Alberta UCP Lear Jason Kenney’s Anti-Gay Speech Surfac on World AIDS Day

Contents:

• JASON KENNEY THKS GAY STUNTS SHOULD BE OUTED. K.D. LANG ASKS HIM IF HE’S GAY.
• JASON KENNEY SAYS HE REGRETS MENTS ON GAY HOSPAL VISATN RIGHTS
• IS JASON KENNEY GAY?
• ALBERTA UCP LEAR JASON KENNEY’S ANTI-GAY SPEECH SURFAC ON WORLD AIDS DAY
• JASON KENNEY'S MASS EMAIL TO GAY AND LBIAN CANADIANS
• ALBERTA UCP LEAR JASON KENNEY’S ANTI-GAY SPEECH SURFAC ON WORLD AIDS DAY
• KENNEY'S SPEECHWRER LLED GAY ACTIVISTS BULLI AND A FIRST NATN AN 'OPPRSIVE, LLECTIVIST REGIME'

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

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.

JASON KENNEY SAYS HE REGRETS MENTS ON GAY HOSPAL VISATN RIGHTS

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. ”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.

IS JASON KENNEY GAY?

Hunsperger unleashed a heap of cricism when he wrote that gay people “will suffer the rt of eterny the lake of fire, hell. Further wrgs by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's speechwrer me to light Friday, lumns statg that homosexualy was "dividually and socially stctive" and characterizg an Alberta First Natn as an "opprsive, llectivist regime.

For example, NDP 'sat' Tommy Douglas prevly lled homosexualy a 'mental illns, '" Flemg said an email to CBC News. Bunner has a long rerd of wrg racist, sexist, Islamophobic and homophobic articl, " Pancholi said.

ALBERTA UCP LEAR JASON KENNEY’S ANTI-GAY SPEECH SURFAC ON WORLD AIDS DAY

(CBC News)On homosexualyIn a lumn posted the nservative weekly newsmagaze Alberta Report Augt 1997, Bunner wrote that "AIDS gets more k than serv" and a subsequent edor's note attempts to pre-empt g cricism for a ver story.

JASON KENNEY'S MASS EMAIL TO GAY AND LBIAN CANADIANS

"The story is an attempt to figure out why [Ralph Kle's] ernment seems bent on liverg wards of the state to homosexual hoeholds, to summarize the arguments agast gay parentg, and to search for some backbone the ostensible social nservativ the Tory bet and uc, " Bunner wrote on Aug. 11, same year, Bunner wrote that a lumnist was rrect his asssment that "100, 000 abortns a year Canada is a social tragedy, that homosexualy is dividually and socially stctive. "In 1998, Bunner wrote an edor's note reflectg on cricism the Alberta Report received for a 1993 ver story wh the headle "Can gays be cured?

"In 1998, Bunner wrote an edor's note reflectg on cricism the Alberta Report received for a 1993 ver story wh the headle 'Can gays be cured? Cg a Newsweek story published 1998 tled "Can gays nvert?

ALBERTA UCP LEAR JASON KENNEY’S ANTI-GAY SPEECH SURFAC ON WORLD AIDS DAY

" and ponrg whether then-premier Ralph Kle will notice a "goln opportuny for a thorough bate" on the future of homosexualy the provce.

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

"When [Kle] notic that the Republin party the Uned Stat is standg firmer agast the radil gay agenda than has for years, and that an creasg number of bright, articulate homosexuals are eher abandong the liftyle or urgg their perpetually angry, dangeroly hedonistic iends to tone down the polil rhetoric and show a ltle sexual rtrat, " Bunner wr, "perhaps Mr. 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? And wh Kenney as premier, the s of anti-queer problems me swiftly: Advot spent two years fightg for stunts’ right to privacy gay-straight allianc (GSAs) only for the legislatn protectg stunts to be effectively killed once Kenney was elected.

In a untry that is seemgly movg forward—even the Conservative Party of Canada has stripped self of s anti-gay lear—the provce ntu to fall behd. It seems the UCP is proof of the anti-gay and -trans power that remas at the helm Canada. In one of his more egreg actns, Kenney boasted to supporters durg a 2000 speech that he helped repeal spoal rights legislatn for same-sex upl, and that he phed to have a law overturned givg gay men extend hospal visatn rights durg the AIDS crisis.

“Gay-straight allianc, abortn, sexual health, sex tn—’s all nnected, ” she says.

AB Premier Jason Kenney braggg about preventg gay upl om visg their AIDS stricken partners the hospal. Jason Kenney braggg about preventg gay upl om visg their AIDS stricken partners the hospal.