“Discrimination” on city square
Toronto – In April Toronto’s homosexual councilor Kyle Rae objected to the Salvation Army being allowed to use the City Hall Square to kick off its Red Shield fundraising drive. He called the Army “homophobic,” and Mayor June Rowlands agreed with his objections. The Army went ahead with its opening ceremony, but she refused to attend. (See Interim, June 1992, p. 17)
Since then Toronto City Council has begun debating a by-law for the use of the Square, requiring group to pledge that they will follow the city’s so-called anti-discrimination policy. Based on the Ontario Human Rights Code, the policy forbids discrimination on legitimate grounds, including race, sex and religion. But it also declares opposition to the homosexual lifestyle or living common-law to be “discriminatory” and, therefore, banned.
In response, the Salvation Army pointed out that, even if it does not allow homosexuals to become officers, it goes into areas frequented by homosexuals and continues to serve their needs.
Others note that putting restrictions on use of the Square would contravene the Charter’s guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. In fact, Councilor Steve Ellis argues that the proposed by-law change would be akin to licensing “thought police.” He asked whether the eternal flame in the Square should be extinguished because “a Catholic pope lit it” (John Paul II did so during his visit in 1984).
In a strongly-worded Toronto Sun column, Christina Blizzard called the witch-hunt by the gays ridiculous: a tiny group of militant homosexuals is trying to convict the Salvation Army of conduct unbecoming a religious group. We now put on trail, she said, any organization which dares to adhere to a moral code. In fact, you can’t help thinking that Kyle Rae will not rest until he has removed every shred of decency from the city.
And that is precisely the logic of this issue. When a vice is renamed a virtue, it will not rest until virtues are renamed vices. The Council’s battle was rejoined on June 15, at which time the matter was referred back to the city’s solicitor to test its constitutionality.
Health benefits for gay partners
Toronto – The Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario scored another victory, this time with Metro Council, the body which oversees all the municipalities and regions of what is called Metro Toronto (population almost four million). It was successful in getting an 18-15 vote in favor of extending health benefits to same-sex relationships.
Note that the Italian vote, presumably all NDP – Pantalone, Fontinos, Colle, Augimeri, Gentile – went in favor of this latest corruption.
The cities of Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo have made the same decision already, together with Ontario Hydro and the Ontario Civil Service, both under NDP control.
The homosexual community sees each of these votes as moral victories. They are steps towards national recognition of gay and lesbian liaisons as “family.”
One can’t think of a more idiotic notion than declaring these relationships to be those of “a family,” yet this is precisely what is going on. Metro Council, in a 17-16 vote, solemnly decided to forward to the Ontario government another request to redefine the term “spouse” so as to include gays.
MP Tom Wappel attacked for raising questions
The slippery slope and where-will-it-all-end argument was also used by Member of Parliament Tom Wappel (Liberal – Scarborough West), in a letter he sent to his fellow MPs and to Senators early this year concerning homosexuality and pedophilia.
Thirty years ago, he pointed out, homosexuality was illegal. “Please ask yourself,” he continued, “if pedophilia today is where homosexuality was 30 years ago; or perhaps, more germanely, in 30 years, will pedophilia and other forms of ‘sexual orientation,’ such as incest, bestiality and necrophilia, be where homosexuality is today?”
His letter caused an uproar, not least in his own party. Feminist MP Mary Clancy (Liberal – Halifax) found the letter “reprehensible” and said Wappel ought to be disciplined.
Predictably, the most vehement response came from admitted homosexual Svend Robinson of B.C. (NDP – Vancouver-Burnaby), who called the letter “hate literature.”
Robinson himself campaigns for a lower age limit from 16 to 12 years for consent to homosexual activity. The same point was raised in the celebrated court case arising out of an article twelve years ago in Toronto’s “gay” newspaper Body Politic about men loving boys loving men, an article which advocated pedophilia.
The quest for such vile behavior continues unchecked. In response to Wappel’s letter, the Ottawa Sun’s Peter Stockland pointed out that he just received a copy of a publication put out by NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association.
It describes the efforts of pedophiles to break down moral or legal restraints against adult males having sex with male children. The society tries to organize support for boys and men who have or desire “consensual sexual and emotional relationships and to educate society on their positive nature.”
Wappel’s warning should have been given mass publicity. Instead, he was denounced for his efforts.
As the homosexuals continue to press for special rights and privileges, the “gay” magazine Xtra! Reported in May that homosexual bathhouses are once again flourishing in Toronto. A new one, St. Marc Spa, contains twenty thousand square feet, and has a helter-skelter layout which resembles a maze.
“We are expecting people to get lost,” explained one of the managers. “It’s more fun for people, running after someone and then losing him and then trying to find him again.”
The magazine called the revival of the bathhouse industry evidence of “a more overt interest in casual sex.”
Homosexuals not more than one or two per cent
In a special report on sexual orientation, the publication Saskatchewan Insight ridicules the frequent claim that 10 per cent of the population is homosexual.
The statistic was first produced by Alfred Kinsey, but only with qualifications. He said that “10 per cent of males in the general population were more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55.” Even Kinsey, a homosexual himself, considered that only 4 per cent of males “were exclusively homosexual throughout their adult lives.” Even of this group only about half – 1.9 per cent – reported homosexual experiences “occasionally” or “fairly often,” the other 2.1 per cent reported them “once, twice, or rarely.” Other studies cited by Insight produce estimates of 1 per cent to 2 per cent of the population as being exclusively homosexual.
