FIRST READING: Ontario town fined $10,000 for refusing to celebrate pride month

National Post ^ | 11 27 2024 | Tristin Hopper

[yesthatjallen]

An Ontario town has been fined $10,000 and its officials ordered to complete mandatory “human rights” training after it refused to celebrate Pride Month.

Emo is a township of about 1,300 people located in the far west of Ontario, along the border with Minnesota.

In a decision handed down last week, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruled that Emo, its mayor and two of its councillors had violated the Ontario Human Rights Code by refusing to proclaim June as “Pride Month.”

The town was also cited for failing to fly “an LGBTQ2 rainbow flag,” despite the fact that they don’t have an official flag pole.

The dispute began in 2020 when the township was approached by the group Borderland Pride with a written request to proclaim June as Pride Month.

Attached to the letter was a draft proclamation including clauses such as “pride is necessary to show community support and belonging for LGBTQ2 individuals” and “the diversity of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression represents a positive contribution to society.”

SNIP

[SkyDancer]

They get a whole month when veterans only get one day.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

And there is is. "Globo-homo," as some say, being enforced by mandate from "tribunals."

Romans 1 remains such a sticking point, that soon it too will be penalized. Tick tock.

[BradyLS]

“The floggings will continue until morale improves…”

[cgbg]

Leftists will never give up on this issue.

We must crush them with it.

[bk1000]

You can have human rights.
You cannot have: gay rights, women’s rights, trans rights, minority rights.
Never a word…not one word on men’s rights.
Nobody gets their own special “rights”.

[Sacajaweau]

Ridiculous...

[j.havenfarm]

I WISH they had a month. Instead they have around 124 days. That’s right- we’re meant to celebrate them more than a third of the year
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_awareness_periods#Internationally_recognized

[wildcard_redneck]

Canada is no longer an ally to America, it has descended into totalitarianism and needs to be taken to the woodshed for a heaping helping of boot salad. For those unaware of the meaning of "boot salad," it is Texas slang for a group of boot-wearing men doing the good work of kicking in the teeth of a jackass.

[cgbg]

The left gives us no choice—we crush them or they crush us.

There is no middle ground.

[sima_yi]

This is from the Babylon Bee, right?

[CodeToad]

Next, the town citizen have not committed to acts of homosexuality and will be jailed.

Liberalism: Whatever is not mandatory is prohibited.

[From The Deer Stand]

I’m waiting for national Heterosexual Pride Month. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.

[HYPOCRACY]

The Mayor of Emo

[Raycpa]

8 dollars per person. Good deal. Probably save on police overtime too.

[SaxxonWoods]

Unincorporate the town, no govt to fine.

[JBW1949]

The citizens of Emo say we are proud that we do not celebrate “Pride” month and we do not fly a “Rainbow Flag”...

We do have our pride, you know....

[JBW1949]

The citizens of Emo say we are proud that we do not celebrate “Pride” month and we do not fly a “Rainbow Flag”...

We do have our pride, you know....

[SaveFerris]

(In a decision handed down last week, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ruled that Emo, its mayor and two of its councillors had violated the Ontario Human Rights Code by refusing to proclaim June as “Pride Month.”)

There are Godless Reprobate goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐 in leadership positions destroying Western society by rebellion against Almighty God

God bless those folks in Emo

There is a determined effort to normalize this all over the world 🌏🌎🌍.
I am encouraging people not to attend nor support this stuff. 

Just like those blindly following a false prophet
preaching a 'post-Christian' America



The apostasy and the Days of Lot are upon us.

As prophesied by Jesus Christ Himself.

Do NO harm, Christians, but reject this Godless Reprobate Agenda.
(For the thread)

[econjack]

I would counter-sue on the grounds that the straight community is being marginalized by the group. If I lived in Emo, I’d send in a petition that required recognition for Black Fly Month to the city council.