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This item appeared in today's Globe and Mail:
| Be proud,
not naked: police
(Globe and Mail, 25 June 1998, page A14) Toronto police are warning those taking part in Sunday's Gay Pride Week parade to keep their clothes on -- or risk being arrested. "We've been asked to intervene by the organizers," Staff Inspector Dan Hutt said. "And we're prepared to take action." Mayor Mel Lastman said he will march in the parade but will not return next year if there is any nudity. This year, police are taking a rather liberal interpretation of the nudity laws. "If they've got anything covering their genitals, it's not nudity," Inspector Hutt said. |
This item makes it quite clear that what we suspected all along is true: the reason that David Clark is campaigning so strongly against us originates somewhere inside him. The police didn't tell him to do something about nudity, he told them!
Last year, the official word from the police was that they "had no problem with nudity or obscenity at the parade." The only reason for them to intervene now is because David Clark is asking them to. He is imposing his own personal bias on the entire city of Toronto, telling people what they must wear and what they aren't allowed to see.
David Clark has clearly been acting quite unreasonably in all of this.
I wonder why this particular issue frightens him so much. I do wish he'd
get over it, though, and let the rest of us enjoy Pride Day in peace!