When around 40 protesters picketed the Rainbow School Board Office today, the found themselves dwarfed by a passionate and colourful crowd of counter-protesters
When approximately 40 anti-2SLGBTQ+ protestors picketed the Rainbow District School Board office and the former Wembley Public School today, they were met by more than 200 passionate and colourfully adorned counter-protestors.
The protestors arrived with Canadian flags hanging out their windows, honking as they made their way down Wembley Drive. They parked further away, and walked past the counter-protestors, shouting about their belief in a Christian god making only man and woman, claiming the school board was grooming and indoctrinating children with information about sexuality, and expressing anger that schools in the area allowed Pride flags to be flown.
Sauvé, who is gay, owns and operates The Cake Guy. He said he felt the need to do something to counter the messaging from the anti-2SLGBTQ+ group. At one point, the anti-2SLGBTQ side offered a microphone to counter-protestors. Those counter-protestors asked questions like “Why are you here and why do you have so much hate?” to which the anti -2SLGBTQ+ protestors replied that their goal was to “save the children.” This ended within 10 minutes as both sides withdrew from each other at the urging of plain clothes Greater Sudbury Police officers. Other uniformed officers arrived soon after.
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