely sinful. All this anti-Catholic GSA activism is done under the clever ruse of 'anti-bullying' and 'eradicating homophobia', the latter expression being code for 'eradicating biblical beliefs about marriage'.

In 2013, Marai also voted in a way which would result in students receiving the message, albeit indirectly, that they are not expected to follow the church's teaching on abstinence before marriage. On this latter issue, he voted to lift the existing ban on a vaccine against HPV, a sexually-transmitted infection which can only be contracted by students if they're engaging in premarital sex, something which contradicts Catholic teaching.

First elected (yyyy.mm.dd): 2010
Percentage in last election: 13.21% (2010), 13.99% (2014)
Victory margin last election: 0.06% (2014)
Religion / Faith: Catholic

Contact

Paul Marai
Parliamentary Office
Catholic Education Centre
802 Drury Lane
Burlington, Ontario
L7R 2Y2
Tel: 905-842-3826
Fax: 905-333-4661
Constituency Offices
73 McCraney St. W.
Oakville, Ontario
L6H 1H5
Tel: 905-842-3826
Paul Marai

Here is Paul Marai's voting record relating to life and family issues:

Votes, Surveys and Policy Decision Vote Score
Sex-Ed curriculum: Motions to protect parental rights in education against the Wynne government's sex-ed over-reach.
Trustees from various school boards made motions to curtail the Wynne government's imposition of its graphic sex-ed curriculum. The curriculum infringes on parental rights in education by forcing children at very young ages to be exposed to anti-Catholic LGBTQ ideology, unhealthy sexual practices, and disordered gender concepts. Motions include those to delay implementation of the sex-ed curriculum to allow time for meaningful parental consultation, as well as a more detailed evaluation of the inadequate and evasive government-run consultation process.
Opposed bad
2nd vote on pro-life motion of Halton Catholic District School Board entitled "Upholding the Sanctity of Life Through Donations to Charities and Non-Profits"
This excellent motion, put forward by faithful Catholic Trustees of the Halton CDSB, would prevent financial donations from the school board from going to any charities or non-profits that publicly support the intrinsic evils of abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell research. [February 20, 2018]
Opposed bad
3rd vote on pro-life motion of Halton Catholic District School Board entitled "Upholding the Sanctity of Life Through Donations to Charities and Non-Profits"
This excellent motion, put forward by faithful Catholic Trustees of the Halton CDSB, would prevent financial donations from the school board from going to any charities or non-profits that publicly support the intrinsic evils of abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell research. [February 20, 2018]
Supported ok
Motion to condemn and/or retract OECTA's decision to participate in the 2014, World Gay Pride Parade [2014]
The homosexual pride parade totally contradicts the beliefs of the Catholic Church about marriage & human sexualty. It celebrates gay sex and promotes the homosexual lifestyle as normal, natural, healthy and perfectly moral. The parade includes mock sex acts, sexual bondage and sadomasochism. It is a scandal for any Catholic to be seen supporting it, much less Catholic teachers who work as agents of the Church.
abstained bad
Motion to prohibit homosexual-activist clubs in Catholic schools [2013]
Gay-straight alliance clubs (GSAs) are a type of gay pride club under the clever guise of being an "anti-bullying support group." GSAs typically work within schools to normalize romantic homosexual relations, homosexual 'marriage' and generally, to undermine biblical teaching about human sexuality. No legitimate Catholic can be faithful to their religion and also endorse or accept these gay pride clubs within the walls of a Catholic institution. This motion by Trustee Tanuan sought to reject the anti-Catholic gay pride clubs mandated by the Liberal government's Bill 13, and instead, adopt the wonderful anti-bullying framework that was written by Ontario's Catholic Bishops. That anti-bullying framework was called Respecting Difference.
Opposed bad
Vaccinating girls against the sexually-transmitted HPV infection, a policy which gives license to premarital sex and undermines Church teaching on abstinence [2007]
This fool-hardy policy would signal to young girls that it's ok to engage in premarital sex, and in fact, that it's expected of them. Besides the moral problems posed, the vaccine itself may be life-threatening. At the time this issue came up in schools across Ontario, the HPV vaccine known as Gardasil had already been linked to 11 deaths of young women and hundreds of hospitalizations in the United States in the first year of its availability. Therefore, an HPV vaccination policy in a Catholic school, serves not only to give licence to sexual promiscuity, but also endangers the lives of female children. It gives them a potentially deadly chemical substance, and a false sense of security that "it's 'safe' to have sex, because I'm 'protected' ". The HPV vaccine is not even close to a guaranteed prevention and actually "protects" against just a small percentage of HPV strains. The only policy that can result in 100% protection against HPV, is abstinence before marriage and fidelity within marriage. That's what Catholic schools should be teaching, rather than promoting false security blankets that encourage risky behaviour. [Oct 2007]
Supported (Nov 5, 2013) bad
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Here are the answers for the questionnaire as provided by Paul Marai on 2010.

Question Response
Will you personally uphold and work toward the public promotion of total fidelity to the faith and moral teachings of the Catholic Church? (Current examples include the illicitness of abortion, contraception and homosexual practice) *Note: Marai's survey answer is not reliable. His votes and actions have had the effect of undermining Catholic moral teaching.
Will you work to ensure that Catholic schools do not invite guest speakers who have publicly expressed positions that contradict the morality and teaching of the Church, no matter how great their achievements in politics, business, sports, science or the arts? *Note: Marai's survey answer is not reliable. His votes and actions have had the effect of undermining Catholic moral teaching.
Will you work to ensure that educational materials that enter the premises of Catholic schools (e.g., library resources, curriculum texts, awareness campaigns, flyers) and all approved school activities are consistent with and do not undermine the morality and teachings of the Church? *Note: Marai's survey answer is not reliable. His votes and actions have had the effect of undermining Catholic moral teaching.
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is an infection that is transmitted through sex. Will you therefore oppose HPV vaccination in schools because it sends the message to students, teachers and parents that obedience to Church teaching on abstinence before marriage is neither expected nor necessary? No (based on vote record)
Will you oppose teachings and attitudes in the school setting that undermine respect for and the dignity of human life from conception to natural death? refused to answer
Will you actively promote and defend the teaching of Catholic doctrine, the importance of prayer and a regular sacramental life? *Note: Marai's survey answer is not reliable. His votes and actions have had the effect of undermining Catholic moral teaching.
Will you work against any attempt to expand the sex-ed program in the Catholic Schools which is contrary to Church teaching, such as the one which included oral sex, masturbation and homosexuality, recently offered by the Ministry? *Note: Marai's survey answer is not reliable. His votes and actions have had the effect of undermining Catholic moral teaching.
Will you work to ensure that guest speakers, educational materials that enter the premises of Catholic schools (e.g., library resources, curriculum texts) and all approved school activities are consistent with and do not undermine the morality and teachings of the Church? refused to answer
Will you uphold, actively promote and defend the boards right to invite into its schools only those health personnel (e.g. nurses, counselors and other health professionals) who will respect Catholic Church teaching? refused to answer
Will you work to ensure that your Catholic school board enacts a policy requiring all agents and employees of the board to uphold the rights of custodial parents to direct and control the education of, and any medical treatment provided to, their dependent children attending its schools? *Note: Marai's survey answer is not reliable. His votes and actions have had the effect of undermining Catholic moral teaching.
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