The View From Your Protest: DC

A reader writes:

As a straight man, and a lifelong Republican (until the Palin pick), I was rare company at the DC Prop. 8 protest.  I went because discriminating against homosexual marriages isn't just wrong, it's ridiculous. 

Walking through the crowd in front of the US Capitol, I was nearly moved to tears.  To look into the faces of so many people and realizing that their lives felt incomplete, that they were told by our government and by many in our society that they are somehow less than human, that they do not deserve the same rights as everyone else, was nothing short of depressing. 

This was my first protest march ever; yet, through the cold rain of a November Saturday, for far longer than I'd walk on any other day, in the company of people with little in common with me, I felt completely fulfilled.  The protesters felt like family.