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Now that Toronto’s annual Pride Parade is over, let’s consider the degree of doublethink it took to ban uniformed police officers from participating in it, while relying on them for increased security to ensure the parade was peaceful.

The stepped-up police presence at this year’s parade — not to participate but to ensure there was no violence — occurred with the blessing of parade organizers due to concerns about recent homophobic attacks on parade participants in the Hamilton and Detroit Gay Pride Parades.

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Because of that, Pride organizers consulted in advance with Toronto Police about increased security and the police responded, because that’s their job.

This makes the continuing demonization of Toronto Police officers by some (not all) within the Pride organization utterly bizarre.

What possible point is there to this continuing ban of uniformed police from the parade?

The only people it hurts are police officers who are either (a) homosexuals who are proud of what they do or (b) heterosexuals who understand the importance of reaching out to the gay community.