Proposition 8 Protest Brings a Passionate Crowd to the UWS
Hundreds of New Yorkers came to the Empire Hotel (63rd between Broadway and Columbus) on Monday afternoon to participate in a silent protest of the California gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. DNAinfo.com reports that the gay rights group NOH8 Campaign organized the first New York silent protest photo shoot. The shoot was set up so that members and supporters of the LGBT community could pose with “NOH8″ tattooed on their cheeks and duct tape over their mouths as a symbol of their voices not being heard. Proposition 8 passed in California in November 2008, which reinstated a prior ban on same-sex marriage in that state. NOH8 was started by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and his partner, Jeff Parshley, who joined a widespread grassroots response to the bill’s passage by creating the silent photographic protest. NOH8 has since spread to thousands, mainly through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. As for the pro-Proposition 8 side, there was a lone protestor outside of the hotel citing Bible passages in support of his view that same-sex marriage is wrong. See the video of the Empire Hotel event at DNAinfo.com.
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It should go without saying that a person should be allowed to marry whomever they choose. Until the right-wing, religious fanatics in this country stop trying to control everybody else and force their “morals” down the throat of the country, there can be no real freedom in the United States. Civil rights cannot simply be “voted away,” that is the purpose of the Bill of Rights. Religious activists should be left out of these decisions completely. I invite you to my web pages devoted to raising awareness on this puritan attack on our freedom: http://freethegods.blogspot.com/2009/06/san-franciscos-gay-pride-parade.html