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No she's not back I'm Amy
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I just watched the most amazing exchange. It’s a nice warm sunny day here in So. Cali. I’ve got all the windows open because it is beautiful outside. The birds are chirping, the suns shining and the couple that live across the street just finished having a LOUD argument in their from lawn.
The man and lady that live across the street are a couple of retired people and they are members of an evangelical Christian congregation (the kind that walks the neighborhood on weekends with bibles in their hands). We have not exactly had “warm” relations with these folks. When we first bought our house the came to visit and told us that they didn’t approve of lesbians and wished we would either “find salvation or move”.
Helen, the neighbor lady, obviously had just finished putting a Vote Yes on Prop 8 sign in her front yard. Chuck, her husband, became aware of this and apparently took umbrage. The first I knew of this was when I hear him tell his wife “pull that darned thing out before Sue or Amy see it!.”
Helen’s response was “but Minister XXXXXXX told us we had to have it there!”
Now that they had caught my attention, I watched out the window as Chuck summarily pulled up the sign and tore it in half, loudly stating “I don’t give a good wiff what Minister XXXXXXX said. Prop 8 is wrong and you know it!”
[Quoted from Wikipedia: Proposition 8 is an initiative measure on the 2008 California General Election ballot titled Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.[1][2] If passed, the proposition would change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California[3]. A new section would be added stating "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."]
At this point Joyce, one of my next-door neighbors “strode” across the street and told her “Helen, if you put that sign up and hurt Sue’s feelings I’ll never talk to you again!” Now Joyce was another one who, when we moved in, made it REAL clear that she didn’t approve of our lifestyle either.
Helen looked quite embarrassed and said “I know it’s wrong, but Minister XXXXXXX said that he was going to check to see that everyone had a sign and that if we didn’t we would be identified and called to account during Sunday services.”
Chuck just stared at her and flatly said “Then I think it’s time we found a new church that isn’t run by an ignorant bigot! I’m not going to attend a church that supports taking away the happiness that I see between those two women and their daughters.”
Helen responded by saying “Well, I think you are probably right. You know that I like both of them and Lizzy and Tina [our six year old daughters] are the sweetest, best behaved children in the world. I wish those two would give parenting lessons to XXX and XXXXXX [their son and daughter-in-law!]” Everybody then went back inside their respective houses.
I’m sitting here crying because I know that a few years ago Chuck would have gone to get a hammer and Joyce would have held the stake for her. Progress, oh sweet progress!
P.S. Vote NO on California Prop 8
The man and lady that live across the street are a couple of retired people and they are members of an evangelical Christian congregation (the kind that walks the neighborhood on weekends with bibles in their hands). We have not exactly had “warm” relations with these folks. When we first bought our house the came to visit and told us that they didn’t approve of lesbians and wished we would either “find salvation or move”.
Helen, the neighbor lady, obviously had just finished putting a Vote Yes on Prop 8 sign in her front yard. Chuck, her husband, became aware of this and apparently took umbrage. The first I knew of this was when I hear him tell his wife “pull that darned thing out before Sue or Amy see it!.”
Helen’s response was “but Minister XXXXXXX told us we had to have it there!”
Now that they had caught my attention, I watched out the window as Chuck summarily pulled up the sign and tore it in half, loudly stating “I don’t give a good wiff what Minister XXXXXXX said. Prop 8 is wrong and you know it!”
[Quoted from Wikipedia: Proposition 8 is an initiative measure on the 2008 California General Election ballot titled Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry.[1][2] If passed, the proposition would change the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California[3]. A new section would be added stating "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."]
At this point Joyce, one of my next-door neighbors “strode” across the street and told her “Helen, if you put that sign up and hurt Sue’s feelings I’ll never talk to you again!” Now Joyce was another one who, when we moved in, made it REAL clear that she didn’t approve of our lifestyle either.
Helen looked quite embarrassed and said “I know it’s wrong, but Minister XXXXXXX said that he was going to check to see that everyone had a sign and that if we didn’t we would be identified and called to account during Sunday services.”
Chuck just stared at her and flatly said “Then I think it’s time we found a new church that isn’t run by an ignorant bigot! I’m not going to attend a church that supports taking away the happiness that I see between those two women and their daughters.”
Helen responded by saying “Well, I think you are probably right. You know that I like both of them and Lizzy and Tina [our six year old daughters] are the sweetest, best behaved children in the world. I wish those two would give parenting lessons to XXX and XXXXXX [their son and daughter-in-law!]” Everybody then went back inside their respective houses.
I’m sitting here crying because I know that a few years ago Chuck would have gone to get a hammer and Joyce would have held the stake for her. Progress, oh sweet progress!
P.S. Vote NO on California Prop 8
from the good little witch.
