City of Merritt rejects request for rainbow crosswalk

“It is a disappointment because some of the arguments I found to be very weak arguments, saying that you know, then the expectation would be from other service clubs like the Merritt Centennials, that they might want their colours down by the arena, or maybe Rotary would want their colours,” he says.”But we know from seeing these sidewalks all over the province, you don’t get a flood of service clubs asking to have their colours put on crosswalks across a city.”

Comeau adds the whole idea was to help raise awareness around LGBTQ issues just as Pink Shirt Day raises awareness around bullying.

“And really that’s all these rainbow sidewalks do, they bring awareness to the community that there are different groups of people and they’re not all of the same persuasion and that we need to have tolerance and acceptance of not just individuals, but groups of individuals.”

He adds the issue isn’t dead noting the board will now look to adopt an alternate plan to perhaps install a rainbow crosswalk somewhere on school district property.

by Greg Fry

City of Merritt rejects request for rainbow crosswalk

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