It's been about a year since I first started writing about Andrew Scheer's relationship with the Alliance MP Larry Spencer, a man so homophobic he wanted to jail LGBT Canadians.It hasn't been easy trying to find out what Scheer did when he was Spencer's constituency secretary. Documents have disappeared, and most of
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Montreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s Big Religious Bigotry Problem
It's the one question Andrew Scheer would rather run away from than answer.For he knows that if Canadians ever learn the truth very few of them would vote for him.But his dark secret will not go away. And Michael Coren is the latest to ask this burning question.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer Is Exposed As An Anti-Gay Bigot. Again
It's called "conversion therapy" It's a pseudo scientific practice that uses high pressure psychological techniques to try to turn gay people into straight ones.Some call it "pray away the gay" because of the many religious fanatics who spend their time trying to "save" LGBT people from themselves.But in most cases what it
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Pathetic Non Apology Of The Homophobic Bigot Jason Kenney
It takes a certain kind of religious fanatic who would work hard to prevent gay people from visiting their dying lovers in hospital.It takes a monster to brag about it.But Jason Kenney did both.In the early 1990's he helped overturn a spousal rights law in San Francisco.In the year 2000,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Roy Moore: Another Homophobe Bites The Dust
I have always believed that in the sweaty core of every homophobic religious fanatic there lurks a monstrous pervert.And the case of Roy Moore, a Republican senatorial candidate in Alabama, only proves my point.Moore believes that the Bible not the U.S. constitution should guide the affairs of government. He believes that homosexuality should
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Hidden Story of the Anti-Gay Judge
For weeks I've been trying to warn everyone I know that Stephen Harper is now so desperate that he is planning to make bigotry his secret weapon in his election campaign.His sinister silence after the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report spoke volumes. Even as a torrent of hatred
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Hidden Story of the Anti-Gay Judge
The other day I wrote about how appalled I was to see that Stephen Harper, and his ghastly stooge Peter MacKay, had appointed an anti-gay judge. A law professor named an Ontario judge this week wrote two years ago for a conservative, U.S.-based institute that the legalization of same-sex marriage in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The War on Christmas is Over Somebody Tell Nina Grewal
Well I know it may be hard to believe, but it seems like that old Con favourite, the imaginary War on Christmas, is finally over.The Fox News nutbar Bill O'Reilly has declared victory. Again."I won the 'War on Christmas!'" he said. "I've been doing this for about 10 years and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rex Murphy: When a Pimp becomes a Pope
Lordy. I swear to Godzilla I didn't think it was possible. I really didn't believe you could be a pimp and a Pope at the same time.And the resident right-wing demagogue of the CBC's flagship news program.But Rex Murphy has proved me wrong.It turns out you can be a ghastly
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Wonderfully Amazing Victory of the Gay-Straight Alliance
They had to fight so hard for the right to set up Gay-Straight Alliance clubs in their schools. They had to battle ignorance and religious bigotry.They were called Nazis, forbidden by their school boards and their principals to use the word gay, or even draw the rainbow colours. But they never
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Quebec Charter and the Religion that Kills
I think I can safely say that in the icy heart of this Harperland winter, just about the last thing I want to think about, talk about, or write about is the Quebec's Secular Charter.I've written about it before, and no doubt I'll write about it again. But not tonight.Tonight I'll
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Gay Genius Alan Turing is Finally Pardoned
It's taken more than half a century of bigotry and prevarication, but the gay computer genius and war hero Alan Turing has finally been pardoned. Mathematician Alan Turing, who helped Britain win the Second World War by cracking Nazi Germany's "unbreakable" Enigma code, was granted a rare royal pardon on
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Sexual Orientation Deniers
It's a deeply disturbing story. A Toronto Star reporter goes undercover in a Toronto church and discovers a weird group of religious fanatics trying to "heal" gay people. Telling them there is no such thing as a gay person. God didn't make any.Telling them it's their fault or their parent's
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Downfall of DOMA and the Triumph of Love
I've been studiously trying to ignore anything that happens in the United States these days.Because it's summer, the place is a mad house, and if I need crazy I've got Harper eh?But I couldn't ignore the screams and the tears of joy of millions of gay Americans and their friends
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Bloody Battle for Gay Marriage in France
I can hardly believe what's been happening in France.Riot police battling homophobes, religious fanatics, and neo-Nazi groups. Gay people being attacked over their right to be married. In the streets of Paris, in the City of Love.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rehtaeh Parsons and the Bully Harper
It's hard to imagine a worse horror story. A young woman is sexually assaulted, and publicly humiliated.Her school does nothing. A police investigation goes nowhere. Then she is bullied, and then she kills herself. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Vatican and the Unholy Conclave
Well I see they have been filing into the Vatican getting ready to choose a new Pope.Dozens of old men in red beanies. And one in a fedora.But before they start voting they want to know what is the Vatican HIDING? Who's REALLY pulling the strings?And of course, knowing them eh? Who
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Bill Whatcott: A Horrible Bigot Gets Busted
He is one of the most grotesque bigots this country has ever seen.A former male prostitute, drug addict, and violent criminal who claims he found Jesus in jail.He has gone after gay people, Muslims, and the pro-choice movement in the most disgusting ways imaginable.In 2008 after Dr Morgentaler received the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Pope Benny and the Holy Hypocrites
Well as you know Pope Benny is heading off into the sunset, or into a former convent on the grounds of the Vatican.Leaving us to wonder whether his pooped mobile is a mere conduit to well deserved obscurity. Or his getaway car. The Vatican has attacked reports in the Italian media
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Pope Benny and the Face of Evil
Glory Hallelujah. I see that Pope Benny has decided to take early retirement. "After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the Pope said.Leaving us
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