A town in Canada has been hit with a fine for failing to celebrate LGBT “Pride Month.”
Officials in Emo, Ontario have been accused of “violating human rights” and slapped with a $10,000 fine.
Emo is a township of about 1,300 people located in the far west of Ontario, along the border with Minnesota.
For not celebrating the alternative lifestyle choices being promoted, the town has been ordered by a “human rights” court to pay an LGBT activist group $10,000.
The fine included $5,000 from the mayor’s personal bank account.
The town was also cited for failing to fly “an LGBTQ2 rainbow flag.”
However, the town doesn’t have an official flag pole.
A report from Not the Bee explained the LGBT members of Borderland Pride had told the Emo officials to proclaim June 2020 as “Pride Month.”
In a letter to officials, the LGBT group demanded that the town fly a rainbow flag for a week.
Attached to the letter was a draft proclamation including clauses such as “pride is necessary to show community support and belonging for LGBTQ2 individuals.”
“The diversity of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression represents a positive contribution to society,” the proclamation declared.
Emo was also asked to fly an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag for a week of your choosing.”
Borderland Pride then asked Emo to “email us a copy of your proclamation or resolution once adopted and signed.”
However, the town council and mayor did not take up the campaign.
In response, the organization filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Council.
They reported that members of Borderland Pride were “injured” by the town’s lack of cooperation.
“The tribunal, whose rulings are legally binding, has determined that the township must pay Borderland Pride $10,000 and Emo Mayor Harold McQuaker has to provide the group with $5,000 from his personal finances,” the report said.
The report continued:
“Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal (an Orwellian sounding group if there ever was one) believes that LGBT people have the human right to a whole month celebrating their sex lives, and if a tiny town doesn’t agree they have to pay a fine to an LGBT rights group and extort their mayor to pay half.”
The LGBT activists claimed the town’s action was discriminatory.
The claim of discrimination ultimately hinged on a single line uttered by Emo Mayor Harold McQuaker.
When the proclamation came up for consideration, McQuaker was heard to say in a recording of the meeting:
“There’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin … there’s no flags being flown for the straight people.”
As Human Rights Tribunal vice-chair Karen Dawson wrote in her decision:
“I find this remark was demeaning and disparaging of the LGBTQ2 community of which Borderland Pride is a member and therefore constituted discrimination under the Code.”
Dawson also ruled that given the “close proximity” of McQuaker’s comment to his nay vote — that too “constituted discrimination under the Code.”
The five days of hearings into the case would also include Emily Saewyc.
Saewyc, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing, was cited as “an expert on the LGBTQ2 community.”
“Dr. Saewyc testified that one of the ways that negative speech contributes to harms is through tacitly encouraging others to imitate that discriminatory speech,” read the decision.
The decision cited Saewyc’s claim that President Donald Trump inspires “hate and violence” against the LGBTQ community.
The group’s members demanded:
“We’re entitled to treatment without discrimination when we try to seek services from our local government.”
Town officials also were ordered to take part in an LGBT indoctrination course.
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