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15 Nov 2008 05:38 pm
The View From Your Protest: DC
A reader writes:
As a straight man, and a lifelong Republican (until the Palin pick), I
was rare company at the DC Prop. 8 protest. I went because
discriminating against homosexual marriages isn't just wrong, it's
ridiculous.
Walking through the crowd in front of the US Capitol, I was nearly
moved to tears. To look into the faces of so many people and realizing
that their lives felt incomplete, that they were told by our government
and by many in our society that they are somehow less than human, that
they do not deserve the same rights as everyone else, was nothing short
of depressing.
This was my first protest march ever; yet, through the cold rain of
a November Saturday, for far longer than I'd walk on any other day, in
the company of people with little in common with me, I felt completely
fulfilled. The protesters felt like family.
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