Tag Archives: Homosexuality

New School Policy: Cross-Dressing

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It’s been a while since I’ve had much faith in the education system anywhere — Canada or United States. It’s stories like this one that prove why…

Attention all kindergarten to Grade 8 students: Cross-dressing day is now cancelled.

This was the news given to students of King City Public School on Thursday after the school pulled the plug on holding an “Opposite Gender Day” on Friday, where kids as young as six would be allowed to come to school dressed as the opposite sex.

According to Ross Virgo of the York Region District School Board, King City PS officials cancelled the day following an outcry of opposition from parents.

“Opposite Gender Day has been cancelled in the wake of concerns of parents,” said Virgo. “The idea of (kids) experiencing being people of the opposite gender has offended some people in the community, and the school does not want to do that.”

Virgo said the chance to dress as the opposite sex was voluntary to students from junior kindergarten to Grade 8. He said it was proposed by the school’s student council and approved by the principal.

First off, I didn’t think that student councils existed to actually do anything. That said, this pushes the boundaries of accepting “alternative” lifestyles by actually encouraging students to participate in it. I don’t see what’s to be gained by pretending to be another gender for a day because, well, boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls (ideally.)

There’s an agenda in the public school system whether you like it or not, and it’s one that has always attempted to push acceptance over competence — both in academics, and now lifestyle. Keep in mind that in most jurisdictions, it’s virtually impossible for a teacher to fail even a high school student, let alone an elementary school student.

All we can be thankful for is that the parents stood up against this. Hopefully people will start to realize that parents can accomplish more than teachers and bureaucrats.

Didn’t see this one coming

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In the seasonal slew of municipal elections across Canada, I was expecting that Toronto would deliver the surprise of the year with the impending Mayoral victory of Rob Ford, or as my colleague Ari Fine calls him, “The only person I’ve ever been looking forward to voting for.” What I wasn’t expecting was the downfall of Calgary.

Calgary’s new Mayor is none other than Naheed Nenshi (don’t worry, no one else has heard of him either.) There are a couple of factors here to consider: 1) He’s gay; 2) He’s a Muslim; and, worst of all, 3) He’s Harvard-educated. While I wonder how the homosexual, Muslim professor was elected in Calgary, a city formerly known as Canada’s Houston (in the province of Alberta, Canada’s Texas,) I find it particularly amusing that this is a guy who needed to run a campaign ad telling people how to pronounce his name (apparently Abdullah Bin-Buttrumping wasn’t good enough.)

Despite running a campaign with a fiscally-conservative platform out of necessity, Nenshi’s campaign was lacking in what most would refer to as “a platform.” Conservative cabinet Minister Jason Kenney referred to it as a “brilliant ideas-based campaign,” but I question how this “ideas-based campaign” is anything more than a big month-long singing of Kumbaya. Seriously, Nenshi wanted to start a revolution where the city folk would spend more time “talking to the person next to you on the bus” and “taking an extra minute with the cashier at Safeway.” All that he was missing were Styrofoam Greek columns and crowds chanting “Yes we can!” And, much like Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign, with no record to stand on, people were happy swooning over a vision. The true conservative in this race was Ric McIver, and Calgarians will soon learn how bad having a leader who doesn’t represent them is.

Interesting advice from a government-funded newspaper

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Xtra Magazine claims to be the primary source for Canada’s gay and lesbian news. Now, Xtra is anything but a member of the mainstream media. However, I still would like to hold a publication that receives federal funding from the Ministry of Heritage to a higher standard than is deserved by this paragon of contemporary journalism. In a piece about frontrunner Toronto mayoral candidate Rob Ford (incidently the only conservative in the race,) Shawn Syms’ article “Deep inside Rob Ford” bears the byline, Anal passion could give birth to compassion. Shawn’s expert advice? Have anal sex with the city councilor.

Maybe Toronto City Councillor Rob Ford just needs to take it up the butt. And I’d love to be the one to give it to him.

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Exploring anal intimacy could finally allow the man a new openness to others who are different from himself — and in a sense that is tangible instead of just metaphorical. Allowing someone else to pleasure themselves inside you involves a spirited abandonment of personal interest — it’s about giving, instead of always taking away. Maybe if he didn’t have such a tight ass, the noted penny pincher might not be such a tightwad.

Successfully taking it in the rear is the ultimate lesson in vulnerability and trust — two qualities that could go a long way toward improving Ford’s attitude toward the diverse and complex world around him.

As a warning, it only gets worse. Does Xtra represent the mainstream gay community? Perhaps, perhaps not. But one thing’s for sure, politicians should keep their backs to the wall we need to take a serious look at how we define organizations that supposedly enhance Canadian culture. If this represents cultural values that Canadians need to embrace (no pun intended, seriously,) then I think it’s time for those representing Judeo-Christian values to rise up again and say “hold up!” to the government.

H/T to Blazing Cat Fur

"Dykes" to the rescue!

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While the notion of hundreds of lesbians all marching down a street wearing fishnet stockings may sound appealing to some people, I think a city sponsored “Dyke March” may be a little much.

Rainbow flags, fishnet stockings and broad smiles littered the streets as thousands celebrated Toronto’s Dyke March under a bright, pelting sun Saturday. It was a stark difference from the G20 riots last weekend where black-clad protesters clashed with police under wet, dreary skies.

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“Our guys needed this,” said Sgt. Nancy McLean, an openly-gay Toronto police officer. “Morale was pretty low after last weekend.”

McLean escorted the parade on bicycle, but still participated as she posed for pictures with supporters, who loved her rainbow-coloured socks and the paper rainbow flag planted into her helmet.

About 60 motorcycles, including a Toronto police Harley-Davidson in the lead, rumbled onto Bloor St. from Church to mark the start of the march. Riders wore everything from bikinis to feathered rainbow boas.

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“As gays, we bring a lot of love to the streets,” Chen said.

I suppose the lesson that municipal governments need to learn is that when morale is down, send the lesbians to the rescue! I don’t have a problem with that actually, I just question how police aren’t permitted to show any sort of political affiliation or overtly hold any religious beliefs, but having a rainbow flag glued to their helmet is okay. I wonder what would happen if the Confederate Flag were flying from the police cruiser…

Happy Anti-Something Day!

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Once again, another day comes when we are supposed to united together and condemn or support an idiotic Leftist cause. Today, May 17th, that day is “International Day Against Homophobia.” (Presumably based on the U.N.’s record of irony, Iran was likely appointed the leading country for this cause.) As a pundit of sorts, generally my role is to take a somewhat coherent quote by a liberal, point out how idiotic it is, and then enjoy the rest of my day. The stupidity behind this day speaks for itself, however:

Few minority groups have been as discriminated against as the gays and lesbians. But major breakthroughs have occurred, and homosexual people are stepping out of the shadows.

Firstly, I hope that no homosexual person ever steps out of the shadows when I’m walking by…that could be a little creepy. Secondly, this is is a statement that proves Ann Coulter to be correct once again. As she said in a recent speech, “gays wish they were black.” Over and over again the gay community pretends that they have been forced into slavery (not counting the times they voluntarily get chained down,) were subject to gays-only water fountains,  had to overcome “homosexuals need not apply” signs, and ultimately that they have experienced and continued to experience some sort of systemic discimination that borders on genocide.

With the exception of gay marriage, there does not remain a single iota of evidence that gays experience any sort of discrimination from a governmental or political level. Of course, anyone who declares that they don’t think there needs to be an anti-homophobia day will, of course, be labeled as a homophobe. However, there remains a huge difference between supporting a goal and supporting a smoke-and-mirrors approach to attempting to achieve that goal.

I support any individual’s right to be gay, that doesn’t mean I think the government should pay $500,000 for a gay pride parade.

I condemn anyone who commits an act of violence against a person for their sexuality; but I don’t believe those instances should be used as an excuse to push through ineffective “hate crimes” legislation.

I oppose gay marriage because I believe that the government should be completely removed from marriage altogether; that doesn’t mean that I don’t support the right for gays to engage in civil unions or common-law partnerships.

To create a special day for an issue accomplishes nothing but gives people a platform to create for themselves a victim identity. As an incremental approach, I think we should just rename April 1st “Whiny Victim’s Day” and let all groups who perceive themselves to be victims get it out at once so that the other 364 days of the year can be filled with people not being pathetic.

Another pissed off gay teacher

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Ever since gay people started teaching teachers started coming out of the closet, school boards have had to defend themselves against the ACLU and lawsuits from the angry Madonna-loving men who get fired and decide to blame it on discrimination. Though, in all fairness, they’re usually right.

Today, we go instead to a bitter obnoxious lesbian (not that there’s any other kind) who got fired from her job teaching for a Catholic school because her and her lesbian lover were going to have a child.

Music teacher Lisa Reimer was teaching at a fully private Catholic school in Vancouver (pretty much the Seattle of Canada) when she requested maternity leave as her and her partner were going to be having a baby (yeah, they let them do that here.) The school, who had opted to not fire her when she announced her homosexuality despite their legal right to do so, said that their hands were tied and decided to pay her out until the end of the year, and just wouldn’t renew her contract.

Whether or not you agree with the tenet of Catholicism frowning upon same-sex relationships is another issue entirely. Reimer signed a “Catholicity Contract” vowing to promote and live by “Catholic” values (I’m unsure at this point whether touching young boys was forbidden or not.) Furthermore, private schools should be able to hire or fire whomever they want. When I blogged a little while back about Constance McMillen, the lesbian who was forbidden from going to her prom, I expressed the belief that because that was a public school, the school didn’t have the right to forbid her from attending — and the other shenanigans that followed were just as bad. With this case, however, the government isn’t involved. It’s a private school, a business, and the teacher has made two major breaches in her contract, ignoring the good grace of the school to give her full pay for another two months.

On the upside, at least she gets full salary for sitting at home watching Ellen now. I’m so jealous.

Silly rabbit, proms are for straight people

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H/T to RightGirl for this one.

There are a few adjectives I’m considering using for this post: clever, mean, petty, frigging hilarious? I give up, take your pick.

I was trying to find an old post to link this to, but apparently I never actually wrote about it. So, here’s the jist: 17-year old lesbian extraordinaire Constance McMillen wanted to attend her prom at Itawamba County School in Mississippi with a female date, and she wanted to wear a tuxedo instead of those lovely dresses that end up wrinkled in a heap on the floor of the empty science classroom a hotel. So, the girl feels she’s being discriminated against and goes to the ACLU, who tells the school that they can’t make her act straight, nor can they ban her from the prom. Then, the school gives up and cancels it, which apparently wasn’t allowed either, so they put it back on.

Now, the story has taken a bit of an interesting turn.

From The Advocate: (No, I had never heard of it either…)

To avoid Constance McMillen bringing a female date to her prom, the teen was sent to a “fake prom” while the rest of her class partied at a secret location at an event organized by parents.

McMillen tells The Advocate that a parent-organized prom happened behind her back — she and her date were sent to a Friday night event at a country club in Fulton, Miss., that attracted only five other students. Her school principal and teachers served as chaperones, but clearly there wasn’t much to keep an eye on.

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Two students with learning difficulties were among the seven people at the country club event, McMillen recalls.

Okay firstly, the school in question is a public school, so I really don’t think they should have been able to discriminate against this girl based on her lifestyle choice. I disagree with her, but I respect her right to freedom of expression. That being said, I also respect the rights of the other students at the school and their parents, and their right to set up a privately-sponsored, separate event that was taking place at the same time. The principal and a few teachers were in attendance to chaperone the country club prom — is it their responsibility if no one shows up?

I must admit, however, that I find it amusing that Miss Holier-Than-Thou-Lesbian feels the need to point out that there were two developmentally-challenged people in attendance of the country club prom. Is she saying that she feels they weren’t worthy of her presence?

If anyone involves themselves in this situation legally apart from the students at the school and the lesbian, a scary precedent will be set for being able to sue people for not inviting you to a party. If that’s the case, then seriously, I’m making a killing off of everyone I went to high school with.