{"id":9138,"date":"2010-06-26T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T18:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2010-06-26T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T18:45:45","slug":"%ef%bb%bftoronto-pride-parade-allows-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/%ef%bb%bftoronto-pride-parade-allows-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffToronto Pride parade allows hate speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the CBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Jewish groups are angry that organizers of Toronto’s Gay Pride festival have decided to reverse an earlier ban that prevented the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid group from participating in the Pride Week events.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Pride Toronto decided to ban the group from their July 4 parade for fear that allowing them to participate would jeopardize their funding from the City of Toronto.<\/p>\n

That decision caused an outcry within Pride Toronto, with some members saying the decision smacked of censorship.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Pride Toronto’s board lifted the ban, saying it was not up to them to decide whether groups violated the city’s anti-discrimination policy. Instead, Pride Toronto will now ask all groups participating in Pride Week to first sign the city’s anti-discrimination policy.<\/p>\n

Giorgio Mammoliti, who is also running for mayor, will introduce a motion at council demanding that Pride return all city funding, about $250,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Generally I am all for allowing anyone to say whatever they want; that some people \u2013 including Jimmy Carter \u2013 foolishly call Israel\u2019s attempts to protect itself \u201capartheid\u201d is more a comment on their own blinkered anti-Israel bigotry than anything else.<\/p>\n

But now we have the organisers of the Gay Pride festival who, if criticised, are only too ready to deflect the criticism with shrill cries of \u201chomophobia\u201d and \u201chate speech\u201d, permitting a contingent in their parade to display \u2013 hate speech. And the city of Toronto is paying $250,000 \u2013 so far, at least \u2013 to help them finance it.<\/p>\n

The idiocy of all this is not diminished by the fact that the only country in the Middle East that allows a gay pride march is the one Queers Against Israeli Apartheid are determined to vilify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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