Rob Ford vs Homosexual Parade – Gun Control Activist Arrested
Rob Ford vs Homosexual Parade – Gun Control Activist Arrested
Rob Ford says Pride flag doesn’t represent all Canadians
Before he came out in an orange jersey dwarfed by a local-boy-turned-Denver Broncos’ offensive lineman but after a protest by teenagers who think he is a bad role model, Mayor Rob Ford continued his futile push to remove a gay Pride flag at city hall and replace it with a Canadian one.
The flag controversy erupted Friday, when the mayor found out that a rainbow-coloured flag had replaced a City of Toronto flag on a courtesy flagpole used to display a range of organizations and nations. The Pride flag was raised in solidarity with the LGBTQ community in Russia during the Olympics, at the request of a community group; Mayor Ford said it should be about patriotism and not someone’s sexual preference.
A Canadian flag was never taken down in this flap. In fact, there are several Canadian flags on display in Nathan Phillips Square.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/11/rob-ford-still-wants-pride-flag-taken-down-at-city-hall-despite-allegations-of-homophobia-against-mayor/
Gun Control Activist Arrested
In an incident seen by some as a bit of supreme irony, a local “gun control” proponent has been arrested on two felony charges for bringing a concealed handgun into a New York elementary school, causing “an hours long lockdown,” The Buffalo News reported Friday.
“Dwayne Ferguson … was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act, the state law that made carrying a gun on school property a felony,” the report explains. “He was among local activists who stood with Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes last year lobbying for a law that would make possessing a gun on school property a felony. Prior to New York State’s adoption of the SAFE Act last year, in response to the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, it was a long-established state law that guns could not be brought onto school property. The only difference was that the crime carried less punishment as a misdemeanor.”
http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-control-advocates-arrests-highlight-irony-and-hypocrisy