1) I had a delightfully long phone date with my friend Emma last week and one of the many topics we covered was the Facebook activity around the gay marriage debate.
2) In case you missed it, there was a ton of support online with the red and pink equal signs. There were even articles written about this facebook support, as seen here.
3) I thought my friend brought up a pretty good point that it would be awesome if our generation would get just as public about other issues and move to action beyond simply changing their profile picture on facebook.
4) I told her she should write a blog and she sent me her thoughts in an email below; I have highlighted points in bold that I really liked. I hope y'all enjoy the change of pace with a different writer :)
ok so i thought id go ahead and send you this while it is still brewing and stewing in my brain! i can tell you that an introvert's brain, well at least this one's, never really shuts off. so here we go:
forgive my lack of eloquence...i am sick and tired of hearing all this marriage equality crap every single time i open my computer or look on facebook or turn on the tv. every single status that i see updated on facebook is about marriage equality and everyone's new profile picture is the equality symbol they have used. i am just sick and tired of it, pass it, don't pass it, i could care less. really as a secular government under the constitution they should pass it, so go ahead! just don't force churches to be perform the ceremonies if they find it against their beliefs. if you want an honest separation of church and state then truly separate the church and the state and stop forcing churches to do things.
more importantly, why aren't people standing outside the supreme court or the white house or where this "sit in" is being performed to demand harsher convictions for child molesters and sex offenders? or how about the millions of girls and children being kidnapped and forced into sex slavery, or not even that, those girls that are expecting to be a sex slave because their mothers and sisters and neighbors had to follow that path if they didn't get married first. and even in those marriages, can they expect peace and protection or the same fear of rape and abuse but by the same man instead of many men in one night? how about we worry about those millions of child soldiers that are drugged and brainwashed to do all of the horrible things to other people that their kidnappers are doing to them, watching their parents die and then killing other children? how about those children that are afraid to be home, afraid of their own parents, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, neighbors, teachers, babysitters because of the things they do to them behind closed doors and through the guise of "trust" and "friendship." how about the children in north korea who are so starved that they will pick the rice out of the mud that the soldiers drop, piece by piece, just to get a bite to eat? how about the millions of people in our own backyard that can't get a freaking job so they can no longer support their families? how about those people also in our own backyard that are being trafficked right in front of our noses as slaves?
how about those people that see all of these things happen but they are so self consumed that they don't do anything to stop it or help in any small way they can? I could go on and forgive this rant, but seriously, marriage equality is a first world problem and quite frankly we have bigger fish to fry. like i said: pass it, don't pass it, i could care less at this point. but if you're gonna make a big stink about something like that, what about these other issues where people really need the law to support them instead of failing them over and over again? i think we all need to rethink some priorities here.
[NOTE FROM SARAH: I don't want to offend my gay friends or take any huge stance for or against gay marriage BUT I do wish people would get as vocal or more vocal about issues where people's lives are at stake or babies or starving or women are being raped. These issues are urgent and largely ignored by the general public. Show some public support for those things. So ride this wave of activism... keep it up!!!]
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