Here’s one you might have missed over Thanksgiving week, while you were gnawing on a turkey leg in commemoration of a holiday that began when a group of European settlers arrived in New England, some of the first among a wave of colonists in a centuries-long saga that would eventually see a nation established upon, among other things, the principles of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and independence from tyranny.
This one comes to us from Canada, where such inalienable rights are not enshrined in a Constitution, and are therefore regularly trampled upon.
The township of Emo, Ontario - originally settled in 1800 by colonists seeking individual freedom, current population 1,186 - has been ordered to cough up $15,000 in fines after a “human rights” tribunal found the town guilty of offending the Alphabet Mafia when it refused to proclaim Pride Month back in 2020.
Yep, that was the great crime: the town Emo and its whopping 540 households declined to proclaim “Pride Month,” and refused to fly a rainbow “Pride” flag above their town buildings for a week in June of 2020. For that great offense, the township is being forced to pay $10,000 to the gay rights group “Borderland Pride,” with Emo Mayor Harold McQuaker himself being made to shuck out another $5,000.
In addition to forking out the fine, McQuaker and the municipality’s Chief Administrative Officer will both be required to complete a "Human Rights 101" training course from the Ontario Human Rights Commission within 30 days.
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"The tribunal's decision affirms that. That is the important thing we were seeking here was validation that as 2SLGBTQA plus people, we're entitled to treatment without discrimination when we try to seek services from our local government,” Borderland Pride said in a statement following the decision.
Of course, they couldn’t say exactly how they were being discriminated against while seeking services, other than the fact that the town didn’t want to put up a spangly rainbow banner over the local township facilities.
Canada-based CBC News reports:
[Attorney and Borderland Pride board member Doug] Judson said one of the messages it sends to other townships and municipalities is that Pride needs to be in the smallest and most remote communities just as it is in larger cities, and in some of the places "where it can be really hard to help people understand why it's so important.”
Translation? We’re gonna shove this trash down your throat whether you like it or not, and there’s nowhere you can go to get away from it.
“Inclusion” and “tolerance” on full display, right under a bully-mandated rainbow flag.
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