‘Couldn’t be prouder’

Dear Editor:

RE: Rainbow criticism, June 9.

My rainbow flag is blowing and dancing in the wind as I type this, bringing a smile to my face.

It lets my children and all children, and all people for that matter, know that they are accepted. The “current rainbow-themed movement” is brilliant. I could not be prouder of the people in our community for being open and welcoming of the changes in our society.

I am, however, saddened that there are people, so close to home, that would look at a beautiful rainbow flag and be disgusted by the thought of love and equality for everyone.

For anyone that needs a lesson in what to tell a young child when they ask what the rainbow flag represents: tell them it relays the plain truth that people don’t fit into a box anymore, and that they never did. And that maybe the people that once upon a time had to hide who they were don’t need to feel any shame whatsoever for who they were born to be.

Maybe when a young child asks what the rainbow flag (in this situation means) you could simply say, “Love, just love.”

Samantha McDougall, Fergus