Barry Artiste Op/Ed
So much for British Columbia being the epicenter of Peace and Love of Diversity, perhaps only when it suits them.
Yep, Hypocrisy rules, everything from Environmental TreeHugging, Gays, Multicultural Diversity, all well and good, until some take exception when it becomes personal or hits them in the pocketbook.
Recent events last week when a Gay man was violently assaulted in a GAY DISTRICT!!! certainly speaks Volumes on tolerance by Idiots who make it their Mission to seek and destroy those whose lifestyle of Thuggery conflicts with Gay Values.
Many TV shows portray Gay lifestyle in a positive way, yet many prefer to dwell on the sexual aspects instead of two people whose love is paramount. South Park, Queer Eye being positive ways to reach many viewers.
We have laws meant to protect everyone, yet many see it as a toothless when Courts only act is public outrage demands it, I surmise this is the way it is in schools, with parents pitted against students and teachers.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=de5f65ee-2b59-45ac-a43a-ada07857fd3d
Mother makes a plea to keep her gay son from harm
Class brings Susan Harman hope for basic human rights
Pete McMartin, Vancouver Sun columnist Published: Thursday, October 02, 2008
VANCOUVER – Here we are today, 40 years after the Stonewall riots, 35 years after the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders, 30 years after Denmark became the first government to recognize civil unions between gay and lesbian couples, and five years after Queer Eye For the Straight Guy made regular moisturizing acceptable to heterosexual males, and we here in B.C. are still agonizing over the issue of offering our schoolchildren courses that discuss, among other things, the idea that it’s unacceptable to beat the crap out of people whose sexual orientation may be different than their own.
I sometimes wonder if “B.C.” refers to the dinosaurs still roaming around out here.
This time, we must go a little east to find the Jurassic: In Abbotsford this week, the school board decided to withhold a senior-grade high school elective course entitled Social Justice 12, pending a review.
Social Justice 12, approved by the Ministry of Education just this August, is the first course in the province to include discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity, though sex isn’t its only focus.
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