Crowds gathered near public buildings in cities large and small, including Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Fargo, to vent their frustrations, celebrate gay relationships and renew calls for change.

My eyes stuttered when I got to Fargo.  As in North Dakota?  Well, I’m sure there are gay people there too.  This is exactly what needs to happen– a nationwide movement for marriage rights.  Read the full story here.

I like Melissa Etheridge’s tactic:

“I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.”

Yeah, it’s another non-food related post/rant/rambling on a blog about veganism, but these issues are important too.  Prof. Francione says it best:

We live in a society permeated by racism, sexism, heterosexism, and speciesism. These attitudes all share in common exclusion of some group from membership in the moral community based on irrelevant characteristics (race, sex, sexual orientation, species). If we are ever to make progress as a civilization, we have to reject all of these forms of discrimination. All discrimination is a form of violence.