Yes, the hate group Stand for Marriage D.C. has bought ads on the sides of buses in the nation’s capital. The marketing message: Don’t let lawmakers decide whether discrimination is tolerable; let voters! But rather than get all upset that a bunch of bigots are taking over taxpayer-funded vehicles, we should be realizing there’s a great artistic opportunity at hand:
Not that we encourage knitting graffiti.
(Photo: David Uy / MetroWeekly.com; POTP)
Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
Well I certainly don’t get your point Queerty.
But, I think that the bus billboards or other billboards are okay with me. Based on prior news stories and a little research via Google, DC courts have twice sustained the DC election boards decisions that matters regarding civil rights are allowed to be voted on. So, the anti-gay DC groups and NOM can waste all the money they want with their messages; less money to spend elsewhere where their intrusion can move along their bigotry.
In DC though, let them fight and let them lose. What a good outcome for marriage equality that legislators (the DC board) approved marriage equality 11-2, that the administration embraced the legislation and signed the legislation into law (the mayor), and the courts have ruled such matters are the domain of the legislature and administration; not the voters (similar to the ending of slavery).
When the first groom/groom and bride/bride wedding get media attention in DC, and the victory comes over the attempt by Maggot Gallagher and Bishop Harry Jackass to impose bigotry and homophobia against us, well, that is a good victory. And those bus-side posters will ingrain their loss to all those national legislators.
Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
OOPS OOPS OOPS OOPS
Forgot the “NOT” in the sentence:
DC courts have twice sustained the DC election boards decisions that matters regarding civil rights are NOT allowed to be voted on…
terrwill
One could all their efffort BUSted!