Panel: Canadians should try to export gay-friendly attitude
Posted on June 28, 2008
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Canadians have an obligation to try to promote their country’s pro-LGBT-rights climate in places where homosexuality is not accepted, and to offer political asylum to those who are being persecuted over their sexual orientation, according to a panel discussion held as part of Toronto’s pride celebration. “There are 86 countries in the world where we would be arrested just for being in this room. In 10, we would be executed,” the Rev. Brent Hawkes of Toronto’s Metropolitan Community Church said during the panel. The Toronto Star
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