LGBT activists take Ontario town to Human Rights Tribunal for refusing to fly ‘Pride’ flag

LifeSite News ^ | June 6, 2024 | Clare Marie Merkowsky

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LGBT activists take Ontario town to Human Rights Tribunal for refusing to fly ‘Pride’ flag

Emo, a small town in Ontario, is being targeted with legal action by LGBT activists for its 2020 decision to refuse to fly the 'pride' flag and proclaim June as 'pride' month.

EMO, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A small town in Ontario has refused to bend to the demands of LGBT activists and will now have to appear in front of a Human Rights Tribunal for rejecting a 2020 motion to proclaim June as “Pride” month and fly the LGBT “Pride” flag.   

This week, Emo, a small township in Ontario, is attending a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario proceeding after an LGBT group filed a complaint over a 2020 town council decision not to celebrate June as “Pride” month, according to local news outlet Northwest Ontario News.  

“There’s no flags being flown for the straight people,” Mayor Harold McQuake had told the Emo council in 2020. 

At the 2020 meeting, the town council had voted 3-2 against proclaiming June as “Pride” month and flying LGBT flags from municipal buildings.   

The motion was requested by Borderland Pride, a local LGBT activist group.

Shortly after the motion was voted down, the group filed a human rights complaint, demanding the town apologize for their decision, proclaim June as “Pride” month, and fly the LGBT flag for one week.  

In April 2024, Borderland Pride offered to drop the case if the town agreed to the previous demands.   

“This is a good deal. You should take it,” Borderland Pride’s letter to Emo stated. “The alternative is to continue to waste taxpayer money fighting a losing battle in defence of bigotry and hate.”  

However, the township chose to reject the proposal, instead going ahead with the hearing.   

In addition to trying to force the town to celebrate “Pride” month, Borderland Pride is seeking monetary compensation in the order of $15,000 from the municipality, and $10,000 each from the mayor and two councillors who voted against the proclamation.  

LifeSiteNews reached out to McQuake for comment but did not hear back by time of publication. 

The town of Emo is not the only Canadian town to resist LGBT indoctrination. In February, residents of Westlock, Alberta, a small town of about 4,800 people, voted in favor of a bylaw to prohibit flying non-governmental flags from municipal flagpoles and painting crosswalks with any pattern other than the usual white-striped pattern.    

[CatOwner]

The leftists love to preach “live and let live”. It’s too bad they don’t even come close to following that.

[antidemoncrat]

“LGBT activists take Ontario town to Human Rights Tribunal for refusing to fly ‘Pride’ flag”

LGBT activists take Ontario town to Human Rights Tribunal for refusing to fly ‘FAG’ flag

There, fixed it

[Vaduz]

‘Pride’ flag = Fly Paper

They cling to number two

[Sam Gamgee]

They hate small towns just as much as they hate God.

[Sam Gamgee]

But you CAN dig up Republicans working hard to oppose Trump.

[Sam Gamgee]

They are 24/7 in rebellion to God.

[PGalt]

Evil collective.

[SaveFerris]

Looks like I saved a quote you made 5 years ago - I just ran across it looking for something else

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3759665/posts?page=19#14

Homosexuals are Satan’s henchmen. He has given this group great success and power in his attempt to bring down God’s dominion.

It’s almost a negative image of what God himself granted to His people, the Jews -—success and power to be used for good

Interesting that this good vs. evil initial skirmish is taking place in Israel..

God only knows-—literally-—what lies ahead.

14 posted on 6/26/2019, 3:31:09 PM by Walrus (”I can’t spare this (Trump). He fights.”)

[SaveFerris]

Nice catch

[SaveFerris]

[When God abandons a nation to depraved minds and it’s well and truly advanced expect more of this madness.]

[They are 24/7 in rebellion to God.]

And that's actually what this is all about. This is an in-the-streets, in-His-face, open-air rebellion against Almighty God. This puts nations in grave danger.

This tells me that the hour is very, very late. We're in the 11th hour, IMHO.



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“We just want to be left alone.”

Riiiiiigggght.

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They’re called “homoFascists” for a reason.

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These "tribunals" are stocked with the most vicious anti-christian leftist activists imaginable. Try to guess the outcomes.

The "tribunal" overseeing Colorado baker Jack Phillips' case was so hateful toward his beliefs, it resulted in a favorable outcome for Phillips through a Supreme Court case.

T.A. McMahon lays out the situation pretty starkly:

One Canadian columnist gives his perspective: “For more than twenty years…I have been writing against the human rights commissions, which have quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country. They are kangaroo courts, in which the defendant’s right to due process is withdrawn. They reach judgments on the basis of no fixed law. Moreover [in addition to heavy fines], ‘the process is the punishment’ in these star chambers—for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing.”

(https://www.thebereancall.org/content/homosexuality-and-reign-terror?sapurl=Lys5MjZkL2xiL2xpLyt3dm44dWs4P2JyYW5kaW5nPXRydWUmZW1iZWQ9dHJ1ZSZyZWNlbnRSb3V0ZT1hcHAud2ViLWFwcC5saWJyYXJ5Lmxpc3QmcmVjZW50Um91dGVTbHVnPSUyQnd2bjh1azg=)