Douce CoLLins © on the other hand @ ANYONE DESIROUS of contemplating the abject, cowardly and shiftless state of our society need only lock at the fuss caused by those full page anti-pansy advertisements carried in the Pacific Press papers. The ads wete placed by fun- damentalists who warned that no good would come of the (misnam- ed) 1990 Gay Games in which, we are told, there are to be great ‘‘ar- tistic and athletic events.”” Whether the villains of the piece are fundamentalists or not, whether they are dotty or not, people opposed to perversion and to plead the homo’s cause; there is Gordon Campbell, the present mayor, who to get their vote wel- comed the Gay Games in the first place and continues to do so; there is the B.C. Civil Liberties mob (which includes our local leading sodomite, Stan Persky). Plus every trendy liberal you can think of. But it was the Evening Wimp Were come to the 20th century version of the Gay Nineties.’’ perversity must surely agree with their basic signal, which was: WHAT IN THE WORLD HAVE WE COME TO, THAT BAD IS GOOD, THAT AB- NORMAL IS NORMAL, AND THAT CHRIST IS THE DEVIL? We’ve come to the 20th century version of the Gay Nineties, that’s what. It’s a world in which sanity is bigotry — a world in which it is useless to ask such questions. One might as well put up a Salvation Army poster in the court of Caligula. The ads claimed that the games would bring disgrace to Van- couver. They had the tense wrong, though. Vancouver has already brought disgrace on itself. For we see all kinds of people backing the homos. There is Mike Harcourt, who, when mayor of Vancouver, set up Gay Freedom Week and continues WV School Board takes tough stance on drugs SELLING DRUGS or alcohol could get West Vancouver students age 16 or older barred for good from all district schools, a new board policy states. . 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These measures are only two of several in a tough new discipline policy recently presented to the West Vancouver School Board by assistant superintendent Bod Overgaard. Principals are given wide-rang- ing responsibilities under the new policy, including the power to sus- pend students for up to five school days, and to impose discipline SALE 449.88 SALE 9399.88 SALE 299.88 ALL SKI BOOTS ON SALE 9 - Wednesday, November 22, 1989 - North Shore News Personal Injury Ardagh Hunter Turner Barristers & Salicitors #300-1401 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver 986-4366 Free Initial Consultation Every homo and lesbian bunch in town was canvassed to its opi- nion, and every opinion could have been written without the reporters bothering to make the phone calls. It was a bit like Brian Mulroney being asked what he thought of himself. What, after all, did they expect the White Swan, the self-declared pansy MP to say? That the ads were great? No, swect Mr. Robin- son did his usual gig: He said they were a hate message and a call for war against the ‘‘gay community.”’ They were? What’s wrong with that? Would he say no to a little hate literature against Ernst Zundel or James Keegstra? Hate literature is as hate literature does. Equally predictable was the reaction of the mainstream chur- ches, most of whose leaders went barmy years ago. And one female Jewish genius clairned that the ads used the kind of language used in Germany during the Nazi years. Was she ever in Germany during the Nazi years? I was, and Adolf never did go around thumping the Bible. Oh well, it won't be long before any critical reference to sodomy and sodomites will be unlawful. It’s already that way in Sweden. Which reminds me that homos are displaying their filth openly and in groups in Stanley Park. When toid to exercise a littie discretion they bleat that they are being discriminated against. Gay games indeed! But that’s not the worst of it. 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