The Bible forbids it,” area resident Jacob Peters says, calmly, of same-sex relationships as he walks along the city’s main street on a sunny afternoon. I can remember as early as Grade 3, being told that I was going to hell for liking Harry Potter.”“I didn’t think I would ever hear the words ‘Steinbach pride’ in my life,” Weins says. Bullied as a gay teenager in Steinbach, Man., the heart of the province’s so-called Bible Belt, Weins is now watching as others in the small city organize its first-ever pride march, set for July 9. She filed a human rights complaint and found herself as one of the organizers of the city’s first pride march. The size of that turnout and the fact a pride march is in the works, is a signal for Weins.

Source: thestar July 03, 2016 17:26 UTC