I like this

[solarbird]

Dan Savage has an idea for civil disobedience on DOMA. I like this idea.

Comments

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

That's a very interesting idea. I'm curious like one commenter about the exact penalties, but it has the potential to be very powerful.

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

I like it! I'll donate and wear a white ribbon!

Cathy

[doragoon.livejournal.com]

i really don't understand the idea that symbolic protests are actualy effective.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

oh, this made me tear up and almost cry.
i probably physically couldn't handle being arrested (i have to have another hip surgery soon), and besides i am straight - but i *AM* straight, and if we (boyfriend and i) were *ALSO* willing to be arrested? or rather, other straight couples, TOO, are willing and DO?! that says EVEN MORE - that it ISN'T "just the gays" who want DOMA and DADT to be repealed, but almost EVERYONE.
actually, i decided - my being hadicapped just makes my participation even *better*. i would do this. i would force boyfriend to do this.

[403.livejournal.com]

Like all civil disobedience, the idea is to shame the recipient of the protest into doing the right thing.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

That does sound like a good idea. I'll be passing this along to some of my other LGBT friends.

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Read up on the history of the civil rights movement (you have heard of Rosa Parks, right?) and women's suffrage movement in this country, and Gandhi's movement to free India of British rule.

Of course, symbolic protests *alone* are not often effective, but they can make a big enough impact that they can make other efforts more likely to succeed.