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October 23, 2004, 8:37pm
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Thousands of anti-wedding vows at D.C. rally
Odd that people who embrace being different would be so anti-gay.
.—They stood near the front of the crowd at the Mayday for Marriage rally on October 15. Just behind a contingent carrying massive wooden crosses were three kids in full punk regalia: T-shirts ripped, Doc Martens painted and scuffed, hair dyed and spiked. The older folks in attendance, most in the casual American uniform of sweatshirts and pleated khakis, carved a little moat of anxiety around the trio. Were they there to mock the tens of thousands of mostly fundamentalist Christians who had gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to protest same-sex marriage? Were the kids going to scream out some foul-mouthed pro-gay slogans? Not a chance. Josie King, 22, Johnny Emenheiser, 20, and Brandon Runk, 21—bandmates in a group called Human Error—had come from York, Pennsylvania, for the same reason as everybody else: to decry the idea that marriage could ever be anything but the union between a man and a woman. “Marriage is the foundation of human culture,” said King. She slouched in her black leather jacket and her fluorescent pink lipstick stained her teeth, but she spoke with confidence. “When you can say that two men or two women can raise children equally, that’s basically degradation to all human beings.”
Ya know, I want to make cheap shots at the fine people from the fine city of York, but I respect our York Dopers too much to make those kinds of generalizations.
Robin
Count the punks.
Divide by total punk population.
I am a horrible, intolerant person, but I can’t help thinking about the name that band chose for themselves. Human Error, indeed.
…slinks away…