Give me ONE good reason to fund that crap.

Ahh, the ever tolerant left...

Well here is another Redneck out in the Boondocks who is tired of being called just about everything in the jack booted, fascist lefty dictionary and then told to cough up the dough to pay for these things.

Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC all a bunch of racist, rednecked, homophobes until it comes time to pay the transfer cheque then it's "we're all part of the great Canadian family..."

Time to go PH Harper or not.

Whoops... PM Harper or not

I for one am tired of funding the stupid whims of the Separatists in Quebec. Quebec it's time for you to get your secessionist leeching asses moving and separate from the ROC because no one gives a shit anymore. Get lost, scoot bye bye la maudit.

Osumashi, there is actually one, and only one good reason to fund this crap: kickbacks. Lots of juicy little contracts, one hand washing the other in that lovely, goooolden social grease that lubricates Liberal politic's slide along its well worn track, money. Money money money, my friends.

As in Toronto's recent adventure in Liberalism, one must ask, why the hell does it cost over a million dollars to have a bunch of semi-clad goofs walk down a public street? Kickbacks, obviously.

Naturally the people involved are upset that they aren't going to get their expected golden [money] shower this year. So, again naturally, they call up their local Useful Idiot(tm) in the MSM and engage in a nice little propaganda war.

As for the actual gay people who wanted to have a parade, I say go to it! Parade all you want. Have a freaky deaky festival of parading.

But -you- pay for it, eh? Leave my tax dollars out of it.

What was left out of the story of course, is that the concern arose because the Canada Day parade was not funded, whereas this other event was, IIRC

kkkkorrectly done. Simply beautiful. That's the way to go. I am learning too.

the "right" to be funded...

From what I read, this is a festival attended by over 55,000 people annually. They lost $155,000 in Federal funding. If the festival is that important to the people, couldn't they fork over $3 each to make up the short fall?

Also the "Marquee Tourism Events".....never heard of this event, so either it isn't "Marquee" or "Tourism" driven....it probably is an event. Let's look at Tall Ships in Halifax, PNE in Vancouver, Calgary Stampede in Calgary, CNE in Toronto, Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, Jazz Festivals in Montreal, Carnaval in Quebec City....these are "Marquee Tourism Events".

Ahhh the smell of Gay Pride... would you not be prouder if you could stage a parade without Government Funds in the middle of a recession?

Why not get your lazy gay asses off the bench and raise the rest of the money yourselves? I mean when our softball league needs money I do not write an article in the paper saying the current Government hates teenage girl softball players.

$155,000 would fund our league for 10 years, not one day where the only benefit is guys get to wear something pretty and women get to wear comfortable shoes. If you cannot get gay enough on 1.845 Million then you have a bigger problem than money.

I hate social special interest groups, money sucking wastes of taxpayer funds based on some false sense of entitlement because of "perceived" persecution.

Banning the parade would be political, not funding it would be fiscally prudent.

Phantom, why isn't there rioting in the streets? Gays are crying for any reason they can think of and politicians are making money off of our backs.
I call pig crap on the lot of them. Fire these people out of a cannon.

It makes a mess of the alliteration, but the Gazette is actually an Anglo newspaper.

How bout: "Squareheads Squeal for Sissy Subsidy"

Too wordy, you think?

Can someone tell me what "gays" are so proud of...other than their quilting abilities?

"Gazette Grumbles over Gay Grant"

Oh wait that misses the point.

just more birkenstocks at folkfests ?.

I heard the minister explaining that Quebec already has 42% of the festival funding. Ontario at 25% and that maybe some of the other provinces may what some of our own money too.

Has The Gazette sent the festival in question any of their money?

It is not the garrish that concerns some people. It is the bare-ish;)

We thought that was kind of illegal in public. No?

"The official version would be easier to swallow"

I bet it would be. I bet it would be.

Gaz Spaz as Parading Pansies sent Packing

Ok, I'll stop now.

$Billions & $Billions wasted very year for some happy day feelings.

Cut. Cut. Cut . . .

Come on now....calm down everyone. After all, the first thing that is taught is that they're entitled to their entitlements.

Every human being has a right to walk around with a limp wrist.

And they also have the right to pay for their own parade.

I worked in the restaurant industry in Toronto through the 80's and into the 90's. I had a lot of gay friends and acquaintances. Most of these folks hated the gay pride parade and the people in it. What they wanted was to be treated with respect and to be left alone. They wanted to be treated as people above all. Not "gay" people. They wanted to talk about writers, musicians, artists, chefs, lawyers etc. Not gay writers, gay musicians, etc. They just wanted to be in the main stream and carry on with life. Their sexuality didn't define them and they didn't want to force their sexuality on anybody else. Just be normal. The gay pride parade isn't normal and the people in it aren't normal.

More hate and vitriol spewed forth by SDA. Just a note, the Saskatchewan marriage commissioner who refused to marry same sex couples and consequently was fired, lost his appeal at the Human Rights Commission. I even doubt if do any better if he appeals to the Sask. Court of Appeal. Great, once in a while justice prevails.

That's gold phantom, gold!

"Confortable shoes" lol

Yes that's right "T" .... pointing out the arrogance and hypocrisy and idiocy of lefties is "Hate".

Out of your league T-wit!

gord @ 5:47

Does this mean that there are, to borrow from Ezra Levant, "Official Gays"? And that they, like other "Official Whatevers", have the ear of the government and do NOT represent the vast majority of the group they say they represent?

The left are in quite a blather, one of their members on the list of "Entitled" has been told NO. Saying no to liberal/socialist supremacist isn't acceptable, I'm sure they'll hold rallies and stuff espousing their usual non-tolerance.

T:

To paraphrase Ashleigh Brilliant, sometimes we need what only you can provide: your absence.

Kathryn said "Does this mean that there are, to borrow from Ezra Levant, "Official Gays"?

Could be. I wouldn't be surprised. The point I was trying to make was that some people are plumbers, bowlers, music lovers who happen to be gay. They don't want to be known as gay plumbers or gay bowlers. Being gay is their personal life. I do the same cringe when someone tells me they are gay that I do when someones asks me if I've heard the word of God. It means there is tons of baggage coming that I really don't want to know about.

Reminds me of the New York St Pats Parade. You can march in it if you're Irish and your gay. They just don't want gay Irish in the parade. It's more than just semantics.

Name calling?
What name calling?

"Today I am proud to be a frog." -

Jean Chretien at the 1981 Constitutional signing.

Being proud isn't about flaunting your "ways" in everyone's faces, that's called arrogance. It would be appropriate to have that word substituted in for "pride".

Even though I don't agree with homosexuality I never use to have a problem with gay people themselves, but in the last few years I have been seeing more and more actions taken from the gay community that I frankly could never endorse any of their causes or activities.

I'm heterosexual. I'm not "proud" of it, I just am. I honestly don't feel the need to go around yelling about my orientation into peoples faces.

Take it from a person who is comfortable with his being, "YOU BRING THE SHIT STORM DOWN ON YOURSELVES!!!"

BTW, them naked guys are probably dissappointed that they didn't get thrown in the slammer for a night. It would have been heaven for them to be the b!#ch for a night.

"Today I am proud to be a frog." -
~Jean Chretien at the 1981 Constitutional signing.

Just as well.
The little Liar from Shawinigan was never a Prince.

Just a note, the Saskatchewan marriage commissioner who refused to marry same sex couples and consequently was fired, lost his appeal at the Human Rights Commission.

T is for troll...that's good enough for me!

T as a Saskatchewanian the HRC should be abolished immediately. It is a farce and blot on a free and democratic society. HRC across the country are a horrendous infringement on the rights of people to speak and act as they believe appropriate. Maybe it's time for Brad Wall to recognize what a blot the HRC is and end this taxpayer witch hunter. The Marriage Commissioner should received government funding to appeal this farce all the way to Supreme Court of Canada if necessary. However, the SCC is such a pit of left wing bias that might be bootless enterprise.

The poor dears can't figure out how to make do on 92.25% of their budget. In a down economy. Get real.

Where do we get our $155,000 for the Knuckledraggers Pride Parade?

The town of Cayuga Ontario just celebrated its 150th anniversary of incorporation. The events went on for a whole week. There was a car show, a parade, a soap box derby, dinners, church services, craft show, carnival rides, fireworks, all kinds of things. For a week.

I doubt they spent a million dollars. I strongly doubt it.

But Gay Pride can't put on a parade for less than a million bucks? And I'm a racist/bigot/homophobe spewing forth hate and vitriol for saying "kickback"?

Kkkome on trolls, you can do better eh?

Fuming Fruits Feel Funding Fragged For Fed Fobia

Find a corporate sponsor for your parade. And stop whining.

"Find a corporate sponsor for your parade. And stop whining"

Jokes come on down! :)

Petulantly ..... Piling on.....

Peavish Pepsis Piqued over Poofter Probity...?

How about: Homo Hissy Over Halted Handout

Weiner Waggers Whine Without Wasting Wealth

"Rednecks" !?
Uh ya sure, Who do I make the cheque out to?

Not.

Querulous Queers Query Questionable Queens Quandams

Where do we get our $155,000 for the Knuckledraggers Pride Parade?


Sorry Fritz, can't use the term Knuckledragger any more, it's become politically incorrect. The current accepted term is "mouth breather".

this is great news...once again, SH can kiss goodbye to any seats in Quebec and any hope of ever getting a majority. When he fails yet again to secure a majority, he will be hung by the Tories who remain in the "Conservative" party and are at this very moment plotting his demise.

thus, Canada's brief experiment with letting some of the prairie folk run the show for a while will come to its welcome close.

Fanciful Faggots in Freak out Frenzy over Federal Funding Freeze.

Do gay Biker "riders" get funding in Qubec?

Frenetic Fruits Flip Furiously From Fizzled Funding

chumpdawg, don't ever think Harper had a chance at getting seats in Quebec. The gains made in his first minority win were a backlash against the Liberals for Adscam. Harper's only chance is to win Ontario, and specifically, the 905 region.

In the context of thousands of government tax-funded grants to all and sundry, there is no particular reason to single out Gay Pride or any other specific event. The more principled approach is to cut off funding for everything all at once.

nv53:

The one difference that sets the gay pride parade apart is that it is NOT a family event, which is what it's advertised as being. It's too simple of a notion for people just to think it's an issue of bigotry.

What the Gazette and others don't understand is that people flaunting their junk down a street and performing sexual acts(simulated or not)with children watching is not an acceptable practice. I would like to know of other parades and events funded by government that do the same thing.

Yeah, it's singled out for a reason.

All the "redneck" comment did was say "game on" and underscore the sources ignorance.

However, I personally would gladly have all funding cut of to non-essential services and events. It would be like old times where sustenance had to be cultured, and doing things on a small scale had character and meaning.

High functioning autistics dressed in panties, and boostiers. Not high culture to me.....

Flustered Francophone Fairies Flail Furiously For Funding Furtherance.

Chumpdawg said: "once again, SH can kiss goodbye to any seats in Quebec and any hope of ever getting a majority."

Oh, I get it now. The principled thing to do is to use taxpayer dollars to BUY votes in Quebec.

Now why didn't I think of that?

We Rednecks should hold our own nationwide "pride parades", too.

Wouldn't that be fun, parading around in plaid flannel shirts, ballcaps, drinking beer and brewing tea, showing butt and boob cleavage, farting, burping and saying politically incorrect stuff, riding in the backs of HD diesel pickups with titty-girl silhouette mudflaps, riding ATVs, driving mud-caked Wranglers with extreme suspension tweaks, carrying our guns with pride... Who's up for it? Yeehaw!

Hey, can I ride shotgun with ya in your truck, Kate? What better way to make Warren Kateater insanely envious? Oh, wait... :)

Better yet, let me ride double with ya on your Yamaha to send a finally-totally-lost-it Warren to the loony bin, where he belongs... Poor Warren, has a little-boy crush on scary-rightie Katie but can never do anything about it...

is anyone getting tired of listening to pervs and devients whine about stuff? i wish they would go back in the closet and shut the door.

Hey Sentinel, one big drawback to your redneck parade idea, its really hard for us to find time since we're WORKING! And when we are not working, we are spending time trying to raise our kids right and trying to make a better life for them than we had all while trying to teach them right from wrong and having our wages stolen from us to fund things we find abhorent.

By the way, I've been checking out your site and I must say: SIMPLY AWESOME

Cromag Cons Can Queer Confab

Strathmore had the "Gay Rodeo" proving that rednecks and the other side can get along at least for a weekend.

no word on the gubmint grants.

So, hardboiled, the Conservatives finally act like conservatives and you are criticizing them for that, too?

Hmmmmmmmm.

The hardboiled troll exists to bring discord.

Fund your own god damn parade you self-righteous pouch garglers.