If that’s the case, I think similarly, a lot of these people may not have felt the strong motivation to make a strong statement before, since it didn’t affect them directly, but once the actually SAW Prop 8 and the other measures pass and so profoundly impact their gay friends and family, they also felt the urge to take it to the streets.

Just a thought.

Not the atmosphere I would think a group of Mormons would take a family-oriented party to…but since we no longer have smoking allowed in the bowling alley I guess…why not?

I just wonder what my fellow Saints in the Ward would think if I sat back, between my turns at throwing the ball down the lane and I took swigs from a long-necked Bud?

So, I go to our protest in the morning and then end the night with my Mormon friends?

Could be interesting.

(** I wouldn’t really drink the beer. And I have to find a bright-pink bowler’s shirt by Saturday.)

I think the problem is that we’ve become really complacent and comfortable in the last few years. With gay-themed TV shows and various celebrities coming out and increasing acceptance among young people, it’s kind of easy to forget that we are now forbidden to marry in 30 states, and several others don’t offer us any protection from discrimination or hate crimes, to say nothing of our lack of such protection at the federal level.

I think that if anything, the passage of Prop. 8 has imploded the safety bubble a lot of us thought we had (including even me, despite my long-running dissatisfaction with the tame state of gay rights activism). This should really wake a lot of us up to how badly we’re getting screwed around the country, no matter how well Nielsen rates Ellen’s talk show or “Will and Grace.”