Love is Love is Love
Paige & I attended the Anti-Proposition 8 march today and I can’t believe what a great mother-daughter bonding experience it was. Last night we stayed up till around 10 pm creating posters and had a grand time thinking up slogans and chatting about what to expect. Paige landed on her take of the Wasilla church’s program to convert homosexual tendencies through prayer. She wrote:
“Pray Away the Prejudice”
This morning we had a pre-rally breakfast up on Capitol Hill – close to where the march started. Our friends Betsy & Kim joined us there and I think it made it all the more meaningful for Paige to feel like she was marching for the civil rights of her loved ones. You see, even though Betsy & Kim have been together for years and are one of the most loving couples that we know – they are unable to legally marry. We think that is sooooo stupid.
After breakfast we headed to Volunteer Park and gathered with over 3,000 other people who were fired up and ready to go. The crowd listened to a series of speakers, including Mayor Nickels who declared today “Marriage Equality Day.” The sun was on our side.
Even though people are predominately addressing this as a gay-marriage issue, Prop8 is really about stripping the civil rights of a group of people because they are gay. This sounds eerily familiar, kinda like when our country stripped withheld the basic civil rights of African Americans or Japanese Americans (hello internment camps!). It wasn’t that long ago when interracial marriages were illegal. If you ask me it sorta smells a bit unconstitutional and discriminatory to me. Scary.
It was amazing to see gay, straight, families, religiously affiliated and people across the diversity spectrum come out in support of this important issue.
Paige is one proud demonstrator and was so happy to see folks on the sidelines cheering the rally on. Power to the peeps!
Tags: anti-proposition 8, paige, Parenting, protest, rally, volunteer park
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9 Responses to “Love is Love is Love”
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“Pray away the prejudice”. That is beautiful, and so is she!
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“Even though people are predominately addressing this as a gay-marriage issue, Prop8 is really about stripping the civil rights of a group of people because they are gay.”
I agree.
Sounds like a wonderful experience!
Kudo’s to you and your daughter for standing up to this bigotry! My kids and I missed the rally today but we are planning on attending one in our town tomorrow!
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Awesome! For your daughter to share a day in standing up for what you believe in!
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Fight the power, Sisters!
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Awww, I love you guys…
I was buried in obligations yesterday and didn’t realize until it was too late that the rally was going on.
Sigh, I’m not a good activist any more.
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That rocks. My parents would have never done something like this with me. Good for you and Paige! It is awesome that you give her credit for understanding these issues and forming her own opinions.
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OMG I totally saw your daughter and probably you! We were right by you guys for a while.
I remembered the ‘prayer’ sign. How cool she has an open-minded mom (not everyone can say that).