The Toronto District School Board is not known for its staunch social conservatism or as a haven for delicate prudes so, when a few of its members hint that they would like Canada’s nudity laws enforced at the Toronto Pride parade, it’s reasonable to take the request seriously.
As one of the members noted:
“This is a municipal matter and it has to do with the policing and the enforcing of the laws of Canada in the streets of Toronto,” he told CBC News. “If you were to do this in any other ward throughout the city at any other time of day during that same period, you’d likely be arrested.”
Naturally, there have been cries of “homophobia”:
Some have criticized the trustees’ motion as homophobic
Yet, if gay men and women truly want their lifestyle to be accepted as normal, surely they would want to be treated just like everyone else in every circumstance; to do otherwise is discriminatory. By not arresting an individual parading himself naked during the Pride Parade, the police are exhibiting a type of homophobia: the fear of treating homosexuals just like heterosexuals.
I do hope these municipal bylaws will be enforced. If they are, the only argument bigots will have is their bigotry.
Hold the parade in January, it won’t be an issue
Come on we know that they are above the law because they have everyone running scared for fear that they will be called that word that paralyzes any type of challenge to what they practice ..”Homophobic”. Once they use this weapon the debate becomes nul and void for any statement you could say how ever true or sound becomes irrational.
Life Site News (online) February 17,2014, article by Peter Baklinski offers 4 authorities to contact:1) Toronto Public School Board, 2) TPSB member, Sam Sotiopoulos, 3) Toronto Police,4) Mayor, Rob Ford – an ‘Emperor’ with his clothes on!
A modest proposal of public protest:that the statue of Robert Raikes, founder of the Sunday Schools, located beside Queens Park Legislative building, be draped fully in black on day of the offensive parade.