Posted on 03/08/2006 8:04:41 AM PST by dukeman
BOISE - Stickers saying "Heterosexuals Only" were placed on bus benches and public drinking fountains in downtown Boise and at the Statehouse Monday morning.
A group of gay and lesbian activists, who spoke to KBCI-Local 2 News on condition of anonymity, put up the 150 stickers to protest the legislature's passage of a proposed constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage in Idaho, which voters will face in November.
"This was an issue we cared a great deal about," one activist told Local 2 News. "It affects us personally, it affects friends and family of ours."
The group says it used the "Heterosexuals Only" stickers to symbolize "Whites Only" and "Colored Only" stickers from past discrimination in the history of the American civil rights movement.
"In the struggle for human rights, an iconic image of that struggle has been signs that exclude classes of people," an activist said. "You know, 'Whites Only' on drinking fountains, or blacks to the back of the bus."
The group also said it selected Monday March 6 because it was the anniversary of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march during the civil rights struggle.
Boise police reported no incidents or arrests, although the gay and lesbian activists said they were prepared to be taken into custody.
"You could make the case we were littering, or doing something more aggressive," an activist said. "Realistically, we have to be worried because there is some risk. I think we all have come together and decided the risk is worth taking a stand. I hope people will realize this...is a model of resistance that falls into a historical basis and they won't decide to be extremely punitive."
At the Statehouse, some legislative leaders disapproved not only of the way the group chose to express its message, but they also said the message itself is wrong.
"Because I think everybody has the same rights here in Idaho and we're not taking any body's rights away," said Sen. Bob Geddes, (R) Soda Spring, president pro tem of the Idaho Senate.
The stickers were easily removed, and were up only a short time. The gay and lesbian activists hope their symbolic message lasts longer.
Homosexuals have the same right to marry as heterosexuals in this country.
Anyone can marry anyone else of legal age of consent who is not a close relative, but is of the opposite gender.
You've got mutants who invade people's heads and read their minds, mutants who steal other people's identities, and some who behave as terrorists (and the good and the bad partner up against the rest of the world) and yet the filmmakers still spun the second film as having a context about "homosexuals being born that way" and "accept me, mom".
The mutants in that film (and comic book series) have no qualms about violating other peoples civil rights. It is a lousy analogy to try to make (not you, Marvel and the studios).
Have you told her how you will vote?
I can't marry someone who is already married. Yet adultry laws are no longer on the books. Why is this other law still on the books? < /s >
The sex positive agenda seeks to end all moral judgements about sexual pairings regardless of age, sex, number, relation, marital status, or species of partner.
There's that "Blacks are the same as homosexuals" crap again! If I were black, I'd be furious the homos were riding on my enslaved ancestors backs (literally sticking it to them) to push their queer agenda.
"This was an issue we cared a great deal about," one activist told Local 2 News. "It affects us personally, it affects friends and family of ours."
Well, "activist," it's also an issue many heteros care a great deal about, and it affects them personally, as well as THEIR friends and families. Your strong feelings and personal involvement don't accord you any moral high ground.
I agree. I want some of these stickers.
Of course. She's my sister. If I can't duke it out with her, who can I duke it out with? LOL!
She knows I think her views are warped. She's actually pretty conservative in many other ways, except for this gay activism stuff, so we do have some common ground. She's getting older (she's 41, I'm 45) and is finally starting to get a clue.
That's a dangerous tagline on a thread such as this!
Homosexuals should have their third sex bathrooms/locker rooms if they are going to continue cruising for anonymous sexual encounters in bathrooms and peeking on other people doing their business. And then there are the men who "consider themselves" female (even in the absence of any surgery or dress) and use the women's room.
For privacy and santitation, this is quite arguable.
Why am I not surprised that this fine citizen is from Mesa?
But, in spite of hosting about 3/4's of the pedophiles in the great state of Arizony, Mesa also has the strictest anti-smoking laws. Mere coincidence?
LOL!
I just saw that.
Some heterosexuals in college tried to come up with some sort of a sticker years ago (something different than the rainbow flag or pink triangle) to identify themselves as heterosexual (in part for flirting purposes and in part to take a stand).
I think they went with hot dogs and tacos (pink tacos for women, I don't remember the color of the hot dog, purple?).
Oi. cowboyway, You are my inspiration for today.
It was a case of,
Wham Bam, Thank you Lamb!
You seem to forget that most of them were originally 'refugees'from the east. Now they're just heading 'home' and leaving behind the 'healthy goodness' they brought to the West Coast. If you think this is is a 'Western' problem, dream on.
LOL. Good point!
So did she vote for Bush?
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