{"id":43309,"date":"2024-11-21T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opinionatedbastard2021.com\/?p=43309"},"modified":"2024-11-21T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:23:08","slug":"ontario-township-to-pay-damages-for-refusing-to-declare-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opinionatedbastard2021.com\/2024\/11\/21\/ontario-township-to-pay-damages-for-refusing-to-declare-pride-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario – Township To pay Damages For Refusing To Declare Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"title details-title\">Township to pay damages for refusing to declare Pride month<\/h1>\n<p>The\u00a0Township of Emo will have to pay damages after refusing\u00a0to proclaim Pride Month.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Borderland Pride requested the township declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week.<\/p>\n<p>The township refused that request\u00a0and now the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ruled that the refusal\u00a0was discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0decision released\u00a0Wednesday, the tribunal awarded\u00a0$15,000 in compensation to Borderland Pride for “injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect.”<\/p>\n<p>The township will have to pay $10,000 of that amount.\u00a0Emo mayor Harold McQuaker is personally responsible for the remaining $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal also ordered\u00a0McQuaker and the township’s current chief administrative officer to complete human rights training within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal declined, however, to order the township to make any Pride Month proclamations either retroactively or going forward. – SNnewswatch.com<\/p>\n<p>article website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snnewswatch.com\/local-news\/township-to-pay-damages-for-refusing-to-declare-pride-month-9840985?utm_source=tbnewswatch.com&utm_campaign=tbnewswatch.com%3A%20outbound&utm_medium=referral\">here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What?\u00a0 Having a Pride month is a human right?\u00a0 Since when? How?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 How is this discriminatory?\u00a0 There are no declared months for heterosexuals.\u00a0 I believe, in order to discriminate, you must favour one over another based on race, religion, gender etc. I do not see that here.\u00a0 What I see here is the exact opposite. I see the township not favouring one community over another. Hetro Month…….a month to celebrate being heterosexual….Have a parade. What would that flag look like?\u00a0 Does not matter. Just demand that the local government hoist that flag for a week.\u00a0 If they won’t then take them to the Human Rights Tribunal.\u00a0 Get $15,000.\u00a0 Maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>I have always believed that human rights are rights that applies to everyone. Basic. Pride month is not that.<\/p>\n<p>The Pride organizations can have their Pride activities and celebrations without having local governments making any declaration whatsoever.\u00a0 Nobody is stopping them in Emo. Have a parade. Have a dance.\u00a0 Picnic. Nobody is stopping them.<\/p>\n<p>These types of decisions are just one of the reasons that politically, countries are becoming more and more socially and fiscally conservative.\u00a0 People are fed up.\u00a0 You can see it in elections all over Europe and recently in the US.\u00a0 Canada is next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Township to pay damages for refusing to declare Pride month The\u00a0Township of Emo will have to pay damages after refusing\u00a0to proclaim Pride Month. In 2020, Borderland Pride requested the township declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week. 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