We were taking the bus to the park on Saturday when all the traffic stopped. Apparently there was a march going on for gay marriage. We had to transfer buses anyway, so we got out and walked up to the march. We stood for a few minutes as hundreds of people walked by with signs, chanting. There were a lot of signs protesting California's Proposition 8, which overturned gay marriage there, as well as signs protesting religion and the Mormon Church, which paid millions of dollars to help pass Proposition 8. I was amazed at how many people there were and I'm sure there were hundreds more than had already passed. According to the newspaper, thousands of people participated. We recorded some video below.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Ran into a gay marriage march
Posted by Troy at 5:00 PM
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the demonstrations have been nationwide and surprisingly sustained, kind of like the anti-Iraq-invasion demonstrations in 2002/2003 before the invasion took place. sadly I think they'll be just as ineffective.
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