“‘The parade was sooo boring.’ If Pride Toronto got a loonie [dollar] every time we heard that line last summer, all the organization’s financial needs would be met. The 2005 Pride parade was boring: It took too long, there were too many yawning gaps when nothing happened, there were precious few exciting floats and there were way too many sandal-wearing churchgoers who thought waving made a good show. So let’s kill it. Let’s cancel the Pride parade before it dies a slow tortuous death.”

“The world was very different when Charities began this ministry at the threshold of the twentieth-century. The world changed often and we adapted the ministry to meet changing times and needs. At all times we sought to place the welfare of children at the heart of our work. But now, we have encountered a dilemma we cannot resolve.”

“I don’t agree to see this issue in a way that there is a heterosexual culture and a homosexual culture and that they are equal. I see no reason to promote such attitudes, because if they were common, the human race would have to die out.”

“If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African-Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade? People have rights. If we let the ILGO [Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization] in, is it the Irish Prostitute Association next?”