We have affirmed the nominations for our Spring 2009 cabinet!
[for president and vp, you must have previously serve in the cabinet to be eligible for nomination].
Harry Potter made a special appearance.
Kadaj from Final Fantasy: Advent Children had to drop by.
Professor Scott wanted to check on his performance in the film.
Some more people in awesome costumes.
A beautiful vixen dropped in.
A vixen with a scythe . . . what can be better?
The cave man had been thawed.
Dr. Lotta Vag was ready for the exam.
Preparing during the week by selling shirts and telling people about the rally.
Selling shirts and setting the area up for the rally.
Listening and sharing coming out stories at the rally.
The crowds gathering for those sweet, cold confections!
A groups of students socializing with their treats of choice.
Callen encouraging students to sign up for the mailing list, pick up brochures and grab a name tag.
Terri trying to sell the previous years shirts to new students.
A group socializing.
Greeting the mascot of the event.
Students socializing.
The campus ministry associate at the Wesley Foundation will be putting together a Silent Vigil For LGBT rights on Wednesday November 12th @5:30pm by Lake LaVerne.
I've finally fallen onto this bandwagon. I'll be blogging randomly for the rest of the semester, which sadly isn't too long now.
I just wanted to let everyone know about the conferences coming up. I already have a list of individuals that are more than willing to hear more. If you want to know more, you have to let me know! You can tell anyone on cabinet and we'll be sure to get the information to you. What are these conferences you may be asking. Well, they're a place to gather new ideas for ice breakers and other activities that you can perform to create a variety of outcomes. MBLGTACC is the main conference we attend. It will be held in Bloomington, Indiana this year, which is a bit of a drive but it is well worth it. This conference will run from February 13 to February 15. You will never believe the amount of amazing people you can connect with and the sheer amount of new ideas you will come back with unless you attend.
The other conference is the NGLTF Creating Change conference is a more professional conference. This conference is geared more towards students closer to graduation that are looking to network with potential employees and gain that little advantage in the working world. This conference is going to be held in Denver this year from January 28 to February 1.
Registration is open for both conferences now, so if you'd like to attend one without our group, you are more than welcome to sign up for yourself. MBLGTACC can be found at this site and the Creating Change conference can be found at this site. Feel free to look around the sites for more information about each conference and come to us with questions you may have. We are always here to chat whenever you need it!
So, the state of California voted for a state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage. The 52% support for it was surprising for me, specially since California is known for being a liberal state. It is indeed heart breaking. I know a lot of people were angered by the results. It seemed so unfair.
As Political Science major, I can see both sides of the argument. Proponents of Prop 8 claims that it is not about denying rights to same-sex couples, but rather, protecting the will of the people, as Newt Gingrinch described in this advert:
Even though I can see where he was coming from, I also know that in recent history, we have made laws that protects the minority from the tyrannical majority. Even though the result in California showed the will of the people, I don't see how denying someone their rights could be constitutional. And this amendment, is so obviously discriminatory on its face that it doesn't even require a strict scrutiny. Regardless of how they tried to mask this, discrimination is discrimination.
I know some people would say, "why don't the gays just call marriage something else, then there wouldn't be any issues."
Well, the way I understand it, because the states use the word marriage in their statute, and certain rights and privileges are attached to word marriage, if the gays use a different word to describe their union, then they don't get the rights that people who are allowed to use the word marriage would normally have.
And because the proponents of Prop 8 want the word marriage to only be defined as union between a man and woman, same-sex couples are not allowed to use that word. Hence, they don't get the benefits.
Sucks, doesn't it?
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