Anti-gay ballots in 11 states

Sorry to bother, but considering the interests of alot of my friends on lj - I thought there would be more than a few interested in this information.

Btw - I've seen my mom's absentee ballot - and YES, in GA at least - there is a question directly related to this... Asking if she considered marriage strickly a union between a man and a woman, to which she marked "NO" with a biggggggggggg old "x"....lol. Gotta luv mom.

Hugs

xof


I presume this would be of interest to fellow U.S. slash fans . . .

From the ACLU

On Election Day, eleven states have proposals on the ballot to amend their state constitutions to forever bar same-sex couples from being recognized as partners. The ACLU is calling on you to help fight these anti-gay ballot initiatives by calling your friends and family who live in one of these eleven states and asking them to help defeat these discriminatory measures.

http://www.aclu.org/getequal/ffm/statecampaign.htm?orgid=n&MX=1645&H=1

Arkansas, Kentucky, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, Utah

Anti-gay ballots in 11 states

Sorry to bother, but considering the interests of alot of my friends on lj - I thought there would be more than a few interested in this information.

Btw - I've seen my mom's absentee ballot - and YES, in GA at least - there is a question directly related to this... Asking if she considered marriage strickly a union between a man and a woman, to which she marked "NO" with a biggggggggggg old "x"....lol. Gotta luv mom.

Hugs

xof


I presume this would be of interest to fellow U.S. slash fans . . .

From the ACLU

On Election Day, eleven states have proposals on the ballot to amend their state constitutions to forever bar same-sex couples from being recognized as partners. The ACLU is calling on you to help fight these anti-gay ballot initiatives by calling your friends and family who live in one of these eleven states and asking them to help defeat these discriminatory measures.

http://www.aclu.org/getequal/ffm/statecampaign.htm?orgid=n&MX=1645&H=1

Arkansas, Kentucky, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, Utah

Poetry - Share the first that comes to your mind?

Gakked from pluvial_poetry

When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your own LJ.

(I chose this because - well, embarrassingly enough...lol. It's one of the MANY beautiful narrated poems on the "Beauty and the Beast: The Series" soundtrack. Believe me, if you think you've heard this poem - you've NEVER heard it until you hear Ron Perlman reciting it in his "Vincent" voice....THUD!!!)


somewhere i have never travelled

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands


e. e. cummings

Poetry - Share the first that comes to your mind?

Gakked from pluvial_poetry

When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your own LJ.

(I chose this because - well, embarrassingly enough...lol. It's one of the MANY beautiful narrated poems on the "Beauty and the Beast: The Series" soundtrack. Believe me, if you think you've heard this poem - you've NEVER heard it until you hear Ron Perlman reciting it in his "Vincent" voice....THUD!!!)


somewhere i have never travelled

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands


e. e. cummings