Religious zealots like the Charles McVetys of this world are getting more certifiable by the day as they pervert religion further. Well, now some of these zealots have really outdone themselves this time around as they are opposing an anti-bullying bill tabled by the McGuinty government, as they think it’s
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Montreal Simon: The Religious Bullies Go After Gay Kids
Don’t you just love crazy religion? They are always attacking each other, claiming that only their god is the real one. Spewing gibberish and hate out of every orifice, or blowing up their rivals. But nothing can bring them together as quickly as a chance to attack gay kids. Christian,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day. – Toby Sanger posts about the OECD’s findings on inequality in Canada, with this particularly jumping out as to how much less progressive our tax system is now than it was two decades ago: Taxes and benefits play a smaller role in reducing inequality
Continue readingMontreal Simon: If You Want to Know What Bullying Feels Like…
You can read this story. What world is this that playgrounds have become killing grounds? The murder of hope, love, creativity, passion, ingenuity, individually. This goes unpunished. Unnoticed. Why? When these die, our very person dies. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s when people don’t care about bullying. I
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Has the War on Bullying Finally Begun?
It’s taken a lot of dead Canadian kids. Kids like Marjorie Raymond. “I have a hard time leaving this world,” she wrote her suicide letter, “but I think it will be for a better world.” But it looks as if the Great War on Bullying has finally begun. McGuinty said school
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Lady Gaga’s Message to a Canadian School
In a country where bullying is an epidemic, and almost nothing is being done to stop it, isn’t it great to know that at least Lady Gaga cares. Too bad she couldn’t send a message to Jamie Hubley and his school in Ottawa. Before he committed suicide. Because after Jamey Rodemeyer
Continue reading350 or bust: Banned On The Hill: Franke James Takes Her Art To Ottawa
We’ve met Franke James, a Canadian visual artist, on 350orbust before. I discuss the Harper government’s interference with a big career opportunity for her, a European art tour, in these posts: Dear Prime Minister Harper: Please Stop Blacklisting Environmental Artists and Scientists and Is The Kremlin Now In Charge? Harper
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bully Awareness Week and the Dead Kids
It’s Bully Awareness Week, and for kids in Canada it couldn’t have come at a better time. After a horrifying streak of bullying related suicides. Mitchell Wilson, bullied to death because he had muscular dystrophy. The bullying that her grandson suffered at his school, Westcreek Public School in Pickering, led the
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Occupy Wall Street security guard calls gay veteran a "faggot"
In the aftermath of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s order to remove all Occupy Wall Street protestors and their belongings from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, gay videographer and six year US Army disabled veteran, Joey Boots, went to film the site and encountered a security guard working for the
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Québec Commits $7M To Fight Homophobic Bullying
How about I share some encouraging news for a change? The Québec government has officially launched their Lutte contre l’homophobie, a five-year program to combat homophobic bullying and discrimination. The program, which was announced in 2008 but came into effect last month, has seven million dollars allocated toward over 60 anti-homophobia measures, including support for independent […]
Continue reading“Moral convictions”, Republicans and bullying
You gotta love Republicans. In Michigan, the Republican-heavy Senate has passed a new anti-bullying bill that promotes bullying by giving perpetrators the ‘moral conviction’ right to bully on behalf of their religion. In effect, bullying …
Continue readinggay persons of color: Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson gets it right, sort of…
In an interview for Pridesource.com, Canadian comedian Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall fame challenged the notion of life getting better for gay teens when they enter adulthood, i.e. the central message of the It Gets Better campaign started by Dan …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When Babies Help Fight Bullying
As you know, I don’t think we’re doing enough to fight bullying in Canada. Even though it’s terrorizing children, and corrupting our culture, from sports to politics.And I wish there were more anti-bullying programs in our schools, and ads on TV,…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Agreed, Rick Mercer, gay public figures need to step forward
Otherwise, don’t become a public figure if you don’t want the public to know who you really are.And for those of you who read the editorial from Friday’s The Globe and Mail entitled, “No, Rick Mercer, not all gay public figures need to step forwar…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Have You Ever Seen a Gay Kid Being Attacked?
Just for being gay. Oh well. Now you can…Wasn’t that brutal? And isn’t this horrible?The teenager’s mother adds that no one did anything — everyone stood around and watched. Only one person took any action — which was to record this vid…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Canada and the Bully Nation
I don’t know why Canada is such a bully nation. What I do know is that it infects our country like syphilis, from our Parliament, to our hockey rinks, to our schools.A 15-year-old hockey player in Manitoba was forced to parade around the dressing room …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Selley On The Tory’s Anti-Gay Bullying Vid: The Short Version
If you see an pig that is trying to dance, don’t criticize it for dancing poorly. The attempt should be enough.And there’s something to that.But, again, if this had been one of the Torys usual video productions–an attack ad smeari…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jamie Hubley, the Cons, and the Cycle of Hate
It’s been about a week since Jamie Hubley killed himself. And although for a while I was so sad I could hardly write about this tragedy, now I’m feeling better.Because now I’ve seen how many young Canadians have been moved to action.I have been en…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Laughable Canadian Conservatives It Gets Better video
The ruling Canadian Conservative government managed to turn the It Gets Better project into a meaningless, insincere folly last Thursday when they released their own version of the campaign in the wake of the suicide of Ottawa teen Jamie Hubley, an ope…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany: 1,000 posts later…
Yup, this is my 1,001st post on this blog. Kind of a milestone, don’t you think? Or maybe a millstone if you think that most of what I write is crap! How many words might that be? Figger an average of 300 words of so per post… 300,000ish… lotsa keystrokes. Yay, me Anyhow, I do […]
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