| San Diego Teachers Blasted for Brining Kids to Gay Pride Event
(AgapePress) - Teachers at an elementary charter school in San Diego, California, are being condemned for bringing young children to participate in the city's "gay pride" parade last month. James Hartline, a former homosexual turned Christian activist, reports that teachers with the San Diego Cooperative Charter School brought children to the July 29 San Diego Pride Parade. A picture in the school newsletter shows several teachers and other individuals affiliated with the school marching in the parade. Hartline says the annual homosexual pride celebration in San Diego is "really just an advertisement for the triple-x gay pornography industry." Seeing children only six to twelve years old, walking with adults from the charter school in that parade was "just so heartbreaking," he says, because anyone who has never seen what these events are like "can just imagine the depravity that's in this parade." The Christian pro-family advocate finds it shocking and demoralizing that teachers or any other adults would bring innocent children around the goings on at the San Diego Pride event.
GENDER IS OVER-RATED
At a recent family affair, my philistine cousin was complaining about the gay sex shops in the West Village. He recently moved to New York and finds the openly gay culture "offensive" and "abrasive." Feeling the need to defend the gay community (and being bisexual myself), I said, "Intolerance is rooted in fear. Maybe you’re afraid that one day you’ll be attracted to a guy." His response: "If the guy had breasts and didn’t have a penis and looked like a woman, then maybe I would." He could have been describing a transsexual. "You see how gender is irrelevant?" I said. Ignoring my point, he reiterated his heterosexual pride: "I just want everyone to be like me. Fuck you." Of course I wanted to slap him, but I found enlightenment in his insulting comments. My cousin is an extreme example of the human tendency to perceive gender as a fixed state of being, attached to expected qualities and behaviors.
A queer's history of Ottawa Pride
Exploding from 50 participants to 50,000 per year, the story of Ottawa Pride illustrates that growing up ain't easy. What started as a scenic barbecue in 1986 has grown into a weeklong 100-odd-event juggernaut, a cornerstone of Ottawa's gay community.
While Ottawa's Pride may not be the million-go-go-boy march that other cities boast of, many people are proud that Ottawa's Pride Parade has remained accessible and community based. .
'Diversity' course for firemen who rebuffed gay event
Nine firemen have been disciplined after refusing to hand out leaflets at a "gay pride" march, and will be forced to undergo intensive "diversity training". Senior officers reported the men from the red watch crew at Cowcaddens fire station in Glasgow after the Pride Scotia march in the city in June. Some refused to attend the event on religious and moral grounds, while others said they would be embarrassed to man a stall in uniform, and did not regard the handing out of leaflets to homosexuals and lesbians as part of their core duties. .
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