As hundreds of gay couples anxiously waited in line to get married at
the Salt Lake City county clerk's office over the weekend, some local
boy scouts showed why there really should be a merit badge for promoting
equality.
In pictures posted on Twitter, boy scouts were shown spreading the love and delivering
pizza to county workers who skipped their lunches to process the flood
of marriage licenses. The boy scouts also began handing out pizza to
couples waiting in the long lines in the hallways as well.
Now if only the BSA leadership could be as open and welcoming to gay adults.
Wow! We are living in a different world! Everyone thought we were up against a thick firewall, that just about every state that could relatively easily legalize gay marriage already had, and we were in for a long, slow slog going forward, whittling away at the remaining more implacable states. But then a pawn headed straight for the Queen on the Equality Chessboard, and took her out. Utah, whose Mormon millions made life very difficult for equality in California for several years, has now not only lost in California, but has now lost in their own 45th State, as well. Utah has marriage equality, and there will be no stay. This is the canary in the coal mine for inequality. It seems likely now that more state gay-marriage bans will fall, one by one, and we seem much faster to the Supreme Court making this all the law of the land. Meanwhile, the formerly very homophobic Boy Scouts serve pizza as dessert, following a main course of equal rights. We have not turned a page. We have finished an entire book, and have moved on to the next!
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