The boyfriend and I decided to go for a quick jaunt to Downtown Crossing to do some winter shopping. We were jostling with the Saturday afternoon crowd trying to get out of the rain and into Filene’s Basement, when this short Asian lady shoves a clipboard in front of Knox, and points at it, trying to get us to read it and sign it. On the clipboard is a computer printout, in a large font, urging us to “SIGN PETITION TO DEFEND TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE.”
Ooh, that got me angry. I rushed past the lady into the store, throwing her a scathing look and saying as pointedly as I could, “We’re GAY.” Did she understand me? I’m not even sure she spoke English, given how she kept pointing and gesturing. At any rate, my blood was was boiling, and the frenzy of shoppers in the store did nothing to calm my nerves.
Later tonight, we were thinking that maybe I should have told her that “traditional marriage” would have her in the kitchen, pregnant, barefoot, and rightless, or that if she weren’t enjoying the fruits of a liberal society she would be working in the mines or in a sweatshop.
Sigh.
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Right on! That lady is so annoying. So true about her freedoms in a liberal society as well. Sure, she has every right to be out there as I have a right to speak my mind, but the petition and the question are just so mean-spirited and misguided. Marriage for GLBT people will happen all over the country someday, and there’s nothing that will stop that.
Is there any law against just taking the petition? I mean, the lady is ‘giving’ it to you, so take it… and all those other signatures. There are trash cans aplenty, better yet, shredders.<BR/><BR/>Now I wish I lived in a more populated part of the state so I could try this!