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City of Toronto hopes to set record with 200 gay ‘weddings’ during World Pride

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TORONTO, May 7, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Toronto’s deputy mayor has announced that the city is hoping to break a world record by staging a large-scale same-sex "marriage" ceremony during the World Pride event in June. Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly and Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam hope that 200 homosexual couples will sign up to take part in the stunt, to take place at Toronto's Casa Loma on June 26. Current record-holder Rio de Janeiro held 130 same-sex "marriages" in December. Casa Loma “We’re inviting all LGBTQ and two-spirited couples from across the world, in love and commitment, to get married here in the beautiful grounds of historic Casa Loma, as part of World Pride’s celebrations,” Kelly said at a press conference on Monday. Wong-Tam, the only openly lesbian member of council, applauded Kelly's support for the "wedding" and the homosexual community. "We've made international headlines perhaps for the wrong reasons,

School board protests Catholic teachers union’s decision to march in Gay immoral sinful Pride

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The Ontario English Catholic Teacher’s Association ’s decision to march in the upcoming World Pride parade in Toronto has outraged the trustees with at least one Ontario school board.  This past Tuesday trustees with the York Catholic District School Board , situated just north of Toronto, passed a motion to send a letter to OECTA asking them to change their minds and withdraw from the event.  The York board is the first Ontario Catholic school board to make a public statement against the decision by OECTA to participate in the pride parade, known for its displays of full nudity, simulated sex acts, sadomasochism, and sexual bondage.  The motion proposed by Trustee Cathy Ferlisi and seconded by Trustee Teresa Ciaravella directs that a letter to be written to OECTA asking their membership not to participate in the parade, because it would send the wrong message to students about what the Catholic Church teaches on marriage and family.  According to the statement, parti

School Board backs public nudity at Homosexual Pride parade

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In a move that has outraged many parents, last Wednesday the Toronto District School Board voted 16-6 against asking the City of Toronto to uphold Canadian nudity laws at the World Pride parade on June 29. Every year the parade includes marchers in various objectionable sexualized  garb , such as sadomasochistic clothing, as well as topless women, and even full frontal nudity. The Toronto District School Board float in the Pride parade. TDSB trustee Sam Sotiropoulos had presented a motion asking the Board to  write  an official letter to the mayor and Toronto City Council to ask “whether or not the public nudity law of Canada will be upheld and enforced at future Pride events in which the TDSB participates.” His motion was decisively defeated by the school board , which did not debate the matter, but rather forced a snap vote on it. The motion’s failure was met with cheers from gathered parade supporters. Instead, a  motion  of support for the Parade was passed.

Ontario Catholic teachers association to march in gay WorldPride parade in Toronto

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TORONTO, March 11, 2014  The Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association took another step in its promotion of the homosexual agenda Monday as it announced it would march in Toronto ’s WorldPride parade on June 29. The association, which represents the province’s 45,000 teachers and plays a large role in their professional and spiritual formation, passed a motion at its AGM this weekend to organize a delegation for the homosexual activist event. “Registering for, and marching in, the World Pride Parade is a visible symbol of solidarity with one of the most marginalized groups in the Catholic community,” reads a “rationale” attached to the motion, which required a simple majority to pass. Though it’s often billed as “family friendly,” Toronto Pride is known for its displays of full frontal nudity, simulated sex acts, sadomasochism, and sexual bondage. Jack Fonseca, a spokesman for Campaign Life Catholics, said the decision is an “all out rebellion against the Catholi

‘Let’s get naked this Pride’: Gay editor defends nudity at Toronto’s ‘family friendly’ parade

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TORONTO, February 26, 2014  – An editor at Canada ’s leading homosexual news agency has defended nudity at Toronto ’s annual Pride parade, which is billed as a “family friendly” event. It’s just “queer people celebrating their sexuality,” wrote Danny Glenwright, managing editor at  Xtra , last week in a piece titled “ Let's get naked this Pride .” A drag queen at Ottawa's Capital Pride in 2013. Glenwright defended exposing the public to what he called “our wanton sexuality and hedonism” as par for the course of expanding gay rights. “It’s what we do with our naked bodies that kept us gays down for so long,” he wrote. Glenwright mockingly suggested that those who have a problem with nakedness at the parade can “stay home” with their children and watch on TV “more palatable aspects of our world” such as “priests raping children.” “I prefer to leave that all behind for a few hours on Pride and head downtown to celebrate gay rights and gay sex — and to protest th

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he’ll never attend Pride parade: ‘I’m not going to change the way I am’

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TORONTO, February 6, 2014  – As the city of Toronto prepares to host World Pride this June, the city’s mayor has stated that on principle he will not be attending. “I’m not going to go to the Pride parade ,” Mayor Rob Ford said at a candidates’ forum for the 2014 mayoral election Wednesday. Amidst catcalls, he continued: “I’ve never been to a Pride parade. I can’t change who I am.” Toronto Mayor Rob Ford While Ford has never attended a pride parade in all his years as mayor, this is the first time that he has admitted that he stays away on principle. In previous years , he has said he could not attend because of a family tradition of spending that weekend at their cottage. Councillor Shelley Carroll accused the mayor of “thinly veiled homophobia” for avoiding Pride and compared him to Russian president Vladimir Putin , calling the mayor’s refusal “an international problem.” “It’s very similar to the embarrassment that Putin is causing his nation and the international hatred towar