Very interesting information! Thanks!

G’night

at for your information King James was Gay!
http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/history/king_james_gay.html

buksan mo sana ang puso mo kapatid na baptist.

hindi totoo na mga baptist “lamang” ang biktima ng inquisition era. huwag niyong solohin dahil maraming pang iba na naging biktima ng inquisition hindi lang ang mga baptist. Liban kay John the Baptist patunayan mo muna mula sa translation ng Biblia niyo na ang mga unang alagad ni Kristo ay tinawag na Baptist. tsaka ako maniniwala sa mga sinasabi mo kapatid.

Seeks sensitivity training for officers for wrongful arrest, beating and anti-gay remarks

December 22, 2006
Tracy Huffman
Crime Reporter, Toronto Star

A man found by a jury to be a victim of “gay bashing” by Toronto police wants an inquiry into the conduct of the officers he says wrongly arrested him and beat him while making homophobic slurs.

“Accountability, that’s what I am looking for,” Robert Schisler, 53, told a news conference at his lawyer’s downtown office yesterday.

Earlier this week, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of a $600,000 judgment against several Toronto officers. It is believed to be the largest award against a police service in Canadian history.

“He was falsely accused of crimes by the police when, in fact, they were the ones who were guilty of misdeeds which included the beating and abusing of Robert Schisler, and misdeeds by superior officers, one of whom participated in the beating and another superior officer who wrongfully held him at 52 Division, regardless of his obvious injuries and need for assistance,” said Schisler’s civil lawyer, Hedy Epstein.

Schisler, who was a successful home renovator, doesn’t want to see the officers fired because he said that won’t fix the problem.

Instead he said they should have to undergo sensitivity training. The problem, Schisler said, goes far beyond a handful of officers and should be thoroughly examined, he said.

“This has got to stop,” he said.

Epstein said the case was fraught with police misconduct, from the arrest to missing evidence.

“Mr. Schisler wants whatever personal or systemic problems that led to his abuse at the hands of Toronto police officers to be independently examined so that … all people in the future will not be subjected to the suffering that Mr. Schisler had to endure,” Epstein said.

On July 22, 1999, Schisler was with a male friend in the back of his parked van when he said he saw several men in street clothes looking in the windows and shaking his vehicle.

Believing they were “thugs” he drove away. At no point did he know that any of them were police officers, he said.

He was stopped in the Isabella and Church Sts. area and charged with dangerous driving and assault resisting arrest. Those charges were stayed in 2001 for Charter violations.

He sued police and, after a three-week trial, a jury concluded the officers did not have reasonable grounds to arrest Schisler.

The jury also found that he was “intentionally restrained, confined or detained.”

Lawyer Devin Bains, who represented Schisler on the criminal proceedings, said the police admitted that Schisler was never doing anything illegal. But the police story changed several times, he said.

“It isn’t just that he is gay bashed by police. It’s that after the gay bashing … they laid fake charges against him to hide what they had done. How grotesque is that?” said Bains.

“If that’s not the soul of corruption, what is?”

Bains said the case is significant because “the jury didn’t believe anything the police were saying. They believed Mr. Schisler.”

Schisler, who had a net worth of nearly $1 million before the incident, lost everything as a result of his legal woes, he said. The stress of the legal battle led to an anxiety disorder, a relationship break-up and the loss of all his assets.

Friends took him in and supported him along the way, Schisler said, adding he lost two homes and has worked very little since the incident because he lacks focus.

Without those friends, he would have had nowhere to live, he said, fighting back tears.

Schisler filed a complaint with the Toronto Police Service shortly after his arrest, but that internal investigation never resulted in any action against the officers.

In the civil case, liability was apportioned among the defendants, including police officers Travis Clark, Tim Penman, Dale Connell, Bernard Flohr, Douglas Booth, Ernie Cossitt, Thomas Corbett, Fiona Greenaway and Jody Watson.

No one from the city police service has commented on the decision.

you both claim that you don’t discriminate, but i can actually cite several statements you’ve made above that fits in the UN definition of discrimination. Incidentally, if you have read the bill at all, it follows the same definition.

No one in the LGBT community is asking for “special rights”. When we demand penalty for schools that discriminate against LGBT students on the basis of their sexual orientation, we are not asking for ’special treatment’. We only want the right to education, as enshrined in the Constitution and in numerous international human rights conventions that we have signed, to be affirmed and upheld. When we call for fair treatment in employment, we are simply demanding for equal opportunities, something that is again in the Constitution and are part of our human rights obligations.

It is important to put this into law because even if they are in the Constitution, they are not self-enforcing. So you have to legislate these guarantees to provide a mechanism to enforce them.

What you are missing is that while you have the right to believe that homosexuality is unclean, such right does not give you any license to commit an act of discrimination. I won’t enter into biblical arguments, and I won’t dignify your hateful sentiments. Just remember that there are no majority or minority when it comes to human rights principles, and that the majority is not always homogenous. I do not believe in your religion, precisely because of the hatred that you and the likes of Rep. Abante espouse, but I will die in peace because I know that there are Christians who, unlike the both of you, view faith as a celebration of compassion and respect for human dignity.

I wish that you are happy that in this blog, you are able to express what’s in your conscience freely. Just note that there are Filipino LGBTs who, when they express their sentiments and beliefs, face abuse. They get mauled by their parents or their relatives. Lesbians get raped to cure them of their homosexuality. LGBT students face expulsion when they stand up for their sexuality.

What makes you special, then? Is it your claim that you are nearer to your god, that unlike you, we are – what is it again, Hermie – destined to burn in “Lagablab”. When you say we are a Christian nation, you erase the diversity of cultures and the multiplicity of our history. You likewise erase the many faces of Christianity that are more accepting. You drive away from your faith christians and non-Christians alike. And you claim that you don’t discriminate?

Rep. Abante has to be reminded that the democratic principles upon which our Constitution was established do not see you or me as Christian or non-Christian. Democracy sees all of us as members of the human family. And as a public servant, as someone who is enjoying our taxes, as someone who merely borrows his mandate from the sovereignty of the people, Rep. Abante has no business proselytizing. He’s there to see all of us as equals. The moment he sees otherwise simply means he doesn’t understand human rights at all, and thus he doesn’t deserve his position.

What is accepted in the society does not necessarily mean that it is right. The reason Rep.Abante is highly against this bill bec. it is anti-family, anti- filipino values and mostly anti-christianity of which this country is known for.He is not against the GLBT group personally what he is against is their wrong doings.

The very reason why he’s in that seat is to protect, uphold and preserve human rights. and that is what is exactly the GLBT is trying to destroy. They come to Rep.Abante in an all out war..but we believers come to them in God’s love. Pls.note that Fullman.