Yesterday was my daughter’s 32nd birthday. My Gawd! How OLD AM I?!!? I know how old I feel while sitting here at the computer; it’s when I stand up I start to feel it. So you know how important it must be to me to march or stand in one spot for awhile at my age. /*snort*/
Since the failure of Proposition 8 in California, the rage has been the focus on gay marriage and it’s ‘not happening’ mantra from those who poured millions of bucks into the campaign against it. I have no problem with the rage – I’m just flummoxed why ANYONE would want to get married, and I often tell other folks: “I don’t care who marries who as long as no one marries me.”
Now imagine my surprise when this was encountered at City Hall on the corner of 6th & Idaho and Main Streets. It was much greater than I expected. I was thrilled.
And that – that was my favorite sign; it was one of the first I saw actually. The Idaho Statesman has the story along with a photo gallery of which this picture is part.
Both Channel 7 (KTVB) and Channel 6 (KIVI) have stories and video. The surprising one for me that I heard about – Idaho Falls. Here’s video from Channel 8. You remember the Idaho Falls area. It’s not far from this area where some 2nd & 3rd graders were last heard chanting ‘assassinate Obama’ on a school bus. Talk about some kind of weird dichotomy. KIDK was the station in Idaho Falls who reported on the school bus incident; here’s their report on the Proposition 8 protest in Idaho Falls as well.
Filed under: Culture & Society, Idaho, Same-sex marriage
I think that it’s time that we lifted the LDS Church’s tax-exempt status just before we forcibly annul all marriages performed in LDS temples.
Then, and only then, we’ll it be possible to debate the marriage issue on a level playing field.
Why stop with the LDS Church? Let’s move quickly to the Catholics and beyond. We might leave out the Quakers and the Unitarians – just because we can.