Okay, get this....my friend is out with her baby, doing a little grocery shopping. There is a woman collecting signatures for a petition at the entrance. It happens more often than not here in So Cal. Anyway, as she approaches, the woman says to her, "would you be interested in signing a petition to keep marriage between a man and a woman?"
my friend is a lawyer and therefore not of few words, although i think her girlfriend is by far the vocal one of the set. she tells her, in short, that she and her female partner that are raising
the little girl would have nothing to do with it. her assumption she was straight was misguided. the woman then tells her that her's is "not a family in the eyes of God".
i would imagine at that point, my dear friend turned deep red, smoke started to come out of her ears and she had to walk away out of sheer survival (the womans, not hers). afterall, she did have her infant daughter with her. she's standing in the middle of the supermarket when i get the call. she's shaken...she's furious...she's at a loss for words and i'm doing my best to calm her.
what came to mind next was nothing short of divine intervention. this is what i suggested....
go to the greeting card section. find a sympathy card...the cheesiest, sappiest, a religious one perhaps. and sign it "Jesus weeps for you"
she laughed...the mood lightened....but ya know what? damn if she didn't do exactly that. although she did say she was only willing to pay 99 cents for the card. when she handed it to the woman, she told her she hopes that someday she finds it in her heart to know everyone is worthy of love and respect.
later that night she and her girlfriend were going to a black tie HRC event. i'm sure it made for good story telling....
my friend....she made me proud!
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