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Last night, I grabbed a late dinner with Kade and some his friends at Broadway Grill. It was fun to meet some of his friends and of course hang out with him again as well. He knew all the other guys except for one from Utah. Two of them are riders (Michael and Emil) on the Soulforce Equality Ride (West). They’re in Seattle to do demonstrations/dialog at Seattle Pacific University and Northwest University in Kirkland because of the anti-gay policies at those schools. We actually didn’t talk too much about the ride, although it came up a few times. Still, I continued to be impressed with this group and the work they’re doing.

I’m certainly not the biggest supporter of activism in general. Perhaps, living in Berkeley for five years jaded me too much to what I perceived as counterproductive, ineffective activism. However, what these folks are doing seems so important. The views regarding homosexuality held by the religious right are far more damaging to those glbt people trapped within that world than those of us on the outside (despite lots of political action for things like a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage).