Say NO to a "Gay" Loonie! | CizenGO

Contents:

• GAY PRICE
• CANADA RELEAS 'GAY CO' TO CELEBRATE LGBTQ2 ANNIVERSARY, CHRISTIANS CALL IT 'AN AFONT TO OUR GOD'
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS LGBT MUNY — AND OUTRAG SOCIAL NSERVATIV
• SAY NO TO A "GAY" LOONIE!

GAY PRICE

The Royal Canadian Mt released a memorative one-dollar (monly lled the “loonie”) Tuday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the partial crimalizatn of homosexualy the untry.

CANADA RELEAS 'GAY CO' TO CELEBRATE LGBTQ2 ANNIVERSARY, CHRISTIANS CALL IT 'AN AFONT TO OUR GOD'

While many Canadians are celebratg the ’s but, not all — cludg some LGBTQ rights supporters — are pleased."The Mt plays a signifint role celebratg Canada's culture, history and valu through s,” Marie Lemay, print and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mt, said a statement.“Markg 50 years sce a landmark cisn that began a procs of legal reforms to regnize the rights of LGBTQ2 Canadians is a powerful way to regnize Canada's profound belief equaly and cln," she ntued, addg "2" to LGBTQ for "two spir," an digeno ncept that isn’t pletely translatable to the Wtern lexin of genr and sexual orientatn.In 1969, Canada’s Parliament passed legislatn that partially crimalized homosexual activy, specifilly activy nducted private between two dividuals 21 and olr. Digned by Vanuver-based artist Joe Average, the is a “stylized celebratn of equaly viewed through an LGBTQ2 perspective.” The image of two overlappg fac, he add, “reflects genr fluidy and the spectm of genrs and is left open to terpretatn: They may belong to two dividuals or they may reprent different aspects of one's inty.”Randy Boissonnlt, a special adviser to Prime Mister Jt T on LGBTQ issu, said the ’s release is an important day for all Canadians."It is an opportuny to reflect on a landmark event our untry's history, and a remr of the progrs still to be ma as we work toward cln and equaly for all LGBTQ2 Canadians,” he said.Helen Kennedy, executive director of Egale Canada, a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and two-spir advocy group, told NBC News that the marks “a particular tone regnn of LGBTQ2 people Canada,” and lled “hugely signifint and somethg that we should be proud of.”“It's a really good thg to show other parts of the world we celebrate diversy and queerns Canada, and ’s somethg that should be appld,” Kennedy said.

“There are 70 untri that crimalize homosexualy, and I’m sure the activists those untri would love to have basic regnn of their existence.”CRITICISM ALL AROUNDThe troductn of the Equaly , however, is not whout cricism and ntroversy.The nservative Christian anizatn Cizen Go circulated a petn opposg the release of the loonie that has garnered jt below 55,000 signatur.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

“This is a moral issue, this is a s issue terms of homosexual practic.”Cooke characterized the , which he says has a “very strange look,” as divisive and said “glorifi” the “LGBT liftyle.”“I n’t have my posssn,” he add. “This is promotg somethg that go agast my beliefs.”“Grown adults have a right to do whatever they like the privacy of their own bedroom, but there is no bs for the ernment puttg this on money,” he said.Gary Ksman, a longtime gay activist, is also displeased by the Equaly — but for a very different reason. Ksman claims that the obscur the persecutn of LGBTQ people that ntued after 1969.Ksman is part of the “Anti-69” work, a group of activists and scholars who have e together to unter the ernment’s posn that 1969 marks the crimalizatn of homosexualy Canada.

This change, he explaed, “did not affect any of the other offens that uld be ed agast people engagg homosexual sex.” The offense of “gross cency,” for example, was not abolished until 1988.Ksman poted to Canada’s first lbian and gay rights monstratn 1971, which protted the limed spe of the 1969 reform. Ksman also said that large-sle police raids on gay bars and bathho ntued throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s major ci across Canada.And today, Ksman said, LGBTQ people rema crimalized many ways.“There is still a blood ban and crimalizatn of people wh HIV,” Ksman said.

“There was not equaly 1969 and there is not equaly 2019.”Bill Morne, Canada’s fance mister and a member of Parliament for the area nsired Toronto’s “gay village,” acknowledged the fight for LGBTQ equaly is not over.“We regnize that there is absolutely more work to be done, but we also know that celebratg the people who've worked so hard, seeg important ton is crilly important a path that we're gog to ntue to work towards makg a difference,” Morne said at a prs nference Tuday.Among his cricisms of the Equaly loonie, Ksman argu s release is polilly motivated. “This is basic human right to be able to exist and that what the mt is acknowledgg.”“I don’t thk any ernment puts their hand up to take on LGBTI issu,” Kennedy said, referrg to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex dividuals.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Now, ge anizatns are begng to follow su, and certa bs may be the biggt Thursday, the LGBT Foundatn, a Hong Kong-based non-prof aimed at supportg gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals globally, announced that would lnch s own digal token on the blockcha. Wtig, who is also the founr and CEO of the San Francis-based gay social work Hor, not that his pany will be the first to accept the token as pensatn om s more than 25 ln members, who pay a monthly or annual subscriptn fee.

"Merchants unrstand very ltle of the purchasg power of this muny, " the entreprenr tells Inc., notg that wh annual spendg nearg $1 trilln, gay nsumers rival other mory groups wh their disposable e. Were Pl to e one of the many existg terms to scribe homosexual activy, we would expect to see the e of arrenoman; dihetaristriai; eromenos, erast or pairasste; or lakkoproktoi. As such, there are some very strong ditors that this text als not wh homosexualy, but stead male prostutn and the perasty system.

Many will say that tradn and the Wlyan Quadrilateral (ie, the wisdom of historil scholarship) dictate that we regard this to mean homosexualy, but the exeget who me before did not have the benef of the vast rmatn and search-abily ter and is not as if the church do not have a history of discrimatn.

NEW GAY RIGHTS DIVIS LGBT MUNY — AND OUTRAG SOCIAL NSERVATIV

Furthermore John Boswell mak a pretty strong se that the church (and historil relig amia) did not, fact, nmn homosexualy.

SAY NO TO A "GAY" LOONIE!

What is clear is that if the texts of Corthians and 1 Timothy are your sole basis for nmnatn of homosexualy, you stand on a weak foundatn, are fettg the temperance, curtailment and ntext that Pl provid immediately after the text 1 Corthians 6:11:. GayCo (GAY) is currently ranked as the #18027 cryptocurrency by market p.