Love this sign!
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This secret was sent into PostSecret and published on Sunday in this week’s batch of secrets. If you don’t already know, PostSecret is a community art project where people submit their secrets on post cards anonymously to project organizer, Frank Warren, in order to share them with the world.
Telling a secret, even anonymously, can be a liberating feeling and the secrets range from serious to humorous, but always contain an element of humanity that we can all identify with on some level.
We saw this secret and were wondering, do other people feel this way? Is marriage equality becoming too much of a focal point?
Republican Senator Greg Ball Turning to Social Media to Decide His Vote
Republican Senator Greg Ball is turning to Facebook and Twitter to let Americans have a say in swaying his vote on gay marriage! You can tweet at him to vote YES on Marriage Equality @ball4ny.
Or ‘Like’ his Facebook page and leave a comment urging the Senator to vote YES!!
www.facebook.com/ball4ny
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“On Twitter, the feedback is overwhelmingly in favor of a yes vote on the bill, which has yet to be formally introduced by the state senate’s GOP leadership. On Ball’s Facebook page, where users are generally less anonymous and more tend to be residents of his Hudson Valley district, response is more mixed, with Ball estimating a 50-50 split.
And in Ball’s district office, he said, calls and letters are running about 60-40 in favor of a no vote.
In the 62-member GOP-controlled state senate, 29 Democrats and two Republicans have pledged to support the bill. It is seen as not likely that Republican leadership will allow the chamber to vote on the bill if only one more Republican votes yes, thus a scramble is on to secure at least two more GOP votes for the bill, sources told POLITICO Monday.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57366.html#ixzz1Pu5qLzNT
"Six national polls in a row have shown the majority of Americans support the freedom to marry. Even since voters approved Proposition 8, public opinion has come far quickly towards tolerance. And there is a reason for that: People are getting to know gay people and gay couples and understand why marriage is important to them."
— Marc Solomon, a national pro-gay-marriage organizer who has been involved both in New York and in California’s effort to overturn Proposition 8 (via cornonthedomcobb)
(Source: Los Angeles Times, via imafookingrocketscientist-deact)
let me start this by saying that i fully support the It Gets Better Project; the message it sends is so uplifting, and, clearly, queer youth needs as many positive images of the future as possible for comfort and inspiration.
but without giving any attention to the other side — that of the…
We totally agree! It’s not enough to just treat one side of the issue, especially since the aggressors are really the ones doing the most damage. Like you’ve said, the only way that it will really ‘get better’ for everyone is if more people are educated so that we can finally start shedding stereotypes and all sorts of misconceptions that people hold about the gay community due to lack of exposure.
The crux of the issue is ignorance, because hatred feeds off of fear, and fear stems from ignorance. We’re hoping that it really does get better. Not just for gay teens on the individual level, but for the world at large, because we all are capable of showing a better side of humanity than the one that has been on display for some time now.
Love Always, Always Love,
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One step closer…
Hello all,
Great news today! As you probably know by now, the marriage bill has been passed in the New York state assembly!! This is great news especially for us since we’re based out of New York, but on an even larger scale this means that marriage equality is finally gaining momentum! State by state, this will happen.
But first the bill has to be passed in the Senate. It’s teetering on the edge now with a tie vote at 31-31. Two Republican Senators have said that they are undecided. We’re on the edge of our seats at the moment waiting for the decision, but hoping that the Senators will heed the wishes of the millions of Americans who are being denied this most basic right, and indeed to heed the will of our forefathers who, first and foremost, wanted to establish a country that allowed freedom to all of its citizens.
Although we very much understand the religious sensitivities and concerns raised by many opposed groups and individuals, we’re a little concerned at how often that whole “separation of church and state” bit is overlooked by our Senators. The marriage bill even includes ‘protection’ for the clergy and churches who don’t wish to allow gay marriage within their establishments. So everyone should be happy, right? Of course not… Not for now, at least.
But we’re never going to lose hope that maybe one day, everyone will be. We should hope that bill will be passed sooner rather than later since there are thousands lovely gay couples who’ve been waiting their whole lives to do what so many straight couples take for granted. If not today though, we know that this inequality can only go on for so long. Love is too strong for one Senate decision to beat it down.
We’ll keep you updated and keep our fingers tightly crossed that these Senators have a change of heart SOON!
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