the Laramie Project, Framingham High School
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December 3rd and 4th my old high school is putting on a production of The Laramie Project.
The Westboro Psychotics ClubBaptist Church has promised to protest the Saturday (December 4th) show. There will of course be a counter-demonstration, as well as a candlelight vigil the previous night in memory of all the innocent candles that have given themselves for candlelight vigils in years gone by. OK, maybe that's not what the vigil is for; there seems to be no explicit target for vigilance, but maybe I'm supposed to magically know whom or what to be vigilant about. Hopefully it's something like teen suicide and not something like the warning signs of gum disease.
If I'm not doing anything else, I may well go to the counter-demonstration. If I get really ambitious I might make a sign saying "GOD HATES FABRIC BLENDS" or "GOD HATES SHAVING" or "GOD HATES CROP ROTATION" with appropriate Biblical citations. (Or, if I'm feeling more serious, maybe something about how God hates when you're impolite to strangers.)
The play will sell out and there will be no ticket sales at the door, especially on the night the Phelpsoids are there. It is of course a high school production and thus will probably not be very good, but if for whatever reason you actually want to go, get your tickets now.
My parents' UU church's minister will be in the play, playing the role of the UU minister (doesn't sound like a stretch). The following Tuesday, December 7th, from 7-9pm she'll be hosting an interfaith panel of local clergy, "Standing on the Side of Love: A Community Conversation".
The day before yesterday, about 100 students at my former high school wore purple and walked around without saying anything to kick off their "Love is Louder" campaign for tolerance and acceptance. (Not clear how being silent is the way to demonstrate the idea of "louder".) I liked this quote, "The students said they wanted to wear purple today so they don't have to wear black tomorrow." What I like even better is that the guy quoted saying that is the faculty adviser to the students' Gay Straight Alliance.
It hasn't been all that long since I was in high school. When I attended that school, there was no way that students would have put on a play like The Laramie Project, and the idea of a Gay Straight Alliance student group would have been inconceivable. There sure wouldn't have been 100 students wearing purple. It's happened kind of gradually, so it's easy to have missed the progress, but it's there, and it's a big deal.
December 3rd and 4th my old high school is putting on a production of The Laramie Project.
The Westboro Psychotics ClubBaptist Church has promised to protest the Saturday (December 4th) show. There will of course be a counter-demonstration, as well as a candlelight vigil the previous night in memory of all the innocent candles that have given themselves for candlelight vigils in years gone by. OK, maybe that's not what the vigil is for; there seems to be no explicit target for vigilance, but maybe I'm supposed to magically know whom or what to be vigilant about. Hopefully it's something like teen suicide and not something like the warning signs of gum disease.
If I'm not doing anything else, I may well go to the counter-demonstration. If I get really ambitious I might make a sign saying "GOD HATES FABRIC BLENDS" or "GOD HATES SHAVING" or "GOD HATES CROP ROTATION" with appropriate Biblical citations. (Or, if I'm feeling more serious, maybe something about how God hates when you're impolite to strangers.)
The play will sell out and there will be no ticket sales at the door, especially on the night the Phelpsoids are there. It is of course a high school production and thus will probably not be very good, but if for whatever reason you actually want to go, get your tickets now.
My parents' UU church's minister will be in the play, playing the role of the UU minister (doesn't sound like a stretch). The following Tuesday, December 7th, from 7-9pm she'll be hosting an interfaith panel of local clergy, "Standing on the Side of Love: A Community Conversation".
The day before yesterday, about 100 students at my former high school wore purple and walked around without saying anything to kick off their "Love is Louder" campaign for tolerance and acceptance. (Not clear how being silent is the way to demonstrate the idea of "louder".) I liked this quote, "The students said they wanted to wear purple today so they don't have to wear black tomorrow." What I like even better is that the guy quoted saying that is the faculty adviser to the students' Gay Straight Alliance.
It hasn't been all that long since I was in high school. When I attended that school, there was no way that students would have put on a play like The Laramie Project, and the idea of a Gay Straight Alliance student group would have been inconceivable. There sure wouldn't have been 100 students wearing purple. It's happened kind of gradually, so it's easy to have missed the progress, but it's there, and it's a big deal.