DOMA / Civil Rights
As you all may or may not have heard, Bush recently joined with ultra-right wingers and declared Oct.12-18 (this week) "Marriage Protection Week" - so what does this mean? It's basically Bush's show of support for the Federal Marriage Amendment, "a divisive measure that seeks to permanently deny civil marriage to same-sex couples."

To those of you who don't understand why this is a crappy thing for queers, the HRC puts it very nicely:

"These special interest, so-called 'family' groups — and now the president — are misleading the American people when they insinuate that civil marriage for gays and lesbians would weaken other marriages," said Birch. "We're seeking things like Social Security survivor benefits, hospital visitation rights and equal tax treatment when inheriting our partner's estate, none of which threaten other families. Let's be clear about what we're seeking: fairness under the law — a basic principle the American people overwhelmingly support."

Due to my recent inspiration to become super-activist, I (along w/our Gay-Straight Alliance) decided that was pretty uncool of Bush and that something needed to be done, some sort of protest to let everyone know that we're not going to let him piss all over us :) So Chris decided we should have a mock wedding...

The plan: to host a mock wedding with a bunch of fabulously queer couples getting "hitched" - our Multicult director is working on press coverage (the point of this is awareness so we want it to be very public), so if we get our shit together and pull this off, you'll be able to see it on the news (channel 7 & 9) and perhaps read about it in the paper. However, we're trying to pull it all off on such short notice (a week isn't very long to pull resources together and set up a mock wedding) that I'm not 100% sure it's going to happen, but I will be working my ass off to do my part.

But if it does come together, it will coincide nicely with our anti-DOMA (defense of marriage act) petition. Oh, while I'm on the subject - please SIGN THIS ONLINE PETITION