• AliceA
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    13 days ago

    Irony anyone? For that town name

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    From the Tribunal’s decision. It was ruled that voting against displaying a pride flag is not necessarily discriminatory. The mayor, however, stated his reason for denying the request was because there isn’t a straight flag. It was ruled his decision was based on sexuality, and therefore, discriminatory. The other councilors who voted against the resolution were fine.

    [51] However, Mayor McQuaker’s remark during the May 12 council meeting that there was no flag for the “other side of the coin … for straight people” was on its face dismissive of Borderland Pride’s flag request and demonstrated a lack of understanding of the importance to Borderland Pride and other members of the LGBTQ2 community of the Pride flag. I find this remark was demeaning and disparaging of the LGBTQ2 community of which Borderland Pride is a member and therefore constituted discrimination under the Code

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      Weird. That makes more sense. The article says there is no flag pole which would be reasonable to deny flying a flag.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      So because he didn’t want to be discriminatory, he got charges of discrimination.

      Good job, Human Rights Tribunal