Sikh Candidate Kicked From Conservatives

[CanadianSingh]

Jagdish Grewal was kicked from saying that homesexuals was unnatural behaviour, and supported therapies to turn gays into straights. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-conservative-candidate-jagdish-grewal-gay-youth-1.3259324 Glad that Jagdish was kicked.

[MisterrSingh]

You can view this situation in two ways. Either you respect him for staying true to his beliefs and not compromising them (although I suspect he probably expected support from others who share his frame of mind; support that failed to materialise), or you can view him as incredibly naive and politically foolish for airing such views - even as someone with conservative beliefs - taking into account the social climate of the society we inhabit in the west.

To top it all off, as someone from an ethnic minority himself (in Canada to boot, where Sikhs have an iffy reputation in some quarters from what I can gather) he should've known his stance on this issue would spell the end of any aspirations he had for being elected. A white MP would struggle to retain their post after airing such opinions; a Sikh was bound to get it in the neck.

[Pakandi baba]

Good, intolerance should not be erm tolerated :s

[Jonny101]

what wrong did he say? ess bandhe ne bilkul sahi kiha hai.

[Guest]

Stupid person

[Ranjeet01]

As I have mentioned before Canada and Toronto in particular is the PC and feminist capital of the world.

When you have high immigration from socially conservative countries and "liberal/PC" institutions who are trying implement a certain agenda and also claim to provide multi-culturalism you are going to have problems.

[Akalifauj]

This is the same government who wasted tax payers money and time to make one day in the calendar to honor Pope John Paul II. Pope John Paul II has said gay marriage is evil. Such statements go against Canadian values, yet the conservative government made a special day on the Canadian Calendar to honor Pope John Paul II. A brown man in a turban gets kicked out of the party for similar views as the Pope and the Pope gets honored. Try to wrap your head around this case. Freedom means nothing to Harper when it comes to minorities.

[MisterrSingh]

As I have mentioned before Canada and Toronto in particular is the PC and feminist capital of the world.

When you have high immigration from socially conservative countries and "liberal/PC" institutions who are trying implement a certain agenda and also claim to provide multi-culturalism you are going to have problems.

Exactly. You'd think he'd be fully aware of the above for someone in his position.

[Ranjeet01]

Exactly. You'd think he'd be fully aware of the above for someone in his position.

Yes, what he said is something out of the 1950s.

However, I think there is an underlying current that a lot of people in socially conservative communities would have going by that report.

As Sikhs we feel everyone should have equal rights and should not be discriminated against, but there seems to be an agenda of educational indoctrination regarding sexuality that a lot of people feel uncomfortable with.

If people feel they need to take their children out of school because of this then it was worrying.

[MisterrSingh]

Yes, what he said is something out of the 1950s.

However, I think there is an underlying current that a lot of people in socially conservative communities would have going by that report.

As Sikhs we feel everyone should have equal rights and should not be discriminated against, but there seems to be an agenda of educational indoctrination regarding sexuality that a lot of people feel uncomfortable with.

If people feel they need to take their children out of school because of this then it was worrying.

There is the above aspects to it, for sure.

The fact is the homosexual issue is not up for debate anymore, politically and socially. You'll only get evangelical-type religious sorts who'll condemn homosexuality, and as you know, the media paints those voices as a minority of crackpots.

I can appreciate the concerns of some parents who may feel even discussing such issues with children in school is worrying. This Jagdish Grewal fellow needed to make this point but take it easy on the re-education and re-alignment of gays, lol. That sounds like the kind of thing they use to do in those horrid 50's asylums.

As I said, he really should've been aware that his forthright views on this issue would not be taken lightly. An appeal to parents concerned with those issues should've made the argument he was hoping to express without the extra masala he added.