Richard Warnick‘Salt Lake City has learned how to protest’
Check out Andrew Sullivan’s blog for a rundown of today’s nationwide rallies in support of same-sex marriage and civil rights for all– including Salt Lake City. Sullivan writes:
When every gay person and every friend or family member of a gay person really, truly believes that the status quo is unacceptable, we will win. Today, I think we reached a tipping point. Now our task is to find a way to channel that conviction more aggressively, with more focus and professionalism. We will. And the next generation will lead the way.
Missoula, Montana
And one of Sullivan’s readers replies: “I’m not gay. I don’t have gay friends or family. This isn’t about homosexuality. This is about civil rights.”
“People around the country were watching this very closely,” said Kellan Baker, a Washington, D.C., resident who is organizing today’s protest there. “For Californians to go to the ballot box to strip people of civil rights they had been enjoying is, I guess, the last straw.”
In Salt Lake City, where demonstrators gathered just blocks from the headquarters of the Mormon church, one sign pictured the city’s temple with a line adapted from former Republican vice president candidate Sarah Palin: “I can see discrimination from my house.”
Today, a police officer told KSL-TV’s Alex Cabrero to expect more rallies in the future: “Salt Lake City has learned how to protest.”
More links on Think Progress: Thousands rally nationwide for marriage equality.
UPDATE: Deanna Taylor has pictures of the Salt Lake gathering on her blog.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Remarkable post on Sullivan’s blog. Impressive crowds of people everywhere. Moving comments sent in from the protestors.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Andrew Sullivan was very late to the game, but the Mormons fucked up.