It’s infuriating but not surprising that appeasement has won the day in the barring of Toronto police from this summer’s so-called “pride” parade.

We are referring to it as “pride” and not “Pride” because there is no pride in the gutless decision of its officials to pander to the irrational demands of Black Lives Matter on this issue.

Police Chief Mark Saunders bowed to the inevitable Friday, saying police would not formally participate in this summer’s pride parade or pride week by sponsoring a float or community booths.

This given that panic-stricken pride officials had already disinvited them last month, after caving in to demands from BLM at what was supposed to be a meeting where pride presented its annual financial statements and elected a new board.

Saunders said the police will hold their annual pride reception and continue police outreach programs to the LGBTQ community, as well as provide security for the parade.

Apparently pride will still allow individual officers to participate in the parade — realistically, how could it stop them? — although whether those officers will choose to wear their uniforms, given how pride has just spat on them, is an open question.

This ban makes no logical sense since it’s an insult to gay, lesbian and heterosexual police officers who have been building bridges to the gay community.

But this is what happens when you pander to radicals, which pride has a long history of doing.

For example, by allowing a small, now-defunct group of demonstrators in previous years to hijack the pride parade in order to promote hatred against the Jewish state of Israel, by falsely comparing it to apartheid South Africa.

Indeed, for a group that claims to believe in promoting acceptance and inclusion, pride has become a mockery of itself by giving in so easily to the forces of division and intolerance.

In light of pride’s decision to ban police from the parade, we call on the federal, provincial and municipal governments to immediately withdraw all their financial support from this event.

The city of Toronto alone, for example, gives pride more than $1 million annually in grants, in-kind policing and city services. This should be ended immediately, given pride’s decision to ban the police.

Would City Hall, or the federal and provincial governments give money to an organization that banned Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Asians or other visible minorities from its parade?

Would they give money to an organization that, if not actively promoting hatred against such groups itself, nonetheless asks, “how high” when the promoters of division and intolerance tell it to “jump”?

Finally, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Kathleen Wynne, Mayor John Tory and all federal, provincial and municipal politicians, should boycott this year’s Toronto pride parade, to register their disgust with its decision to ban the police.

Because, seriously, enough is enough.