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Feb 19 04: a good idea
And now, something to restore your faith in the fundamental decency of other humans. It all started sometime yesterday afternoon, when some folks in Minneapolis had this great idea.
The idea was simple and elegant. They wanted to reassure the nice boys and girls lined up outside San Francisco City Hall, waiting to get married, that there were people out there who believed in what they were doing, and who felt that love and commitment were a good thing and always worthy of celebration; that not everybody in the country had bought into the lie that queers tying the knot would lead to the general collapse of Western civilization; that there were Americans who recognized that all citizens are created equal, and that as such all citizens should be treated with equal respect by their nation. So they called a florist in SF, and bought a bouquet, to be delivered to a couple selected at random from those in the line. The card would simply read “With love, from Minneapolis, Minnesota.”
One of these folks wrote it up on her weblog. By this afternoon, I was seeing references to it all over the place. The idea has caught on. Apparently there are now bouquets streaming in from around the country.
Brave souls standing in the San Franciscan rain to get married, I salute you. Unknown Minnesotans with the generous spirits, I salute you. Multitudes of websurfers who decided that this could be a movement all in itself, a way to stand up and be counted and make a splash in the name of love and goodwil, I salute you. My heart is full to bursting.