Right Wing, Wrong Way

In Toronto this weekend we were standing in Yonge/Dundas Square and a middle eastern man was preaching from the Koran and claiming that people are gay because they were all "touched by their uncles as children." He was standing alone, speaking into a microphone, and as much as I didn't agree with his message, the dude had balls. NXNE music festival was going on 25 yards away from him, where their were thousands of people that most definitely didn't agree with his message, but he still stood up their and preached. I believe everyone has a right to speech and their opinion as long as those opinions aren't attacking others. There were a few times people approached him and questioned what he was doing, and one person even went as far as to knock down his speaker. I thought it was horrible what he was saying about the gay community, and yes, I did give him the finger as I walked away, but I also did respect him for speaking up in front of such an obviously left-wing crowd. I wondered if he knew there was no way he was going to change any minds, but obviously he was so passionate about it, he probably didn’t care. I stood there for about 10 minutes listening to him speak, and the only person that showed any sign of support was a man in his early 60’s, well dressed, and with a much younger woman on his arm, and that made me curious if the younger woman agreed with him. Hate towards the LGBT community has been steadily going down as the years go by, because it’s a new generation that is much more forward thinking and accepting. The baby-boomers are on their way out, and so are their ways of thinking. It’s now the left-wing youth that are on the rise in Canada, a welcome change in my opinion.