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marriage is a civil right

NO H8 - The Church Channel

While working for my friend Ky on her film Fish Out of Water earlier this year, I read through a lot of bible verses and ended up at a lot of protests. I drove to the capitol building in Madison Wisconsin to have my boyfriend wave a giant rainbow pride flag in front of its shimmering white rotunda. I've talked to theologians and furious people in front of the Renaissance hotel in Chicago. I've seen people's hopes uplifted with the onset of a new administration only to have them dashed by a multi-million dollar propaganda fueled 'popular' vote in California.

I've run through protests in a foot of snow to get footage of thousands of people marching through the streets of Chicago. I've been soaked to the skin and certainly questioned my poor choice of footwear, but I've never seen these crowds diminished as a result of terrible weather. You can't win a war if you don't come out to fight. People keep coming out to fight, but I have no idea why they HAVE to keep fighting.

The opposition's argument simultaneously makes me laugh and desperately want to choke someone. This 'storm' that's coming our way, this scare tactic that you're good conservative family values are going to be destroyed is laughable and infuriating. I can't wrap my brain around how two adults wanting to commit to a long term and responsible relationship is a bad thing. When you get down to it, that's all it is. Two people, in love, committing to each other for a lifetime. Settling down. Being responsible. Building a life together. How is that against conservative values? Also, a homosexual couple is able to adopt a child, but they can't get married? Doesn't that go against conservative values? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Please, someone explain this to me, their argument fails to make any sense.

No minority should be forced to defend its equal rights at the ballot box.

Wouldn't you be upset if, by popular vote, your right to riding on a bus was taken away and you had to take a different bus for people like yourself - say Irish American, or Left Handed. What if you couldn't have the same job as other people? What if your happy, stable marriage was now null and void? Wouldn't you be angry?

I may not be a gay American, but I'm an American and I'm fucking angry.

While I have so many things to be angry about these days - climate crisis, world wide lack of education(Africa/India), and huge corporations knowingly poisoning a region of people (Nicaragua)- this topic hits really close to home. This revocation of equal rights is affecting my close friends, the people I work with, and whole communities. I submit that it is an obscene failure of justice.

I don't understand how a nation that rose from the ashes of a bloody rebellion and came together to create a country based on the separation of church and state can tolerate such a clear intrusion of the former to the latter. If anyone bothered to read a true translation of the bible instead of misquoting a biased rewritten version - like quoting lines from a movie that were never said in the actual film i.e. 'Play it again Sam.'- they'd know that the bible doesn't say anything negative about homosexuals.

I'm a strong believer in people being able to think what they choose. If someone want to think that I dress like a jerk and will get no where in my life, that's just fine. But it's not ok for that person to act on those emotions in a way that can hurt me - ie punch me in the face and break my glasses. I'm hoping at this point that anyone reading this would think that the above mentioned action would 'not be cool.' The same can be true of a majority's thoughts on a minority. You may not agree with a homosexual's choice of partner in life, but it's certainly not cool to stand in the way of their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Taking away this simple right is doing just that. It is not the place for the many to take away the rights of the few.

Here's your take away for today: Turn off the church channel and start talking to your neighbor. If you're old enough, think about what happened during the civil rights movement. And when you see that dude that's walking like a lady, or that chick that wears a plain white tee and a faux-hawk better than the man of your dreams, think twice before you judge. Odds are they're just trying to make it through life just like you - as happy as they can possibly be.

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I'll be working on a documentary in Southern Sudan late this year or early next, but it depends on getting the funds together for the project to take flight. I NEED YOUR HELP!

Panyijiar Community Development Services s a 501 (c) 3 exempt organization in North Dakota that is meant to support and stimulate the dreams of Lost Boys of Sudan from Panyijiar. In this regard PACODES strives to improve facilities of education, community healthcare, parenting, clean water, agriculture, humanitarian, in addition to peace and conflict resolutions for the Panyijiarians in Southern Sudan. Our first goal is to construct a library for the community in Panyijar.

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Sing me a rainbow, steal me a dream

I don't know how many people I've talked to about the need for education in Africa. The general response I've gotten is one of genuine empathy. Every time I tell someone about the thousands of children walked for thousands of miles to escape their government's genocide, I get a good response. "That's terrible," they say. Usually followed by a sympathetic face.

I tell them about the resettlement of those children in the United States. I tell them about those same children that have grown up and want to go back to their country. I tell them that they have not seen their home in ten or more years. I tell them their drive, that they work full time jobs, attend school, earn their BA, want to get their Masters degree. I tell them that they want to go home to help their communities rebuild. I tell them that their hometown has never had a library, that their children cannot read. I tell them about these Lost Boys with hope to inspire people to think about how they can change the world.

I am met by the wet blanket of apathy that has covered this country for the last twenty years. I have had the channel changed on me. People will listen only for a short period of time. I am frustrated and I am exhausted.

I don't feel that I am asking for very much. I don't feel that I'm draining the people that I talk to when I ask. I am asking for so very little. Your time, your ears, your feet. I am asking you to watch this video. I am asking you to pledge your feet. I am asking you to help me. So take a gander at this and think about it:

Here's some info from our facebook site for the event:

walkSUDAN is a community-driven, volunteer-owned movement dedicated to promoting community development in Southern Sudan and helping the Lost Boys return home. We're organizing walks in Peoria, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Fargo. Pledge Your Feet and help us build a library in Panyijiar County, Southern Sudan. This war-torn region needs our help and, through our grass-roots campaign, we can make this region a better place to live!

All proceeds will go directly to Endless Eye and PACODES, two non-profits committed to community development in Panyijiar County. The funds will be used to build a library this fall and to finance a documentary film intended to raise awareness to the lacking infrastructure in Southern Sudan (and, in turn, help us raise funds to fix the problem).

It's easy to get involved...we're only asking that you raise $40 and pledge your feet on May 24th...come walk with us from Bradley University's quad to Liberty Park on the Peoria Riverfront. This symbolic walk will represent the tragic trek the Lost Boys made, as children, to escape the violence in Southern Sudan during the Civil War. 27,000 children left their homes and families to survive...after a thousand mile journey, only 13,000 children made it to refugee camps in Kenya. We're working to help create a community and help the Lost Boys go home!

They Walked to Survive...We Walk for Them!

We are hosting walkSUDAN events in PEORIA CHICAGO MINNEAPOLIS and FARGO. If you live in the Midwest, you can make it to one of them. If you don't live in the Midwest and want to help, think about setting up a walk in you city and contact me: amanda@endlesseye.org

This is your chance to help a community in need. It is your chance to change the world.

It starts with a library
that will bring hope to a community
and a culture
ready
for
change

Are you ready for change?