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Canada’s Navy urges sailors to attend Gay Pride parades in uniform

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Royal Canadian Navy commander Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd urged sailors last week to attend "Pride" events in uniform without any special permission to show that the Navy is "diverse" and "inclusive." "In an effort to epitomize diversity and inclusion," Lloyd wrote in his directives, "the (Navy) encourages attendance to Pride events and authorizes the wear of uniform to participate in or attend the parade." The Navy commander said that effective immediately, Navy personnel no longer had to seek permission in order to wear their uniforms in homosexual "Pride" parades. Lloyd marched in last year's Pride Parade in Toronto . He told  Canadian Press that he issued the directives after meeting with members of the LGBTQ community , who complained to him about Navy members needing permission to wear their uniforms in Pride Parades . "They were speaking to the fact that you needed chain-of-command approval in orde...

Canadian Navy flies gay ‘Pride’ flag - and this Christian sailor isn’t happy, at all

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Last year , I wrote a column  detailing the secular progressive strategy to push Christians out of the public square: Two of Canada ’s three major political parties have demanded that all of their members support abortion on demand. Law societies across Canada are stating that they will refuse to recognize lawyers coming from Christian universities, since such lawyers must obviously be homophobic. Doctors are being told that they must refer for abortion and assisted suicide. It seems as if  every day there’s another story  about a gay couple suing a school or a teacher or a university instructor, appalled that there are still people who walk and talk that do not agree with them. "Had I remained, I would have discovered that one of my tasks for that morning would have been to participate in the raising of the Pride flag over our unit - in some cases, higher than the Canadian flag . Completely unaware of what would happen, I would have been forced into a ...