Toronto school trustee called ‘homophobic’ for questioning nudity at ‘family friendly’ Pride parade

lifesitenews.com ^ | 02/17/2014 | PETER BAKLINSKI

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Homosexual activists have slammed him as an ‘outrageous bigot,’ but Toronto District School Board trustee Sam Sotiropoulos says that he’s just concerned about children viewing illegal public nudity at the city’s annual Pride parade.

Sotiropoulos created a firestorm on Twitter last week after he tweeted the Toronto Police force asking if it would enforce Canadian law against public nudity.

“As #TDSB participation raises questions of age-appropriateness, do you enforce Canada's public nudity laws at Pride?” he asked.

Sotiropoulos, who says he has nothing against “LGBTQ” people and says he would attend the Pride parade if invited, was immediately accused on twitter of insulting and hating gays and was labeled “homophobic.”

Under Canada’s Criminal Code it is illegal to be nude in a “public place.” Section 174 states that a person who is “so clad as to offend against public decency or order” is “guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.”

Sotiropoulos says that city officials have a double standard when it comes to nudity at the Pride parade.

Sotiropoulos said as a TDSB trustee, he has no problem with the board promoting the Pride parade. He agrees with the “very nature of the parade,” saying that the TDSB having a float in the parade is “part of our social justice piece.”

Sotiropoulos said that he does not understand “how being naked [in public] is part of being gay. I get stuck on that question. Why is that a necessary element to parade naked in the streets of Toronto to express what? I’m not sure, except for the flouting of the laws of this country.”

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Too bad there weren't a few watching the parade who brought some peashooters with them. The naked homos marching down the street deserved a fusillade of pellets bombarding their hideous backsides.

And these are people claiming they're "just like us"....they have the same values they claim. Alright, what org. do know of or belong to that has its members (literally) prance down public streets in the raw? I suspect nobody does that. Nobody who's not a pervert.

[Rich21IE]

And the wages of sin are..............

[SecondAmendment]

> Do you ever have discussions with tech workers ..

I go there to attend technical conferences, so there are many other non-Bay area attendees as well, and to be honest, we don't discuss much of anything besides tech.

I will say that in general, tech workers tend to be young, and thus fall into Winston Churchill's characterization of politically foolish.