apocalypsos | (no subject)

The thing I love about this is ... well, everything. But my favorite things were the huge photos with "wedding" written on them a dozen times, the kids participating in their parents's marriage, the classrooms of children showing up to witness history.

Was all of this civil disobedience? In a way, yes. But looking back at other civil rights movements, civil obedience didn't get you half as far as disobedience did.

I love this page, because I'm seeing beautiful, happy people. You can't convince me that anything that results in this much happiness can be sinful. I'm already convinced, however, that the hateful remarks heard by protestors outside those walls are incredibly sinful.

Yesterday, I saw a minister on CNN telling the reporter that marriage shouldn't be available for homosexuals because it's defined in the Bible and marriage is a religious thing, and I damn near threw something at the screen. It's times like this I kind of wished I'd stuck with the whole journalism thing, because my next question would have been something along the lines of, "Well, sir, if that's true, then shouldn't all legal marriages be dissolved in accordance with the separation of church and state?"

Look, in thirty years, when our grandkids come racing home with social studies homework, this is a week they're going to want to ask us about. "Why couldn't gay people get married? That's so stupid. Why would anyone protest that?" Although if I'm being honest here, I kind of like the fact that they're out there protesting. As

thebratqueen has pointed out, in this country I get to hear your lousy opinion whether I like it or not. And hey, later on, when everybody gets over themselves and they finally just let everybody just marry already, I'm not going to look like an asshat, the guy with the "Homosexuality is a horrible, horrible sin!" placard is.

Look at that photo scrapbook, guys. People are crying, people are smiling, people just can't stop applauding. There are lesbians in wedding dresses and gays in tuxedos. Families are there for support. Mommies and daddies brought their kids to their weddings. The line to get into City Hall is so long people were having pizza delivered. Ex-boyfriends are giving guys away to their new husbands. Couples who have been together for years, if not decades, are finally getting a chance to shout their love to the hills, regardless of what might happen come Tuesday. I'm trying to find the evil here, and I'm coming up with a big nothing.

Sorry for the ramble, it's just ... I spent yesterday at the Holocaust Museum. After seeing all that, I didn't need to come home to see pictures of protestors standing outside San Fran's city hall. It's spoiled and stupid and has far too many parallels to shit I saw yesterday in that museum.

Okay, ramble over. :)