Gay Marriage Rally in SF for Prop 8 Decision Day

Reveived from One Struggle One Fight in San Francisco Just a couple months ago, I marched for six days with 30 of my friends from the Bay Area to Sacramento for LGBT civil rights. When we arrived in the state capital, we joined with folks we met during our journey and comedienne Kathy Griffin for a rally and press conference at the Capitol Building. We called on the CA Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8. And we announced our plans to participate in civil disobedience if they don't. This morning, the CA Supreme Court announced that next Tuesday, May 26, we will have a decision about Prop 8. A dangerous precedent has been set that any minority's rights can be stripped away at the ballot, but the Supreme Court has the opportunity to restore justice and sanity. Our rights hang in the balance. Now is the time to act. Next Tuesday, join us for an interfaith prayer service at 8:30 a.m. at St. Francis Lutheran Church in San Francisco (at the corner of Church & Market). Following the service, we will march down Market St. to the Civic Center, where we'll gather with our community to hear the Court's decision. If the Court overturns Prop 8, we'll have a party for our civil rights then and there. But if they uphold Prop 8, we'll take to the streets in civil disobedience with the message SEPARATE IS NOT EQUAL. An interfaith group of clergy will join us in the streets with singing and chanting to celebrate our struggle for justice, and many of us will be arrested for our act of nonviolent resistance. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=85148318799#/event.php?eid=179024565550 Please join us for the action. Even if you choose not to be arrested, there are many ways for you to participate. We need as many folks as we can get to be peacekeepers and legal observers. Join us tonight for a meeting at my office from 7-9 p.m. It'll be a great way to meet the community, learn about the action, and find out where you fit in best. The address is 1370 Mission St. at the corner of 10th St. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=85148318799#/event.php?eid=85148318799 And no matter which way the Court rules, join us next Saturday, May 30, in Fresno for Meet in the Middle, a fantastic community gathering in the Central Valley to talk about our next steps in the struggle for equality and civil rights all across this country. http://www.meetinthemiddle4equality.com/ In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: "Let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." I'll see you in the streets, Kip and the One Struggle, One Fight community