Bigotry Disguised

The expression, "Make America Great Again" is just a call to return to the good old days when white straight men reigned with their pretty little blonde bimbos at their side. I say "Let America Think Again". And this includes its neighbour to the north, Canada.  Sadly the right wing agenda has bled north into this land.

When I read about the anti-LGBTQ movement that is disguised in the misnomer "Parental Rights", I want to throw up. The late Queen Elizabeth II once warned that Human Rights hard won are easily lost. And that is what is happening. It's not just about gays, lesbians and transgendered or non-binary, it's about latinos, blacks, asians and indigenous people's too.

Perhaps this is a good thing. We minorities and marginalized people have become complacent with rights hard won and slowly won since the end of the second World War. We need to renew our vigilance. We need to  fight like some of us fought in the 60s, the 70s the 80s. Complacency seemed to settle in somewhere in the 1990s.

Canada warned recently that the USA was not a safe country for the LGBTQ+ community. Now Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick appear to be sliding in that direction too. The religious right is a dangerous enemy because they disguise christian faith in a cloak of hate fashioned from ignorance and fear of anything that is different. They are a wolf in sheeps clothing. But the shepherd would see through them and cast them out.