Posted on 05/07/2013 9:06:55 PM PDT by Morgana
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, May 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An independent contractor was fired by RE/MAX on Thursday after the media took note of a real estate flyer he had distributed that included an excerpt of an article on the back about how children do best in a household with their married mother and father.
Andrew Ciastek, who immigrated to Canada years ago and speaks with a heavy Polish accent, came under fire after some Mississauga area residents complained to RE/MAX, Peel Regional Police, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission about the flyer he had handed out in April.
The realtor has frequently sent market-related flyers to the community, filling the reverse side with interesting trivia. Previous flyers had included information about how trans-fat intake increases the risk of depression, how to choose quality paint, how to maintain an air conditioning unit, and why a home owner should insulate the attic.
But it appears his latest flyer hit a nerve.
“[They’re] trying to destroy an innocent person,” Ciastek told LifeSiteNews.com. “I want to have the same life I was having a week ago, with small pleasures and small troubles. This is what I want. I don’t want nothing more, nothing less.”
“Why am I the most hated person in Ontario today?”
On the backside of the offending flyer, Ciastek had posted an article from a Polish news source, which said: “Traditional family is the best for the future of the kids.”
Drawing on a recent study by sociology professor Mark Regnerus, the article said: “[Regnerus] discovered that among offspring of homosexual couples unemployment is three times higher than among offspring of heterosexual couples.” A picture of a man and woman with two children at the beach filled half the page.
The day The Toronto Star broke the story about the flyer, Ciastek was fired.
"The views and opinions expressed in the piece obviously do not reflect those of RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada or the other RE/MAX agents," said spokesperson Christine Martysiewicz. "It was a poor choice on (Ciastek's) behalf and we sincerely apologize."
“We're offended by the insensitivity shown here just as much as the community is. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce and our clients,” she said.
While Ciastek has been labeled ‘homophobic’ and ‘anti-gay,’ he is not the traditional family crusader that homosexual activists have made him out to be. He has admitted to attending Toronto’s Gay Pride parades. He told Yahoo! News Canada that he “probably would be a very good neighbour” to homosexuals since he believes that “everybody, no matter what colour or gender, has a right to love and be loved.”
“I don’t hate anybody. I’m not anti-gay or anything,” he told LifeSiteNews. Ciastek has since issued an apology, offering to make a donation to charity in the hope of appeasing his critics.
But he says he doesn’t understand the backlash against the flyer.
“Right now, I am the victim and my family,” he said.
In the social study Ciastek referenced, University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus had found that children raised by homosexuals have significantly more social and mental-health problems than children raised by heterosexual parents.
Regnerus’ research methods and findings were firmly upheld by university officials after homosexual activists accused the researcher of crafting a study “designed so as to be guaranteed to make gay people look bad, through means plainly fraudulent and defamatory.”
Gwen Landolt, national vice-president of REAL Women Canada, called the backlash over the flyer an “attack” that serves as a “prime example of the viciousness of political correctness”.
“Political correctness has exceeded any standards of reasonableness,” she said.
“The pro-homosexuals are the most intolerant group we have in Canada,” she added. “They are intolerant because they don’t want anyone who doesn’t accept their agenda to have any say, to be involved in society. They want to marginalize them. They want to control society. They are totally, utterly, and completely intolerant.”
Jack Fonseca, project manager for Campaign Life Coalition, called the response to the flyer “more shocking proof that soft-totalitarianism has arrived in Canada, under the banner of ‘gay rights.’”
“We see now that when gay activists talk about ‘honouring diversity,’ it’s political double-speak for ‘imposing uniformity in thought, belief and opinion’. They tolerate no dissent,” he said.
“The moral authority granted to homosexual activists by legalizing gay ‘marriage’ is being used as a stick to beat those with whom they disagree,” he said. “It’s being used not only to silence Christians and people with traditional values, but also to destroy their lives. This poor Mississauga man was not being ‘anti-gay’ in the least, as he was caricatured in media reports. He was merely supporting the traditional family.”
“Before the true definition of marriage was abolished, gay-activists marginalized the concerns expressed by pro-family advocates by accusing them of ‘sky is falling’ alarmism. Well, the sky is now falling… at least on the heads of those who dare to publicly exercise their constitutional right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion.”
Mississauga residents who took issue with Ciastek’s flyers decided not to file a human rights complaint after receiving legal advice.
Contact info:
Christine Martysiewicz RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada Ph: 905.542.2400
Find online e-mail form here.
FACTS = HATE, HATE, and MORE HATE
RE/MAX needs a bit of push back about this...
you stood up for the truth, fella, that’s why they hate you so
The truth must not be spoken if it offends.....
Like broken plate glass windows in their sales offices.
Come get me wussie mounties!
Under the eye of God, near the giant river,
The Canadian grows hoping.
He was born of a proud race,
Blessed was his birthplace.
The sky has noted his career
In this new world.
Always guided by its light,
He will keep the honour of his flag,
He will keep the honour of his flag.
From his patron, the precursor of the true God,
He wears the halo of fire on his brow.
Enemy of tyranny
But full of loyalty,
He wants to keep in harmony,
His proud freedom;
And by the effort of his genius,
Set on our ground the truth,
Set on our ground the truth.
Sacred love of the throne and the altar,
Fill our hearts with your immortal breath!
Among the foreign races,
Our guide is the law:
Let us know how to be a people of brothers,
Under the yoke of faith.
And repeat, like our fathers,
The slogan: “For Christ and King! “
The slogan: “For Christ and King!
There’s a minute and a half promo at the start, but this is a long video you want to send to everyone who isn’t yet convinced. This is the history of the roadmap that was created by the Fabians, the Marxists, the progressives, et al toward the destruction of America. It is on track, and has been successful beyond expectation! This is the video which explains what is in store behind the push for homosexuality being seen as a normal sexual trait and the end of America. Can I say it plainer? Pass it around, if you wish. God bless.
Just simple fact, supported by centuries of experience and reams of data.
Traditional families should avoid the bigot, Christine Martysiewicz and RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada
Sold my last house through Re/MAX but won’t hire them again next time.
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If this guy is any good at RE sales - - and since he was an indie w/ Re/Max, he must be - - then he can sell for anybody or open his own shop (if he’s got his broker license). It would not surprise me to see him double his sales and income in the near future. Normal people will flock to him, and the scumbag faggots will wail.
Or better yet, shoot down their stupid balloons ;)
REMAX will never sell a house for me or anyone I know if I can help it!
Mel
I know there are similar agencies developing here in the states, but there is something about the phraseology involved that I find chilling. I've always thought of human rights tribunals as things reserved for people who gas women and children in death camps or turn their countries into killing fields. Not for people who hold "incorrect" opinions in a supposedly free and open society.
I love Canada and most Canadians, but this is nuttiness!
Apparently the author of the pamphlet/advertisement in question forgot to adhere to the tenets of Big Brother’s Orwellian Newspeak.
Following the deletion of the offending party from the rolls of the living, he will spend the remainder of his life in the Gulag.
How is JC Penney doing?
Truth = hate. These “Human Rights Commissions” are Orwellian and one way.
You may not be at war with the homosexuals, but they are at war with you!
HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
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