WorldPride 2014: Toronto taxpayers to double funding for ‘state-backed celebration of immoral homosexual nude parade
TORONTO, December 5, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Toronto Council may double its funding — to the tune of $280,000 at taxpayer’s expense — to Pride Toronto , organizer of the 2014 WorldPride event. Councillor Shelley Carroll told homosexual news service Xtra that the funding boost is included in the upcoming January budget under the city’s Major Cultural Organizations program. During budget committee meetings at the beginning of the month, no one disputed doling out more tax-generated funds for the WorldPride event, reported Xtra . “If this budget is adopted, [the funding] is adopted, too,” said Carroll. The funds will be on top of the $250,000 of public services - such as policing, garbage pick-up, and street cleaning - the event promoting the normalization-of-homosexuality receives each year. Pride Toronto executive director Kevin Beaulieu estimates the WorldPride budget around $4.5 million. According to Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam , t...