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.
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Oh my, the poor little members of the other team are all upset that they're second-class citizens.
Well they're not. They are, for the most part, well-to-do, well-educated and well-housed, and without any violation of their rights whatsoever.
I don't care if these folks live together. But they musn't marry each other. Marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN. Period.
This is the life they chose - for whatever reasons. But choices have consequences - just like any other decision made about life.
If this is their only complaint, they are lucky.
I'm aluding to an incident where some firemen on staff sodomized a new employee with a broom handle. Disney controls the law of the land in their patch of land. The mouse has an evil house.
I've never been to, or lived in Disney Land, but thats another good reason to avoid the place.
Naw, vampires stick their teeth into people and suck their blood.
Homosexuals stick their...I mean they suck...Eww
point taken
yes!
This is low-level harrassment - defacement of public property. Roughly as significant socially as pigeon poop on a statue.
"Hick! Hey, Lampchop! How about a little roll in the hay! Hick?"
Leroy looks like a real wild man.
And this behavior is supposed to make me more...accepting of homosexuals? Ain't workin'. I tolerate. I do not accept.
Equal under the law. Complimentary, like salt and pepper, might be a better term.
But definitely NOT identical. We agree!
If this guy ever decided to start his own sheep farm, you can be assured that he wouldn't be selling "virgin" wool...LOL
ROFLMAO!
Even the word "queer" once had a useful, legitimate definition but has been highjacked like the word "gay". I'm all for just using the surgically correct terminology of homosexual, or Sodomite.
Nope. She voted for NADER, so she actually voted for KERRY.
Cool, where xan we get ours?? Bumper stickers that is.
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