Barrel Rolls and Latex Gloves
I forgot to mention something about our stop at CCU. Real, though slightly paraphrased quote, from the president of the school:
"Our policy is a lifestyle issue. Just as we don't allow parrots in the dorms, we don't allow open homosexuals."
???!!!
So today we were at the Air Force Academy. That is an ugly school, let me tell you. It looks like a giant airport. It was a good day. About 10 people got arrested early on for asking someone to sign a giant check for $364 million on behalf of the American tax payer (that's how much has been spent on kicking people out since 'don't ask, don't tell' was made law) and making speeches and things. I stood with tape on my mouth as I said, until there were so many cadets who wanted to speak to us that it just didn't make sense any more. I met a lot of really cool people today, almost all of whom I would describe as allies. Many of them specifically asked "what can I do?", which was awesome. I've gotta say a lot of the boys in the service seem very hung up about the shower and rooming situation. They just assume that gay men would have to have seperate showers. I pointed out that they no doubt currently shower with gay men, they just don't know it. They responded that it would be different if they did know, because they'd have to think about it. This was seriously their biggest objection. Strange.
Actually one of the coolest parts of today was that we cleaned the bus. When we got back from our community dinner about 6 of us decided the time had come to make a stand and attacked the BGB from front to back. We must have pulled 8 full bags of trash off it, and we swept and swiffered and cleaned the windows and everything. I felt called to clean the bathroom, which was possibly the ickiest thing I've ever done. We turned up the music and actually had a really good time, I think in part because the task required an entirely different set of skills than the ones we've been using for the past 5 weeks. Also, we danced, and you know dancing makes everything better.
Tonight the big drama is how and when to stop off for Easter church on Sunday morning. Sheesh. My hope is to get to Omaha (our stop for tomorrow night) early enough to get to the cathedral for the Great Vigil complete with baptism and confirmation, and get some people to come with me so they can get a look at what sort of liturgy I've grown up with, and maybe why I think guitars and projection screens in a gymnasium are a weird way to worship. We'll see how that goes.
A note for those of you who have connections in the NYC area: if you know of anyone who might want to join us at our final action at West Point, have them contact me or Monica (through the website). It's going to be a big deal and we're busing people out from the City and having a fundraiser the night before and stuff. Gonna be bangin'.
Beeteedubs, congratulations on the new job Quinnbee! I'm so proud of you!!!
"Our policy is a lifestyle issue. Just as we don't allow parrots in the dorms, we don't allow open homosexuals."
???!!!
So today we were at the Air Force Academy. That is an ugly school, let me tell you. It looks like a giant airport. It was a good day. About 10 people got arrested early on for asking someone to sign a giant check for $364 million on behalf of the American tax payer (that's how much has been spent on kicking people out since 'don't ask, don't tell' was made law) and making speeches and things. I stood with tape on my mouth as I said, until there were so many cadets who wanted to speak to us that it just didn't make sense any more. I met a lot of really cool people today, almost all of whom I would describe as allies. Many of them specifically asked "what can I do?", which was awesome. I've gotta say a lot of the boys in the service seem very hung up about the shower and rooming situation. They just assume that gay men would have to have seperate showers. I pointed out that they no doubt currently shower with gay men, they just don't know it. They responded that it would be different if they did know, because they'd have to think about it. This was seriously their biggest objection. Strange.
Actually one of the coolest parts of today was that we cleaned the bus. When we got back from our community dinner about 6 of us decided the time had come to make a stand and attacked the BGB from front to back. We must have pulled 8 full bags of trash off it, and we swept and swiffered and cleaned the windows and everything. I felt called to clean the bathroom, which was possibly the ickiest thing I've ever done. We turned up the music and actually had a really good time, I think in part because the task required an entirely different set of skills than the ones we've been using for the past 5 weeks. Also, we danced, and you know dancing makes everything better.
Tonight the big drama is how and when to stop off for Easter church on Sunday morning. Sheesh. My hope is to get to Omaha (our stop for tomorrow night) early enough to get to the cathedral for the Great Vigil complete with baptism and confirmation, and get some people to come with me so they can get a look at what sort of liturgy I've grown up with, and maybe why I think guitars and projection screens in a gymnasium are a weird way to worship. We'll see how that goes.
A note for those of you who have connections in the NYC area: if you know of anyone who might want to join us at our final action at West Point, have them contact me or Monica (through the website). It's going to be a big deal and we're busing people out from the City and having a fundraiser the night before and stuff. Gonna be bangin'.
Beeteedubs, congratulations on the new job Quinnbee! I'm so proud of you!!!
posted by Di at 9:08 PM
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Keep up the good work! Greetings from Udaipur!
-Andrew
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