The View from Your Protest: Minneapolis

A reader writes:

I'm not very good at counting these things, but I'd say we had about 1,500 at the rally, an astonishing number considering that the organizing for this started Monday night, there wasn't even a vote in Minnesota on gay rights issues, and temps were in the mid-30s.  The sun had come out for the first time in days.  It was mostly people in their 20s, and a surprising number of straight couples and families with children. There were no counter-protesters. There were no anti-Mormon signs or statements from the speakers.  In fact, state senator Scott Dibble, an openly gay man, said of those who supported Prop 8: "They are good people.  They care about their families.  We must show them how much we care about ours."