Some 600 protesters converged on the city core today, some demanding the removal of gender information from the Ontario curriculum, and others to show support for the 2SLGBTQ+ community
Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of the city Sept. 20, some as part of the One Million March for Children, a nationwide protest, and the others there to drown what they say is little more than hate speech.
There were also close to 50 children present as well. Part of the march’s protest action was a school walkout, with parents who supported the march asked to pull their children from school. There were also demands to remove gender information from the Ontario curriculum, and replace it with training for trades and “teach kids how to do their taxes,” as well as one of the main speakers at the event suggesting the group lookup “Agenda 2030,” a reference to the United Nations’s 17 sustainable development goals. He said that “We are under attack,” that the prime minister is working “with entities that we don’t agree with,” and that “we are the carbon they are trying to erase.
“When we are called to repent, or repent of our sins, it means to turn back around to the ways of God,” she said. “What we know, through the teachings of Jesus, and through the creation stories is that the way of God is the way of love and that all creatures are created in the image of that love. And so to say that somebody who is transgendered or gay or non-binary, somehow needs to repent? They're already made in the image of God.
One marcher, a man, screamed at several teenage counter-protesters who had flanked the group, attempting to have their voices heard above the speeches. He screamed for them to sit down, “f–k off” and had to be walked away by other marchers.
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