by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite
For the past month, the Canadian media has been all-hands-on-deck to report on the various Pride festivities across the country. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal – every carnival got glowing coverage, with the indecorous reality that children are regularly exposed to adult nudity and exhibitionist sexual fetishism being studiously ignored.
But of course, LGBT activists are not satisfied with massive, government-funded LGBT events in Canada’s big cities. They want the small towns – especially those with more conservative populations – to join the party, too. By force, if necessary. Perhaps even preferably.
That is why, earlier this year, activists targeted the mayor and councilors of the tiny town of Emo, Ontario, demanding that an LGBT flag be flown (the city hall doesn’t even have a flagpole) and that a “Pride” proclamation be declared. The mayor ended up getting his bank account garnished after the Ontario Human Rights Commission fined him for declining the activist demands. The case is ongoing.