Posted on 11/16/2008 11:04:54 AM PST by Saundra Duffy
Hundreds of supporters of same-sex marriage gathered at Fresno City Hall on Saturday, vowing not to back down in their fight against Proposition 8 and urging a boycott of businesses that helped fund the initiative. They weren't alone. Coast-to-coast, crowds gathered near public buildings in small communities and major cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago to vent their frustrations, celebrate gay relationships and renew calls for change.
In Fresno, protesters turned their attention to what comes next. Matthew Payne of Fresno compared the same-sex marriage ban to former laws against biracial marriages and women's right to vote. He and other speakers vowed not to stop until same-sex marriages are legal again in California.
"We're not going to go back," Payne told the crowd, which a security officer estimated at about 500.
(Excerpt) Read more at fresnobee.com ...
Yeah! If I could be sure not to have them milling around Disneyland, I might consider going. We boycotted the place in the late ‘90s and haven’t visited since. This gay-free day could be a great money generator for Disney since parents would feel safe taking their kids.
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Which is just flat-out silly. Interracial couples can and do have children naturally, so laws against interracial marriage were clearly at odds with the natural order.
“Those who are gay are being asked not to spend money for a day to show the effect they have on the economy.”
So there will be a very negligible decline in condom sales that day, and possibly silk shirts as well. Somehow I think the economy will survive.
Agreed. No one wants to see public sex which is common place in liberal bastions like California, especially San Francisco.
But, don’t try and destroy the institution of marriage simply because it reminds you that your lifestyle is not healthy or biologically normal.
I think Asians went heavy as well.
What is REALY REALY fascinating is the suddent flowering of Prop 8 stories.
BEFORE NOVEMBER 4 it was hard enought to find ANY stories.
NOW that it passed, the MSM mob is flowing an endless supply of these stories.
don’t those shows have a “guests of the show stay at XXXXXXXXXXX hotel” sponsors?
Target that hotel chain.
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