Thank you for the encouragement

[MuseRider]

and good vibes that you all sent to me for my NY Times interview last night, I felt it. The update...Erin Norris and I met with a reporter named Judy. Sorry, that is all I know, I flew in there after running a very big(for us) and successful phone bank. We sat on the floor, this is grass roots and we have NO money for extras like chairs, in a little room and chatted. I guess I expected it to be more formal. My only real fear is that this article will be less about discrimination and more about anti Fred Phelps. We attempted to defuse that but in actuality he started it with a petition on the Westboro Baptist Church stationary so I guess much of it is about Fred. I hope it comes out well. Erin had the sound bite of the night I think saying that it made her very nervous that the majority, about 95%, were voting on the rights of the minority in a town this charged about the topic. I tried to get the point across that outsiders see us here as giving tacit approval to his message of hate by ignoring him when the outsiders react with a gasp. We have done everything as a city and as individuals to stop this but it has proven costly in both money and personal consequence and impossible. Lets hope that the city lives up to the message that we sent out that they are not hateful homophobes.

Thanks to you all. Being on this site has given me the courage and knowledge to be this active. I will post the link when it gets in. I hope the article and the vote on Tuesday turns out well. http://www.votenomarch1st.org/

Back to it!