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Originally posted October 7, 2003:

This is for John, because he yelled at me. :)

Okay. This is the National Marriage Week Proclamation, which in case you didn't know, begins on the anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death. I fully expect that by this point there is not a single person on my friends list or my friends-of list who has not read this.

Edit: I would also just like to point out [info]thebratqueen's commentary on how anti-gay the rhetoric on marriageprotectionweek.com actually is: Their efforts are intended to force, by law, 97% of Americans to bow down to the desires of the approximately 3% who are homosexuals.

My first impulse is not even to dignify it with comment because it is SO repulsive that the very act of saying "this is repulsive" implies that there's some kind of argument that could be made about it, that there is some sort of reasonable expectation that other people would find it in some way defensible. There *is* no argument. This is indefensible. This is fascist rhetoric. This is an insult to the memory of Matthew Shepard. This is an insult to every single person in America, and an insult to me personally, as a child of a single mom who was raised by my mother and my grandmother in a wonderful, blessed family structure. I don't feel it necessary to say how horrid it is. It is so glaringly obvious I don't feel it needs to be dignified with a discussion.

So instead I will simply point to what Jen said, because, Dude. Amen.

Now. I am going to herd you all over to John's journal out of fairness, because he has made a nice and tidy list of things you can do to speak out, for all those of you who feel compelled to do so. However, I have to say that while it's fun and motivational, I really feel it defeats the purpose to be making livejournal rants and livejournal icons, ONLY because dude, face it. We're all liberals here. We all hate Bush. I have yet to experience the shock of seeing a single person on my friends list come out as an openly conservative supporter of this administration. I will be *extremely* surprised if anyone, anyone at all, who reads my journal falls into that category. It doesn't make any sense to me to preach to the choir.

So instead of us all shouting at each other--my head hurts-- here are some ways to preach instead to the rest of the cold cruel utterly DELUDED world, and those utterly deluded people who are making the rules around this mess of a country.