Apology for free speech.

His barber shop was vandalized by a gang of sick perverts. He was bombarded with hate mail. Yet Kamloops city councillor John DeCicco was forced to pay $1000 to a couple of sodomites and... apologize for hurting their feelings.

What was his crime? Refusing to endorse the so called "gay pride proclamation". Expressing his views in a TV interview. Saying that sodomite lifestyle is neither normal nor natural and while people can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes, perverts shouldn't go out and flaunt their lifestyle in front of people who don't necessarily agree. That was enough for a couple of perverts to decide that their feelings are hurt. They filed a complaint to the modern day inquisition called the "human rights tribunal".

As the case of Bill Whatcott shows, this tribunal is far from being fair and unbiased. Hurt feelings of a few perverts usually outweigh one's right to free speech. John DeCicco had to agree on a settlement which required him to pay the accusers $1000 and admit in his apology statement that his comments were "inappropriate and hurtful to some". He says the settlement doesn't change his veiws on the so called "pride" but he promises that his public comments "have to be a little more refined". Is there however a politically correct way to say that abnormal lifestyles are nothing to be proud of?

John DeCicco came to Canada from Italy when he was 15. He is fiercely proud of the country that became his home. "In this great nation of ours," he said in his interview to Life Site News, "we can express our opinions and when you can't there's something wrong." Too bad that his own life experience proves once again that there is something wrong in today's Canada; that free speech is only available to those agreeing with ideology of the governing elite. But there's still some hope left. John DeCicco describes the phone calls and e-mails he received as 85% positive. It means that despite all the indoctrination from the government and the mass media, vast majority of Canadians are on the right side.