In preparation for Vancouver’s Pride Week, the city has painted tax-payer funded rainbow crosswalks onto the street; the rainbow crosswalks are to remain after Pride Week as a sign that Vancouver is an inclusive city – anyone at all can walk on them:
From here:
The rainbow crosswalks were put in over the weekend as part of the annual Pride Week in the city and feature two more colours than the usual pride flag.
Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson said that’s because they’re a throwback to the ‘70s.
“The eight colours is the original flag,” Stevenson said. “Since this is the 35th anniversary (of Pride Week) they decided to put the original eight colours in.”
He said the $25,000 project isn’t just for the crosswalks, picnic tables and plants that adorn the area, but also for making a nice little meeting point in the centre of city’s LGBTTQ community.
The Diocese of New Westminster is also doing its bit by displaying a rainbow stained glass window on its website – neither real nor permanent, I suspect – as a sign that it is an inclusive diocese. It is so inclusive that the largest Anglican church in Canada was driven out of the diocese; it’s funny how an over-abundance of inclusion tends to do that:
“…the broad road, that leads to destruction…”
+ Matthew 7:13
I am sure that whoever it was that decided to paint these crosswalks thought it a good idea. But does it not seem strange? If someone were to place an actual homosexual flag on the ground and walk on it, than it would be taken as a most grievous insult. Yet is not this exactly what is happening in the photo?
The rainbow bridge is a common mythological device. 🙂
“Pride” is a lot of BS. It’s not Carnival. It’s just a bunch of noisy, hideous, spiteful idiots in the street.