Marriage Equality
14 June 2007 14:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juldeaYay Massachusetts. :)
I left work today, grabbed some food, and walked over to the State House. Outside was packed with supporters of both sides lining the street. I wandered around a bit, looking for people I knew (like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
laura47), not finding anyone. I stood and ate my chinese food in the crowd, just listening and smiling. I was teased by one guy for having delicious smelling food. Not ten minutes after I got there, a woman behind me on the phone found out that we won. She didn't shout it out, but I guess others did, because within 30 seconds the place was turned into a cheering, crying, smiling mob. Hooray! I ended up finding laura47 around then, and we chatted a bit. We were interrupted as the crowd began singing The Star-Spangled Banner, which we joined loudly. We were both amused by the no buttsex signs across the street. (Two red rectangular signs featuring stick figures of the universal-male/female-bathroom-signs variety, one bent over, the other behind, and a diagonal "no" slash through the whole thing.) There was a group of old ladies behind us, the Raging Grannies, singing "Chapel of Love" with newly-written verses about the topic. That was the first moment where I teared up. laura had to leave and go back to work. I spent a little while searching for whomever was giving away MassEquality stickers, but failed to find them. Eventually I left, and as I walked to Park Street Station through Boston Common I heard the crowd start up another go at The Star-Spangled Banner. Queue wet eyes #2. The day didn't seem as miserable and cold anymore. I also started getting teary because I was so happy and wanted to remember those moments for the rest of my life, but know that it's likely not going to happen because I have a broken memory. My consolation was that I could come home and make this post, and maybe it'll help me hold on to that smile for longer.
To all my friends, wherever on the Kinsey scale you fall, I wish you love and life. Treasure it well.
I left work today, grabbed some food, and walked over to the State House. Outside was packed with supporters of both sides lining the street. I wandered around a bit, looking for people I knew (like
laura47), not finding anyone. I stood and ate my chinese food in the crowd, just listening and smiling. I was teased by one guy for having delicious smelling food. Not ten minutes after I got there, a woman behind me on the phone found out that we won. She didn't shout it out, but I guess others did, because within 30 seconds the place was turned into a cheering, crying, smiling mob. Hooray! I ended up finding laura47 around then, and we chatted a bit. We were interrupted as the crowd began singing The Star-Spangled Banner, which we joined loudly. We were both amused by the no buttsex signs across the street. (Two red rectangular signs featuring stick figures of the universal-male/female-bathroom-signs variety, one bent over, the other behind, and a diagonal "no" slash through the whole thing.) There was a group of old ladies behind us, the Raging Grannies, singing "Chapel of Love" with newly-written verses about the topic. That was the first moment where I teared up. laura had to leave and go back to work. I spent a little while searching for whomever was giving away MassEquality stickers, but failed to find them. Eventually I left, and as I walked to Park Street Station through Boston Common I heard the crowd start up another go at The Star-Spangled Banner. Queue wet eyes #2. The day didn't seem as miserable and cold anymore. I also started getting teary because I was so happy and wanted to remember those moments for the rest of my life, but know that it's likely not going to happen because I have a broken memory. My consolation was that I could come home and make this post, and maybe it'll help me hold on to that smile for longer.To all my friends, wherever on the Kinsey scale you fall, I wish you love and life. Treasure it well.
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on 14 Jun 2007 20:20 (UTC)I told the boy some time ago that if we ever get married, I'll only do it in MA.
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on 14 Jun 2007 20:48 (UTC)Thanks.
on 14 Jun 2007 20:36 (UTC)As you know, I am conflicted over this issue, so I'm trying to stay out of the content of these discussions. But I'm glad you had a happy and memorable day.
Re: Thanks.
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on 14 Jun 2007 23:57 (UTC)Ya know, its just sweeter because we can now see the "No Buttsex" sign holding people have their perverbial cheerios peed in :P
I never understood why it mattered to other people...The whole bs line of it devaluing marriage doesn't hold water with me...If your marriage is worth less to you because someone else you DON'T EVEN KNOW did something, you've got bigger problems than just being a homophobe!
See now, I'm not for gay marriage. I'm not against gay marriage. I"m not for or against anything - I'm demanding of equal rights for everyone no matter what. I'm tired of the preachings of tolerance - tolerance is bullshit. We should be aiming for acceptance. Things are what they are. If they don't affect you, then it shouldn't matter! People are just too egocentric these days to think that everything in the world that other people do affects them directly - it doesn't.
See, I just don't care. You're straight? I don't care. You're gay? I don't care. You're transgender? I don't care. You're bisexual? I don't care. Are you human? Are you a good person? Cool - I dig ya. I don't care what other people do - AS LONG AS what they're doing isn't keeping others from having the same freedoms. Its just plain crap. I can't stand it. And who the hell are the hetero crowd to decide who can get married and who can't?! why? because they've got it all figured out?! With a 54% divorce rate...yeah....they're just the poster children for such a "sacred institution". I think the shitheads that are against equal marriage rights are just afraid that someone will do it better than they will :P Fucking pompus asses.
What define's your worth as a person are what you contribute to the world. Its how you treat your spirit and those around you. That's what defines a person.
Oh lord, I got on a soap box - sorry about that :P
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on 14 Jun 2007 23:58 (UTC)no subject
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on 15 Jun 2007 16:12 (UTC)