People are up in arms over the big DOMA flap, and rightly so. Yes, there are the apologists, but it really appears that we have numbers on our side; the side that says the President and his DOJ is wrong for citing incest and child marriage in trying to fight against gay marriage.
Many people are trying to figure out what to do. Yes, we have to vote with our pocketbooks; no more money for the DNC until a true apology comes. Yes, the President made many of us feel somewhat better when he granted some limited rights to some LGBT government employees. Even I was willing to give him a little bit of a break – until I re-read the brief and get angry again. Still – what to do?
Dan Savage has come up with the BEST plan ever, and it won’t involve a million people on the Washington Mall this coming October. No, actually it involves just 730 people per year. You see, Savage’s idea is that every day, a GLBT couple goes to the White House and asks to talk to the President about DOMA. Every day they are told they cannot meet with the President. And every day they refuse to leave and are arrested and forcibly removed from the premises. It would not take all that long to get someone’s attention with that kind of tactic! The White House Press Corps would see couples arrested day in and day out – different couples every day, some everyday folks, some celebrities – and start hounding Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on DOMA. And start hounding the President on DOMA.
That’s how you get things done.
That is a great suggestion for real action. I notice that it, unlike AMERICAblog, doesn’t involve saying that someone who marries a 16-year-old must be a pedophile, or that there should be a religious test for who can work on what at the Department of Justice. I hope to see more people putting forward positive ideas for action instead of wreaking their justifiable sense of injustice done to them on every Mormon they encounter.