Posted on 02/02/2010 11:06:01 AM PST by Maelstorm
UPPER WEST SIDE — Hundreds of New Yorkers struck a pose in silent protest of a gay marriage ban on Monday afternoon at the Empire Hotel.
The gay rights group NOH8 Campaign organized the photo shoot, which was the first in New York. At the shoot members and supporters of the LGBT community posed with "NOH8" tattooed on their cheeks and duct tape over their mouths to symbolize their voices not being heard.
"We wanted to come out and take part in the photo shoot and show our support," said Battery Park City resident Jeff Adams, who has been with his partner for 15 years.
"We want to get married someday, so it was a worthwhile cause to come down and support it."
Proposition 8 passed in California in November 2008 reinstating a prior ban on same-sex marriage in that state. As part of a widespread grassroots response to the bill's passage, celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and his partner, Jeff Parshley, formed NOH8 in Los Angeles as a form of photographic silent protest.
"We're all people," said Gabrielle Stubbert. "We have to stick up for each other and we should all have the same rights as everybody else. It's so simple and so basic."
The NOH8 campaign started with Parshley's Facebook photo and spread virally through social networks. Many participants at Monday's photo shoot heard about it through Facebook, Twitter, or by word-of-mouth.
There was a lone protestor outside of the hotel citing Bible passages in support of his view that same-sex marriage is wrong.
Pall Gale of Chelsea had his own opinion about the Bible-quoting protestor.
"I think if Jesus was here he'd have [a NOH8 tattoo] on his face as well," Gale said.
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The duct tape should be permanently pasted on their body orifices a bit lower down south for maximum effect.
Given that free speech is not the issue here, I don’t see the purpose of this stunt.
Sorry Gale, He wouldn't. He would say "Go and sin no more," but he wouldn't say "Go and mock the institution of marriage that God created and ordained".
And, let us remember, Jesus is The Word, the Word made flesh.
The Word says in Leviticus 20:13 - If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.
Seems fairly clear to me.
If they want to protest, shouldn’t they be putting duct tape over the other end?
It's not a tattoo if it comes right off with soap and water.
I guess they aren't THAT down with the struggle.
Must be a huge
mental challenge
to decide
. . .
WHICH END
to duct tape!
“I think if Jesus was here he’d have [a NOH8 tattoo] on his face as well,” Gale said.
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Are these permanent tattoos?
“Their voices not being heard” !? Gawd you can’t shut ‘em up here in California.
We could send instructions and little
duct tape kits
to . . . Puhlousey, boxerface, UNFeinstein, Murtha, Barny 2Frank, et al.
I wonder if it would qualify as a science fair project to figure out a way to substitute at the last minute . . . super glue for the duct tape glue.
This is **NOT** about getting married. How do we know that? We can see what happened in Massachusetts. The very instant that gay marriage was approved gay studies were introduced in the government schools. Parents were **not** permitted to remove their children because gay marriage was now the law of the land and part of the general culture.
It also has to do with beating down Christians. The Catholic Church in Massachusetts no longer does adoptions because gays now have the legal status of being “married”.
Legalizing gay marriage will have profound effects on business, landlords, hospitals, Christian charities, adoption, and even churches who have employees.
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