Len Brown wastes $100,000 of your rates’ money on gay parade

In a recent article, TVNZ, in part, reported the following:

“The event which celebrated the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community was last held in 2001, and was then known as the Hero Parade.

But it stopped after running into financial difficulty.

However corporate sponsorship and $100,000 from the Auckland Council got the event back on its heels and it was a family friendly event this time round.”

So, yes, Len Brown has just wasted $100,000 of your hard-earned money on nonsense like this:

Herald video

Len Brown: “This is an historic occasion and this city is uniting in the spirit of what we can do, not what we can’t do.”

Besides the obvious imagination-less ‘can do’ copy from Obama’s playbook, Brown is saying let’s celebrate diversity; let’s embrace it; let’s celebrate sodomy; let’s celebrate AIDS; let’s celebrate male on male sexual promiscuity; let's celebrate genital diseases; let's celebrate gay depression and alcoholism; let’s celebrate the promotion of homosexuality; let’s celebrate moral degradation; let’s celebrate…………………..at your expense.

Based on the opposition to gay marriage, I would suggest that over 50% of Aucklanders would not like to see their rates’ money squandered on stupidity like this especially when Stuff, in part, reported:

“Rates increases, dog registration fee rises, a multi-million dollar land sale as well as increasing debt by nearly $1 billion are all part of Auckland Council's Draft Annual Plan which has now gone out for public consultation.”

But, no, Brown would like to see the gay parade become an annual event much like the Santa Parade…….. ‘Oh, mummy mummy, can I say hello to Santa the homosexual?’

In the video, you may have noticed the New Zealand Defence Force marching in the gay parade which just goes to show how well John Key is controlling our tax dollars—I guess great minds like Key and Brown think alike; let’s normalise homosexuality by placing the military in the parade.

And of course TVNZ, Key’s liberal spin room, spun it this way:

“And in a New Zealand first, the parade featured members of the New Zealand Defence Force marching in uniform.

"It's a great opportunity for the Defence Force to demonstrate that it's a truly modern military, one that values all of its people and recognises that diversity is one of our key strengths as opposed to a weakness," said Stu Pearce of the Defence Force.”

You may have noticed the following placard in the video as well:

Brown’s cynical arrogance makes my blood boil; to take money from me and 50% of other Aucklanders who are vehemently opposed to gay marriage and use it to odiously promote it is detestable beyond belief. Would he have allowed a “Protect Marriage-One man, One Woman’ placard in the parade? I think not.

Then of course Cameron Slater, another one of Key’s liberal spin doctors, in a blog post about Grant Robinson said this:

“The flamboyant gay or butch lesbian of the past is a stereotype of a bygone era. Gays come out earlier, are no longer as isolated in their own community, and most straight people know gays & lesbians to be good people who are attracted to the same sex rather than the opposite sex.”

I don’t know where this guy has buried his head; if the following aren’t flamboyant, then I don’t know what the word means. These are all photos of the gay parade:

And then of course, this is perfect for children just like we see in the Santa Parade:

And then, according to Slater ‘straight people know gays & lesbians to be good people.’ This photo is of a gay parade in London—‘good people’ indeed: