One of my students, who rarely does any work, or moves any brain cells or grows any dendrites, has been totally engrossed in a project as of late. She is organizing her classmates in support of the Day of Silence to protest Proposition 8. When I asked her what exactly she was making a poster for and collecting signatures about, she clammed up and said "Ooooh 8 is nothing, its in support of November 8th in California." Ummm that doesn't make sense. So she finally said, It's in support of gay marriage. I said oh okay, carry on.
She has 40 signatures now, and in the midst of all of my frustration about Prop 8 in Cali and the homophobic idiots I encounter every single day down here in the Bible Belt, maybe a Bible verse is speaking the truth: And a little child shall lead them. Isaiah 11:6
So that was a little silver lining, and it definitely makes me hopeful.
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