IF THINGS gO Svend Robinson’s way, men will hold hands and smooch in Stanley Park, teenagers will be encouraged to follow the banner of Sodom, and sickness will be seen as health. Those are the conclusions to be drawn from Robinson’s having stepped out of the closet. And you should expect little resistance from the media. Outfits like the CBC will never call the shots on such subjects, as witness the Journal in- terview with Robinson on Monday night. Tue gays’ MP, as I have called Robinson for years, laid it-on the line in his pasty-faced, smirking way. ‘‘These beautiful people’ he called his fellow queers of both sexes. [, is unfortunate but true that the NDP has become the preferred party of the pansies.”’ Never mind that 90 per cent of AIDS cases on the West Coast are to be found among ‘‘these beautiful people,”’ and that some of the things sodomites do are too revolting to be described outside of a medical journal. Homosexuality is beautiful. As Robinson put it: “*T would like to be able to walk through Stanley Park hand-in- hand with a man that I care about."’ : ; {tis true, of ceurse, that our culture does not accept the sight of men holding hands in public, nib- bling one another’s ears, or sniff- ing at one another's backsides. Nor should it. We are not dogs. If the fairies had their way, though, such dispt!ays would be common and the schools would teach that sodomy is normal. The advances made by the misnamed ‘‘gay’’ lobbies are as- tounding, and reminiscent of the collapse of moral values in pre- 1933 Germany that helped to bring Hitler to power. (It says some- thing, does it not, when sodomy ‘and raking babies out of the womb are seen as God’s gift?) . ” In cities like San Francisco the sodomites run the show. They will here, too, if we are not careful. In ~ England, however, the Thatcher government has been forced to take action. That’s because left-wing schoolboards in London boroughs Doug Collins to debate have been promoting and glamorizing sodomy. {I prefer the Original term to the cuphemistic “thomosexuality.’’) But the British public is not amused. Legislation will therefore prevent such go- ings-on as of June 1. The funding of sodomite groups will also cease. That's what should happen here. instead, the Brian Baloneyites look the other way and MPs like Mary Collins go on ‘Equality Rights’’ commissions that say ‘‘sexual ori- entation’’ is a non-issue, and that declared pansies and lesbians should be admitted to the armed forces. Robinson was also on the com- mission, pushing for more ‘*gay rights.” He didn't choose to tell the country then what his sexual orientation was, Which was deccit- ful. : Then there’s NDP leader Ed Broadbent’s silly claim that Robinson's ‘‘lifestyle’’ is a private matter. It's nothing of the sort. It might have been a private matter if he had kept his mouth shut and confined his activities to private places. But for years he has been a propaganada minister for abnormality, as was documented in this space on Sunday. It is not a private matter, cither, when this man tells the world he wishes to ‘‘bolster the homosexual rights movement,’’ or when he argues in Parliament that the age of consent for that ilk should be less than 18, It is unfortunate but true that the NDP has become the preferred party of the pansies. That is not to say that your average NDPer ap- proves. But the NDP gets more support from them than any other party does. That was why Mike Harcourt (a ‘‘straight’’ like Broadbent) proclaimed a ‘‘gay rights”? week in Vancouver. From simple tolerance of homosexuality, which I do not op- pose, the body - olitic in Canada has gone to approving and pro- noting it, and Sodom looks for recruits. Something else: if the homos had their way, columns like this would be muzzled. Opposition of this sort if considered to be ‘‘hate literature.’’ “Come the next election, the people of Burnaby will have the opportunity to say No to ail that. And I hope they do. ® MP over immigration NEWS Get This Straight columnist Doug Collins: will: debate Dollard MP and junior federal Employ- ment and Immigration Minister Gerry Weiner on the federal gov- ernment’s ' immigration policies from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Satur- day, March 26 at North. Van- couver’s Centennial Theatre. Collins will be joined by former Immigration Appeal Board. vice- chairman Charles Campbell. Conservative MP for Surrey- White Rock-Delta Benno Friesen will help Weiner represent the fed- eral government’s point of view. The debate format will provide each speaker with an initial 10 minutes to set forth his argument. There will also be microphones provided for audience members to ask questions, which will be limited to two minutes each. Following the allotted time for questions from the floor, each panel speaker will be given an ad- ditional four minutes for an argu- ment summation. Debate organizer Chuck Cook, North Vancouver-Burnaby Con- servative MP, will referee what is being billed as The Great Debate on Immigration. A $5 admission charge will in- clude a continental breakfast. For more information calf 980- 6781. 9 - Friday, March 4, 1988 - North Shore News iV considers fence bylaw WEST VANCOUVER District is considering a fence regu- lations bylaw for the municipality. “Good fences make good neighbors,’’ Ald. Pat Boname said at a recent West Vancouver District Council meeting. Complaints about high fences in the municipality have led to re- quests for regulations. “West Vancouvecrites are generally good neighbors, but there have been a few problems,”’ said Ald. Mark Sager. One such case involved the building of a retaining wall, as high as a man in places, with a fence on top. Planning director Steve Nicholls suggested a bylaw that would restrict the height of fences to cight feet. Fences should also be reduced by the height of any retaining walls on which they are placed, he add- ed. But the regulations might not be all that effective in answering the kinds of complaints that fences can elicit — that they block city views and can be aesthetically displieas- ing. tn the case of the views, Nicholls pointed out, fences can be replaced with hedges, which can have a worse impact and be nearly im- possible to regulate. The municipality would also have litte power over the potential ugliness or poor construction of a Cantributing Writer fence. Due to varied topography of the district, applications for variances to the height restrictions would crop up. Mayor Don Lanskail suggested West Vancouver submit a resolu- tion to the Union of B.C. Municipalities that would permit the director of planning the discre- tionary power to deal with requests for variances. 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