Dr. John Corvino, a philosophy professor from Michigan, spoke last week at the University of Lethbridge as part of the Gay and Lesbian Integrity Association’s (GALIA) OUTspoken events.
Corvino dispelled several arguments that equate homosexuality with immorality and showed how many religious and sociological arguments against homosexuality can be untrue and irrational.
Corvino’s analysis exposed several hypocrisies and double standards as they relate to moral judgments against homosexuality and said the real immorality is society’s treatment of queer people.
“I think the way gay and lesbian people are treated in our society is …

U.S president Barack Obama’s administration is expressing public anger with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his government’s plan to build 1,600 Jewish settled homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
Continued Jewish settlement on Palestinian lands is a major obstacle blocking the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians. East Jerusalem was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day-War between the Jewish state and Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
Since 1967, Israel has occupied Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. The plan to construct 1,600 Jewish homes in the city demonstrates a blatant non-commitment to peace on …

How Rahim Jaffer was let off with $500 fine raises questions

Citizenship and immigration minister Jason Kenney backpedaled last week amidst public pressure and promised to reinstate references to gay rights in Canada’s new citizenship guide for landed immigrants.
Earlier this month, a Canadian Press report confirmed that Kenney’s office ordered government bureaucrats to remove passages in the citizenship guide that spoke of same-sex marriage legalization in 2005, and the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969.
Kenney, a Conservative MP from Calgary, has been a vocal opponent of gay rights throughout his political career.
Last year the Conservatives embarked on an initiative to produce a …

Tories flip-flop on oil royalties, will cost taxpayers $785 M in lost revenue