Real Women of Canada: Vancouver Taxpayers Fund LGBTQ Political Agenda

REAL Women of Canada Media Release.  February 5, 2014.

It is unacceptable that the Vancouver City Council has forced the taxpayers to fund an expensive ($100,000 plus) junket for veteran gay activist Vancouver city councillor Tim Stevenson to lobby the International Olympic Committee in Russia. His objective is to impose what he calls Canada’s “social revolution” on the rest of the world.

LGBTQ special interest groups want “sexual orientation” explicitly included in the IOC Charter. But the Charter already recognizes that: Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind, in the Olympic spirit…. (Fundamental Principles of Olympism, Article 4). This is not inclusive enough for aggressive gay activism, especially if activists can obtain tax dollars to push their interests.

This is just another attention seeking ploy to further a controversial political agenda, an attempt to impose special interest concerns on countries such as Russia whose policy priorities highlight the family.  (more...)

Real Women of Canada: Vancouver Taxpayers Fund LGBTQ Political Agenda

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