And here come the gays!!!!!

As if they were actual human beings and had brains of their own, the gay community has had a big couple of months in the world, especially here in North America. Brent Sopel (known for being the ugliest fucking hockey

player of all time)  and his Chicago Blackhawk teammates brought the Stanley Cup to the Chicago pride parade, to celebrate with thousands– a tribute to Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke’s son who was openly gay and tragically passed away last year. Brian had become an advocate for his son and even marched in Toronto’s pride parade alongside him.

Iceland officially legalized gay marriage and Iceland’s prime minister took the opportunity to put a rock on her woman, becoming the world’s first head of government to enter a gay marriage.

And then this weekend, Toronto had millions of gays flock to its downtown core, in what is one of the biggest pride parades in the world. Personally, as big as an advocate as I am for Gay Marriage, I’m not sure I

could actually sit through an entire pride parade (that holds nothing back in terms of skin, costumes and male genitalia) but even the most impotent Conservative must’ve enjoyed seeing it take place as opposed to angry protestors setting cars on fire.

However, it wasn’t all rainbows and matching pink stockings for the gay community, as the release of 8: The Mormon Proposition came out, a documentary that unapologetically outlines the Mormon Church’s role in (as

the film contends, orchestrating) the Proposition 8 campaign in California in 2008 — the infamous piece of legislation that banned gay marriage in the state.

Millions upon millions of dollars were given by the church in this “holy” fight that has helped the Mormon church in its chase to become the religion in North America most removed from common sense, reality and understanding civilization in the 20th century. Although not perfect, this film does a great job of making your blood boil, and makes you wonder how a church and its idiotic leaders can get away with the bigotry and intolerance it does. It also causes a tough debate between which leader can say the dumbest fucking thing imaginable, between the leader of the Mormon Church calling it’s members an “army” against gay marriage, or the Pope deeming the biggest threat to the world to be gay marriage.

So much progress made for one side, while members of the other side refuse to even fucking listen. In North America, the majority of the opposition’s views to gay marriage have become nothing short of repetitive, tiresome and in general just “fucking stupid.” Most of this opposition stems purely from religion and ignorance towards other people’s culture.

“The sanctity of marriage” is a popular buzz word for these people, which is purely ironic coming from a continent in which some of the most popular shows are the Bachelor, Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire, Rock of Love, and who wants to get Aids from Flava Flav. As well, the sanctity of marriage argument pretty much goes out the window when it’s coming from a country that is currently hitting at over a 50% divorce rate. And yet people still like to loosely use the phrase “It’s a threat to the American family,” as if somehow there was a KKK of Gay banditos running around suburban neighbourhoods looking to turn young Johny and Tommy away from idolizing their favourite football players and into cock hungry, manic depressives.

It’s time to start fighting back against intolerance and bigotry showed towards the gay community. Any slur against gay men or women, should be viewed in the same context were it one against blacks, jews or females. It’s time

to cut words like “faggot”, “homo” and being “gay”, out of our everyday vocabulary.  Canada has already begun to separate itself on this issue from America with our legalization of gay marriage, but we need to continue to be an example to the rest of the world as a country with rich history in welcoming other cultures.