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Pedophile comments concern gay community --

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's minister of education has angered 
members of the territory's gay community with comments she made 
during the legislature's recent human rights debate.

Thompson was wrong to link homosexuality with pedophilia, says a 
gay activist in Iqaluit

The debate, which ended with the territory passing a new Human 
Rights Act, focussed on whether sexual orientation should be 
included as a reason to protect against discrimination.

During the debate, Manitok Thompson mentioned convicted sex 
offender Edward Horne, and the damage Horne inflicted on 
numerous young boys in the territory.

Comments like that concern Allison Brewer, a spokesperson for 
Iqaluit Pride. She says linking Horne in the context of a 
discussion on sexual orientation perpetuates misconceptions that 
homosexuals are pedophiles.

She says pedophiles are people who prey on children of their own 
sex, or the opposite sex.

"Bringing in issues like pedophilia and polygamy and those kinds 
of things, she's torn a page from Elsie Wayne's book," she says. 
"That was her rallying cry when she opposed sexual orientation 
in the New Brunswick's Human Rights Act and later when she 
opposed it in the Charter of rights and Freedoms."

Brewer also says there wasn't enough information conveyed to the 
public about the Human Rights Act.

She believes that's why the debate in the legislature lasted for 
hours.

Many people, including several MLAs, thought the legislative 
assembly would be approving same-sex marriages if they approved 
the Human Rights Act.

That is not included in the Act.