20th
If I am to be honest, I will begin by saying that I am conflicted over this wear purple today effort. My conflict has nothing whatsoever to do with whether I feel this is an important issue that we should be addressing, instead it is around whether this is a meaningful way to effect change?…
This is a great post. I particularly like the emphasis on setting out “to change the minds and hearts among the bigots in your life”. I worry sometimes that I’m unprepared to change hearts and minds because I live in a bigot-free bubble. When I do inevitably meet and interact with bigots I feel unprepared for their hate and it takes me a moment to work out where they’re coming from and how to breakdown their arguments effectively…
Do you remember that idiot comment from Senator Rick Santorum (“Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife”). Well, something good came of it, the website the “Box Turtle Bulletin”:
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/
It monitors anti-gay rhetoric from Uganda to Canada to bogus research. I like its mission and stalwart attitude in the face of so much…
