Weekend Protests
National Protest for Gay Rights
I’ve never written that much about gay rights issues. I have a few gay friends, but it’s never been a major focus of my political consciousness. In the wake of Proposition 8, I’m seeings quite a bit differently. I don’t like bigots. I especially don’t like religiously motivated bigots who try to shove their views down other people’s throats.
The Mormons are the truly bad actors here, although there are all sorts of people to blame for voting for this truly monumental piece of shit. So if you’re at Broad and Market on Saturday, head down to Dilworth Plaza at City Hall, across from LOVE Park: protest starts at 1:30. I’m going to try and make it but might be late.
My neighborhood is getting hit hard by the Mayor’s cuts: we’re losing a pool, a sprayground, and the historic Kingsessing Library, which is shceduled to be closed and sold. This is a step too far: the senior citizens in my neighborhood depend on that library. It’s a resource and a benefit for a struggling community. To take the library AND the pools? That’s just cruel, kicking people who are already down in the face.
And I say that as someone who’s trying to help: I wrote the mayor this week with funding suggestions I’ve written about here the blog.
There’s a rally to save the Kingsessing Library tomorrow starting at 2:00 PM.
If you can, do both rallies. I’m going to try. It’s not right that children, senior citizens, individuals and families should lose their library due to the financial mismanagement of our national economy. It’s not right that religious bigots strip my friends and neighbors of rights they earned through decades of struggle. That shit ain’t right, and someone’s gotta say so.
Hope to see you tomorrow!
