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Nov. 17th, 2008 09:16 amFirst and foremost a great big thank you to everyone who showed up for the Anti H8 rally on Saturday. We got a great, enthusiastic crowd in downtown MV and only a couple of haters showed up to try to spoil our fun. Thankfully we had a couple of true warrior women in our group who weren't afraid to stand up to them. The rest of us shrugged off their nonsense and kept on waving at the well wishers and displaying our signs.
We also had a great deal of fun encouraging![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moonlightnrain and her lovely girlfriend L- to kiss for the cameras. A consensus of us in attendance decided that little disposable cameras would be a great wedding favor. :)
If you'd like to help continue the fight I happily point you at Join the Impact and at the very handy Anti-Gay Blacklist, the latter is a very helpful list of local companies that donated to Prop H8 so you can avoid throwing any money in their direction. As TBogg points out:
The kind of person who contributes money to deny their fellow citizens their civil rights are not someday magically going to be part of the solution: they're the problem. These are not people to be reasoned with; they're ignorant, they're haters and they're bigots and the only thing people like that understand is power.
So when they stick their noses in other people's affairs, they forfeit the right to be considered just another "ordinary person". They're involved and they would be foolish to expect that those other people in whose private affairs they have meddled wouldn't return the favor. As they say: you pays your money and you takes your chances.
You don't get to heaven above by trampling someone else's heaven on earth.
Amen. While I'm not terribly happy with the concept of a "blacklist" per se, I don't see why my money should be going anywhere near people who want to take away the rights of my friends and loved ones. So if you contributed to Prop H8 don't expect to get my business.
In other news had a great appointment with my dermatologist this morning who gave me the thumb's up and sent me on my way. And I even woke up to a great dream, which almost never happens. It's looking like I'm off to a great week.
We also had a great deal of fun encouraging
moonlightnrain and her lovely girlfriend L- to kiss for the cameras. A consensus of us in attendance decided that little disposable cameras would be a great wedding favor. :)If you'd like to help continue the fight I happily point you at Join the Impact and at the very handy Anti-Gay Blacklist, the latter is a very helpful list of local companies that donated to Prop H8 so you can avoid throwing any money in their direction. As TBogg points out:
The kind of person who contributes money to deny their fellow citizens their civil rights are not someday magically going to be part of the solution: they're the problem. These are not people to be reasoned with; they're ignorant, they're haters and they're bigots and the only thing people like that understand is power.
So when they stick their noses in other people's affairs, they forfeit the right to be considered just another "ordinary person". They're involved and they would be foolish to expect that those other people in whose private affairs they have meddled wouldn't return the favor. As they say: you pays your money and you takes your chances.
You don't get to heaven above by trampling someone else's heaven on earth.
Amen. While I'm not terribly happy with the concept of a "blacklist" per se, I don't see why my money should be going anywhere near people who want to take away the rights of my friends and loved ones. So if you contributed to Prop H8 don't expect to get my business.
In other news had a great appointment with my dermatologist this morning who gave me the thumb's up and sent me on my way. And I even woke up to a great dream, which almost never happens. It's looking like I'm off to a great week.
