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When the religious right campaigned to repeal the right of California gays and
lesbians to marry, I was silent.  It's not that I didn't care or was uninterested...I
just didn't care enough to get involved.  I don't ever see myself getting
married, so I did not join the fight.

That was a mistake.  

So while I did not voice my opinions or feel alarmed at the potential for
California voters to feel strongly enough about gay marriage to amend the
state constitution, I do have a really short fuse when people take their
religious dogma out of their respective churches and expect everyone else to
adopt it.  I get even more impatient with the "it's the way it's always been"
argument.  I mean, get real.  If we lived by the way it's always been, we'd still  
believe in slavery and child labor.  

This art piece is my late entry into the argument and an apology for my earlier
silence.
The Art:

California Proposition 8
Words of the
Stiffnecked People

Exodus 32:9

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This art piece is
comprised of 250
wooden blocks, some
wrapped with Yes on 8
propaganda and others
wrapped in biblical text.  
They are arranged in a
chronological and
topographical order,
beginning with a
miniature Bible in the
center and yellow
blocks rising out of the
chaos and winding their
way through a sea of
scripture.

I took the words of the
fundamentalists and
re-printed them on Yes
on 8 yard signs and
bumper stickers.  I
gathered the quotes,
statistics, history, and
headlines and
re-arranged them on
yellow and blue Protect
Marriage material...and
then wrapped the
remaining blocks with
selected pages torn
from the Bible and Book
of Mormon.

For more detailed pics,
just click on the tabs to
the left.
Sacramento Pride event on June 20th,
2009, courtesy of the
YesOnGayMarriage organization.
The Prop 8 piece was on display at the 2009 Sacramento
Gay Pride event, courtesy of the YesOnGayMarriage
organization.  

Then it went to the Coalition for Repeal of Prop 8
conference in San Francisco on August 29th, 2009.  

Then it was on display at the California State Employee's
convention in Los Angeles over Labor Day, courtesy of the
SEIU Human and Civil Rights committee.

It then went to San Francisco for a one day show at the San
Francisco LGBT Center on October 10, 2009.

On October 26th 2009, it went to a celebrity concert  at the
San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts for the Defying
Inequality benefit.  

Where will it go next????  Perhaps it will soon become
obsolete...?....One can only hope.  If anyone would like to
display the piece, either for a fund raiser or gallery, just let
me know.  It's available to travel.
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