--- In [email protected], "Daria Akers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Hm. I think she'd better be prepared for people to assume she's a
lesbian. This gesture on the part of her church sounds similar to the
action of some non-Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe: wearing yellow
stars so nobody could be singled out as a Jew.
But the gesture doesn't mean much if the ribbon-wearer doesn't
understand the full effect that wearing the ribbon will have on other
people.
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