So I just got home from the rally I mentioned in my previous posting...and I had a blast. I walked up (a little late) to see fundies and rally-ers screaming back and forth. Oh, the signs of the fundies were so cute: "Homosexuality is to die for" "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" "AIDS cures Homosexuality" I even saw the guy who holds up the "Read the Bible Daily" sign during Tech football games.

Finally the cops (five cars of them) got the fundies to go across the street and we began. It was a youth rally, so most of the speakers were in high school. Mostly they gave their thoughts, and some couldn't help a jab or two at the screaming weasels across the street, who used bullhorn warfare on us (ooh, spooky!). One youngin read this list of reason why gays should NOT be allowed to marry. It was funny as hell.

Keisha Cunningham, a councilwomen from Decatur, came to speak and fired up the crowd with the chant, "We're here, we're queer, get used to it!" Unfortuantly, the fundies were quick to make up their own version "We're queer, we're gonna to Hell, get used to it!"...and one guy was just a tad too interested in anal sex to be a good, upstanding Christian, with all the talk of "plundering" and "fecal matter"...

All in all, I had a good time..it was just what I needed...hee..

Time for me to get political, folks.

There is going to be a rally today at the Capital for youth against Amendment 1 from 4 to 6. For those, for some reason, not aware of this, Amendment 1 is the amendment that bans the slightest chance of gay marriage. Now I know that people's personal opinions on the subject vary, but amending the state Constitution in such a way is just wrong. Don't worry, I'm not going to try to sway you with emotional arguements. If you want to come along to this rally and support the cause, fine, come on then. I'll be at the house around 3, and will be leaving via MARTA at 3:30. You'll be back at the house before Plegde Ed.

So, I've just done something political that I've never done before. I've written my senators, urging them to vote against the Federal Marriage Amendment (the amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman). Now, given that those senators are Zell Miller (old-school Democrat)and Saxby Chambliss (Republican), I'm not sure if my words, or anybody else's that is also against this stupid thing, will even matter. But I can at least say I did something.

So the Mass. courts are finally coming to their senses with this whole "gay marriage" thing. ANd of course, the right wing nut jobs are lamenting that the end of marriage is near. What I've never understood is how could letting two men or two women or three people or whatever combination of consenting adults enter a civil union hurts the one man-one women unit. None of these wackos ever explains this to anyone while they're wailing.

And besides, why should the fucking government concern itself with who gets hitched anyway? Don't they have bigger shit to deal with?