Friday September 18, 1998
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MAYOR FORCED TO PROCLAIM GAY PRIDE WEEK
FEDERICTON, Sept 18 (LSN) – New Brunswick Mayor Brad Woodside was ordered to proclaim Gay Pride Week yesterday by the province’s Human Rights Commission after an “independent” inquiry into the matter found the Mayor guilty of discrimination against homosexuals. New Brunswick’s Telegraph Journal reported today that Woodside agreed “under protest” to make the proclamation within a year of yesterday’s ruling as ordered. “I will read the proclamation because I’ve been ordered to read it,” said the mayor.
The guilty verdict was handed down by a one-man board of inquiry appointed by the Minister of Advanced Education and Labour. University of New Brunswick law professor Brian Bruce, a graduate of the socialist London School of Economics, wrote in the decision that “The balancing of the right to freedom of religion and the right of individuals not to be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation would appear to present similar arguments to those that have been addressed in this decision with respect to the balancing of the Mayor’s freedom of expression and the right of the Complainants to be free from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.” “But the balance has been found to clearly favour the complainants,” he said.
The extreme bias of the adjudicating professor was evident in comments to the Journal in which he proffered that “It would not be surprising that in 50 or 100 years our current understanding of our prejudices and their effects on others may appear, in some respects, as rather primitive.”
Senator Noel Kinsella, who was largely responsible for the Senate’s approval of “sexual orientation” being added to the Canadian Human Rights Act is a big fan of Brian Bruce. Kinsella notes that he has “read all of his (Bruce’s) decisions under human rights law” and praised them as “very erudite, very cogent, and good decisions in terms of the nature and essence of human rights.”
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