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“We will be classed as traitors in God’s eyes, and we will live the darkest day in all of Canada’s history,” leaders wrote in a letter to Paul Martin, Canada’s then-prime minister. In 2005, riled by proposed legislation to make same-sex marriage legal in Canada, Hutterite leaders voiced their opposition in an unprecedented public stand. Hutterites don’t vote or run for public office, and the community in Canada has spoken out just once in recent history. Everything from meals to housing is provided, and members are expected to work and adhere to the faith. Access to technology varies among colonies in Hofer’s colony the internet that flows through the service provider set up by Hutterites in Manitoba is heavily filtered. Hutterites, who arrived in North America from Russia in the 1800s, often grow their own food, sew their own clothes and build their own homes. The outside world felt far away, he says. He first heard the word “gay” when he was 14. “It’s a very sex-averse culture.” As a teenager, Hofer’s friends talked about girls and their attraction to them but never brought up sex. “There’s so many gay Hutterites and there’s nobody talking about the subject.”īut while Hofer was growing up, sex was not a topic to be addressed in public. One of the few – if not the only – openly gay Hutterites, Hofer has become a rare voice pushing for greater acceptance among the community, whose nearly 50,000 members live in more than 450 colonies in western Canada and the United States.