The Heart From The Toes, And Flutter

[nfotxn]

This Good Friday we stopped by a friend's parents house to burn some CD copies of their demo on the way to a party. There next to his Mom was a Defend Marriage pamphlet with post-it notes stuck through the pages. I felt like speaking up to say:

"Mrs. X, I don't mean to be a bother being a guest in your house and all. But I'd just like to humanize the situation for you and remind you that as a young man I aspire to have the same rights as your son. To be able to have my love recognized both culturally and legally, if I so choose."

But the drum roll in my head sputtered, my heart fluttered and I did not lead my life as sometimes I wish I could.

Comments

[durabear]

That's a beautiful way to put it...

I'd have been more blunt.

"Mrs. X, all I want in life is the right to marry so that I too can plead my case for removing the feeding tube of my brain-dead partner in front of the state supreme court."

Sorry, these sanctity of marriage people have me rather frustrated of late. Marriage is sacred, but not if your wife is brain dead... make up your minds! :-)

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, we're largely godless heathens the other 364 days of the year.

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

It's a statutory holiday.

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

I'd just have taken the pamphlet and put it in my pocket, even if it was sitting right next to her.

She might have demanded it back, but fuck her and her hate mongering. I don't care if her world view is crushed if two fags or dykes get married... her bigotry is her personal problem, and she has no right to inflict it on others.

[emramesha.livejournal.com]

Hell, you lead it the way you should a lot more than some (like me!). The drum roll in my head sputters and my heart flutters far too often!

[anthony808.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this. I wonder what people's reaction would be when the issue is put in those simple terms.

[abearius.livejournal.com]

I assume you knew that her having the pamphlet in the first place, to appropriate the vocabulary of a bygone era, was for the purposes of keeping the faggot down. I mean, a quick look through my living room has made some people conclude that I am a church-goer and a Catholic!

You could start by asking "Mrs. Bigott, what did you find so interesting in that pamphlet?" If she says she wanted to confound the tongues of the conservateive hate-mongers, then you could laud her diligent inquiry. If she says that she wants to see all us Godless sodomites kept in chains or flayed in the town square, then you have polite reason to tell her you want your freedom and that you will not stop until you see her head marched through town on the end of a pike. Civility of that nature makse political work much more effective.

I guess what I am saying is that you should not leap to conclusions. Rather, you should diplomatically assess what a person's actual views are before deciding whether or not to spit molten lava all over their worthless, bigoted hide.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_janie_jones_/]

i've seen those pamphlets. uber-creepy. was this woman putting post-it notes in it so that she could go to their rally or something? i don't get it

[satarnion.livejournal.com]

I really want to know what she was post-it noting.

I mean, on a certain level that's more re-assuring to me than simply seeing it somewhere in a house. It at least shows signs of the fact that she's reading it carefully, thinking about it, versus just picking it up and glancing through it and nodding in agreement.

Maybe this is naively optimistic of me, but addressing it in the way you mentioned above might have produced a really interesting discussion.

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