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More than 500 people<\/a> – from Oshawa, Toronto, Sudbury, Calgary and Newfoundland – came to support the moms who were attacked outside their local elementary school.<\/p>\n

Kids at Gordon B. Attersley Public School<\/strong><\/a> witnessed the lesbian couple being verbally and physically assaulted while picking up their children. <\/p>\n

Speaking to the crowd Jane Currie said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are voices of hate in all of our cities and there are voices of hate in all of our religions and those voices of hate sometimes incite violence or sanction violence. We can disagree with each other without being hateful. So we want to hear from the voices of inclusion and we invite religious leaders in particular to speak out for inclusion. Eleven days ago, my life, our lives, your lives were forever changed. Now is the time for change. No more fear. No more anger. No more hate. I don\u2019t want our children, anybody\u2019s children, to be scared of who they are or what they are, regardless.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and Dimitriou were overwhelmed by the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank each and every one of you beautiful people that are here this evening. The people in front of me and the people behind me, you\u2019re all fantastic an d you have no idea how much your gestures have not gone unnoticed,\u201d said Currie.<\/p>\n

“And the support doesn\u2019t end in Canada, I don\u2019t know if you guys know that this has gone worldwide. It\u2019s not just here. It\u2019s gone to the (United) States, Australia, Turkey, Scotland, England, Costa Rica even Madrid. And everybody knows what happened, but now it\u2019s time to stop it from happening again to anybody. You guys showing up here just prove that we can change and we will change. We want to change all hate laws. We\u2019re talking about everybody. We don\u2019t care what race, what religion, what gender, it doesn\u2019t matter, hate is hate.”<\/p>\n

Wayne Harrison, vice-president of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) travelled from New Brunswick to bring a message that they will be working to have this crime \u201cupgraded to a hate crime to prevent the horrific and brutal assault of Anji and Jane\u201d from ever happening again.<\/p>\n

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