Jason Kenney on gay-rights removal: 'I did not do such a thg' - The Globe and Mail

Contents:

• JASON KENNEY THKS GAY STUNTS SHOULD BE OUTED. K.D. LANG ASKS HIM IF HE’S GAY.
• IS JASON KENNEY GAY?
• MP JASON KENNEY ANGERS GAY PARLIAMENTARIANS BUT ALSO SUPPORTS CIVIL UNNS
• JASON KENNEY SAYS HE ‘REGRETS’ RURFACED 1980S MENTS ON GAY HOSPAL VISATN RIGHTS
• KENNEY'S SPEECHWRER LLED GAY ACTIVISTS BULLI AND A FIRST NATN AN 'OPPRSIVE, LLECTIVIST REGIME'
• JASON KENNEY ON GAY-RIGHTS REMOVAL: 'I DID NOT DO SUCH A THG'
• JASON KENNEY’S APPEAL TO SOCIAL NSERVATIV TARGETS GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• ALBERTA NDP TAK AIM AT JASON KENNEY NEW LAW ON GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• JASON KENNEY FENDS PLAN TO ROLL BACK PART OF ALBERTA’S LAW ON GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• ALBERTA NDP BLASTS JASON KENNEY'S MENTS ON OUTG CHILDREN WHO JO GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

JASON KENNEY THKS GAY STUNTS SHOULD BE OUTED. K.D. LANG ASKS HIM IF HE’S GAY.

On Tuday, Jason Kenney told the edorial board of Postmedia’s Calgary papers that he believ parents should be rmed when their child jos a gay-straight alliance at school, unls there is “evince that the parents are abive. Lang asked:You’re gay aren’t you? Lang (@kdlang) March 29, 2017In a Facebook statement a few hours later, Kenney attempted to pull back his general le for outg is that is only somethg to be done exceptnal circumstanc, to illtrate the hypocrisy of a public figure who, through their rhetoric or actns, is engaged brgg harm to that same muny of which they are quietly a is not the first time the qutn has been posed to the former mister of immigratn, who was once asked by Xtra‘s Andrea Hoton (my own partner) the ntext of a 2012 terview on his ernment’s problematic views on queer refuge:AH: Are you gay or straight?

The d was om a speech given to Canadian Alliance supporters back specifilly took pri mentng his role repealg a spoal law that allowed gay men to vis their dyg partners the hospal durg the height of the AIDS epimic. “I beme print of the pro-life group my mp and helped to lead an ultimately succsful iative petn, which led to a referendum which overturned the first gay spoal law North Ameri, ” Kenney other week, the Alberta NDP released a clip of that speech followed by a 10-mute documentary which featured San Francisns who were impacted by Kenney’s early polil activism. It clus two nurs, an activist and a gay man, who was nied accs to his partner's apartment after his ath.

In 2005, Kenney voted agast same-sex marriage, and 2013, he voted agast a bill that would have add genr inty and exprsn as prohibed grounds of discrimatn the Canadian Human Rights week, the bate over Gay-Straight Allianc Alberta schools was reigned when Kenney told reporters that he would implement the 2012 Edutn Act.

IS JASON KENNEY GAY?

”Attacks on Kenney’s social rerd e om both the left and right si of the polil week, Derek Filbrandt, lear of the new Freedom Conservative Party exprsed dismay over Kenney’s ments about gay rights and the impact he had on gay AIDS patients. ”Wildrose ndidate Allan Hunsperger wrote about his views on homosexualy a blog post that rurfaced durg the 2012 provcial mpaign. Hunsperger unleashed a heap of cricism when he wrote that gay people “will suffer the rt of eterny the lake of fire, hell.

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MP JASON KENNEY ANGERS GAY PARLIAMENTARIANS BUT ALSO SUPPORTS CIVIL UNNS

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JASON KENNEY SAYS HE ‘REGRETS’ RURFACED 1980S MENTS ON GAY HOSPAL VISATN RIGHTS

Jason Kenney braggg about preventg gay upl om visg their AIDS stricken partners the hospal. Other media outlets and lumnists are already offerg reportg and sight to the numero exampl of UCP ndidat who have publicly offered dodgy, racist, or homophobic ments var fora.

Kenney’s vow to dump bozos seemed to last only until he found a bozo he uldn’t eject after the adle to replace him had passed; the lear has cid to stand behd Mark Smh after an extensive sermon was released which he qutned whether homosexual love was “good love, ” obliquely parg to pedophilia.

That was quickly followed by a leak of a ramblg, borrle herent memo Smh wrote that suggted that Christian schools should able to fire homosexual teachers for doctral reasons. Three tim, Adler asked Kenney to offer a genue apology for his role overturng an ordance that would have allowed gay partners to vis each other hospice durg the height of the AIDS epimic San Francis the ’80s. Kenney went on to fend his party’s cisn to restate the Edutn Act, th rollg back some of the protectns for Gay Straight Allianc clud Bill 24.

KENNEY'S SPEECHWRER LLED GAY ACTIVISTS BULLI AND A FIRST NATN AN 'OPPRSIVE, LLECTIVIST REGIME'

Adler steamrollered right over the pots, askg why so many people who bash gays, women and Mlims were attracted to the UCP. Kenney—along wh other crics of the Act to Support Gay Straight Allianc—have amed their opposn unr the bric of relig eedom and parental choice.

This se, while undoubtedly plited and difficult for the parents and their dghter, bears all the hallmarks of the narrative fomentg about GSAs—namely, that they’re sex clubs n by secretive teachers handg out explic material tryg to “rpt” vulnerable young people to beg gay or transgenr. The bill merely prevents notifyg parents that their child has joed this specific club, and given the level of paranoia and misrmatn currently circulatg about GSAs—and the many very real harms that gay and transgenr teens face when they are outed to unsupportive parents—that prohibn is reasonable. He’s off puttg bee he n’t seem to project himself to the emotnal space of other people—the gay men his activism harmed San Francis the ’80s.

JASON KENNEY ON GAY-RIGHTS REMOVAL: 'I DID NOT DO SUCH A THG'

The gay children who might fd refuge a school club. It should also be noted that as feral immigratn mister, he was a vol advote of supportg gay and lbian refuge pg hostile regim like Iran. I see virtually no women posns of fluence; no Red Tori, no gay people, and no skeptics.

OTTAWA, Febary 15, 2005 () – Jason Kenney, the Conservative MP for Calgary Southeast has drawn the ire of homosexual activists Parliament by emphasizg once aga that marriage n only be the unn of one man and one woman.

This weekend, Kenney irrated the perennially irrable Libby Davi, NDP MP for Vanuver East, sayg that gays are as ee as anyone else to enter to marriage.

JASON KENNEY’S APPEAL TO SOCIAL NSERVATIV TARGETS GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

A recent rear poll by the Natnal Post revealed that the pro-gay marriage policy of the NDP and Liberal Parti are out of sync wh Canadian public opn. On the weekend Kenney said, “I don’t ny at all that gays and lbians re for each other and love for each other, and ed that should be nsired civil unn relatnships at the provcial level. The Vatin’s hight teachg office, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah wrote June 2003, “In those suatns where homosexual unns have been legally regnized or have been given the legal stat and rights belongg to marriage, clear and emphatic opposn is a duty… If is te that all Catholics are obliged to oppose the legal regnn of homosexual unns, Catholic policians are obliged to do so a particular way.

ALBERTA NDP TAK AIM AT JASON KENNEY NEW LAW ON GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Immigratn Mister Jason Kenney speaks durg Qutn Perd the Hoe of Commons on Wednday, November 4, KilpatrickCanada's Immigratn Mister is apparently nyg any role the removal of referenc to gay rights om a cizenship study gui released last Wednday why he blocked any rmatn about same-sex marriage and Charter rights protectg sexual orientatn, Jason Kenney said: "I did not do such a thg.

"The mister then disappeared to the Conservative uc room the Centre Block of Parliament Canadian Prs reported this week that an early draft of the gui, which new immigrants mt study for cizenship tts startg March 15, clud referenc to the crimalizatn of homosexualy 1969 along wh other gay-rights a memo to Mr. Kenney Augt dit burecrats were rebuffed when they ma a last-dch requt to have gay rights re-serted the gui released last November wh fanfare ma only a passg reference to gays and lbians, a photo ptn. Kenney's apparent nial, spokman Alykhan Velshi said Wednday that "the mister's signature isn't on any cisn note or anywhere else" the released documents, suggtg someone else the mister's office ma the gay-rights cisn on his Velshi was asked last week to expla Mr.

Kenney's cisn to remove the gay-rights material. Velshi did not rpond to further requts for nfn about the gui, which replac a 1995 versn, extend to the gay-rights group, Egale Canada. Kenney early December to ask that gay rights be clud the next edn of the gui.

JASON KENNEY FENDS PLAN TO ROLL BACK PART OF ALBERTA’S LAW ON GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Kennedy, who was also asked at the meetg to provi the partment wh suggted wordg, lled the mister's office this week after she learned the early draft of the gui had ed clud referenc to gay rights. EdmontonJason Kenney's ments durg a news nference Tuday brought new attentn to his ntroversial polil history wh the gay muny, cludg his attempts to ny hospal visatn rights to gay upl durg the 1980s AIDS epimic San Francis. (Jeff McIntosh/ The Canadian Prs)Alberta Premier Jason Kenney apologized Wednday for parg the treatment of unvaccated people to the stigma faced by HIV/AIDS patients durg the drew the parison Tuday durg a news nference where he announced Alberta's plan to immediately start phasg out COVID-19 public health rtrictns, cludg the vacce passport premier's ments quickly drew backlash onle, cludg om the Opposn NDP and advot for the LGBTQ 's words brought new attentn to his ntroversial polil history wh the gay muny, cludg his attempts to ny hospal visatn rights to gay upl durg the 1980s AIDS epimic San LATESTEverythg you need to know about COVID-19 Alberta on Wednday, Feb.

"You fought to keep gay people om visg their dyg partners hospal. You fought to keep gay people om visg their dyg partners hospal.

—@JanisIrwIrw and others who cricized the ments poted to Kenney's role attemptg to overturn a law extendg hospal visatn rights to gay upl durg the 1980s AIDS epimic San Francis. Jason Kenney says he regrets prev ments on gay hospal visatn rightsFormer Edmonton cy uncillor Michael Phair, one of the founrs of the AIDS Network of Edmonton, said the premier needs to take ncrete actn to make amends for the ments he ma, who has been active for over 25 years wh Edmonton's LGBTQ muny, said Kenney's parison was alarmg and harmful the way ignored years of fear and tragedy ed by the AIDS ments were pecially problematic due to Kenney's polil history, Phair said. Perhaps not pletely unrstandg how much acrimony the Gay-Straight Alliance issue ed his party back 2014, recently selected Progrsive Conservative lear Jason Kenney brought the issue back to the foreont this week.

ALBERTA NDP BLASTS JASON KENNEY'S MENTS ON OUTG CHILDREN WHO JO GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Acrdg to reports om Postmedia, when asked about Gay-Straight Allianc, Kenney told the edorial board of the Calgary Herald and Sun that he would allow schools to rm parents if their stunts jo a Gay-Straight Alliance. Gay-Straight Allianc are stunt-iated clubs meant empower stunts to create safe environments their own schools. Why, that is, unls ep ep down, we still do believe that is, fact, a shameful, dangero thg to be gay — or to associate wh gay iends.

EDMONTON -- Alberta's tn mister says he plans to change the law to prevent nservative learship ndidate Jason Kenney om outg gay children. David Eggen says the provce has been workg for years on gay-straight allianc schools and he says he won't let that procs be unrmed.