Inspired By The Westboro Baptist Church

Entry posted by DogBonez4Me October 12, 2015

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So, a little over a year ago, RI had finally legalized same-sex marriage. August 1st was the first day licenses would be issued. And to help us celebrate the occasion, those party animals from the Westboro Baptist Church had flown out here and planned on showing up in a few places. So, I designed a sandwich-board type of sign, and had my good buddy, a very talented RISD graduate (Rhode Island School of Design), do the artwork. (Attahed. I added the Marvin upload cuz you can't really see the text in the other pic)

They had 5 stops on their agenda. I made it to 4 of them (1, 2, 3, & 5). The last stop happened to be my hometown city hall. Met a lot of great people and a bunch of us came up with some pretty creative cheers/retorts, etc. But it was not really organized. So, after leaving stop 3 I had about an hour and 15 minutes before they'd get to the last stop. , I ran home, took a quick shower (it was hot that day), poured myself another quart of iced coffee, banged out this little diddy, printed out 50 copies, and ran out the door. Now, NOW we had strength. Instead of a bunch of us shouting variious taunts, we were unified. Not exactly a Rogers & Hammerstein, but with an hour deadline, I think it came out OK.

Gay Marriage is coming to town

(to the tune of Santa Claus is coming to town)

If it’s two girls

Or if it’s two guys

We’re gonna get married

We’re telling you why

Gay-marriage is coming to town

We’ve got our guest list

We’re checking it twice

You’re not invited

I think you know why

Gay-marriage is coming to town

God sees you when you’re hating

He thinks you really suck

He says you’re gonna rot in hell

Cuz you’re just a bunch of schmucks

So, you better not come

Back to our town

Because if you do

You’ll leave with a frown

Cuz gay-marriage exists in this town

(like the last line only LOUD!!)

GAY-MARRIAGE EXISTS IN….THIS TOOOOWNNN!

And as a nice little icing on the cake, I found out that, while I was outside protesting, my ex and his partner of nearly 20 years (who I hadn't had a chance to see since I'd moved back from Boston) were inside getting married. How cool was that!