VA is in a tri-state area (MD/DC/VA) and some of your coworkers may 
not be VA residents, so aren't thinking about it too much.  But I 
would say you were right on target.

--- In [email protected], "Daria Akers" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I love Ray... cute and funny as hell.
> 
> Anyway.... the ribbon is like the rainbow flag. The coworker is 
straight and
> as far as I know doesn't have any gay relatives but she might. She 
is a
> fellow Unitarian Universalist and some of our congregations are 
called
> Welcoming Congregations. Her church (not the same as mine) passed 
out
> rainbow ribbons to support gay rights and she wears it at work to 
support
> gay rights.
> 
> I simply asked her why she was wearing it and she said you know no 
one even
> mentions it. I asked her what did she want them to say and she said 
she
> wanted to use it to open the conversation to the Vote No (vote no 
on the
> Marriage ammendement) campaign. I said that people who know what 
the flag is
> either assume she is gay or support someone who is and there wasn't 
much to
> say in that case. I told her people who didn't know her and know 
what it is
> for might assume she is a lesbian. This sort of shocked her because 
it
> hadn't crossed her mind. Not that anything is wrong with it.
> 
> I told her I would ask you all what you thought....
> Daria
>





 
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