London mayor to apologize to LGBTQ community for predecessor’s actions

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London mayor to apologize to LGBTQ community for predecessor’s actions
Canadian Press
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Published:
January 12, 2018
Updated:
January 12, 2018 8:08 AM EST
People carry a large rainbow flag at the Toronto Pride parade.The Canadian Press
LONDON, Ont. — The mayor of London plans to apologize today to the city’s LGBTQ community for the refusal of a previous mayor and council to proclaim a gay Pride day in 1995.
Then-mayor Dianne Haskett refused a request from the gay community to declare a gay Pride weekend in July 1995, prompting complaints of discrimination.
Haskett said she was exercising her discretion as mayor when it comes to civic proclamations, but the Ontario Human Rights Commission later ruled the actions by Haskett and council had been discriminatory.
City council agreed to pay the Homophile Association of London a $10,000 penalty assessed against the city and Haskett.
In an email sent out last week, Mayor Matt Brown’s office said he will apologize to the LGBTQ community at 11 a.m. today on the steps in front of city hall.
Brown said in tweet that “it’s time.”
London mayor to apologize to LGBTQ community for predecessor

 

[Hoof Hearted]

That happened 23 years ago fcs!

The Mayor had to go back over 2 decades to find a slight against the gay community, so he could stand all righteous and finger-wag a council from 1995!

It's ridiculous!

 

[coldstream]

You can't change a sow's ear into a silk purse. No amount of apologies and inverted logic will change the true nature of homosexuality. It will alway be profoundly disordered in impulse, intrinsically evil in character, and a mortal sin (that which put's one's eternal salvation in jeopardy) in practice. Nothing will ever alter that. Certainly not the the proclamations of a New Age epiphany by big stupid goofballs like Dianne Haskett or Justin Trudeau.

 

[DaSleeper]

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[Danbones]

Oh trumphaters...

Daddy's home!

The pink “pussyhats” worn by American feminists throughout 2017 have become problematic.

But not because of their stupidity or vulgarity, but because – wait for it… – they are offensive to transgender and non-binary people!

That’s right, since transgender women don’t have vaginas, pussyhats are now a symbol that enforce unhealthy gender norms.

The Detroit Free Press reports this week that the Women’s March – which has been busy this month ignoring anti-veil women being brutally beaten in Iran – will hopefully feature a lot less of those genital head-coverings this year.

Oh, and pussyhats are definitely racist too.
https://www.infowars.com/feminists-now-say-pink-pussyhats-offensive-to-trans-non-binary/

Geeez, looks like somebody is putting battery acid right into america's brain.

 

[B00Mer]

So Danbones you’re homophobic too, who’d guess.

Just curious what is you opinion on Jews?

 

[Corduroy]

That post is a perfect example of what I said in another thread. Does Danbone's post have anything to do with topic? He just matched the keyword 'LGBTQ' with some unrelated drivel from infowars and copy and pasted it. There isn't a working human brain behind his account.

London mayor to apologize to LGBTQ community for predecessor’s actions
Canadian Press
More from Canadian Press
Published:
January 12, 2018
Updated:
January 12, 2018 8:08 AM EST
People carry a large rainbow flag at the Toronto Pride parade.The Canadian Press
LONDON, Ont. — The mayor of London plans to apologize today to the city’s LGBTQ community for the refusal of a previous mayor and council to proclaim a gay Pride day in 1995.
Then-mayor Dianne Haskett refused a request from the gay community to declare a gay Pride weekend in July 1995, prompting complaints of discrimination.
Haskett said she was exercising her discretion as mayor when it comes to civic proclamations, but the Ontario Human Rights Commission later ruled the actions by Haskett and council had been discriminatory.
City council agreed to pay the Homophile Association of London a $10,000 penalty assessed against the city and Haskett.
In an email sent out last week, Mayor Matt Brown’s office said he will apologize to the LGBTQ community at 11 a.m. today on the steps in front of city hall.
Brown said in tweet that “it’s time.”
London mayor to apologize to LGBTQ community for predecessor

I don't get why people get so upset about the government apologizing for an historic wrong. Except of course when they don't believe it's wrong, but the never say that (coldstream excluded). They have to hide their homoophobia by whining about the very idea of an apology.

 

[B00Mer]

Well if there is a brain, it’s one scary dark place..

Maybe living rent free in his head is like one of those haunted houses scary movies. :lol: