WHY, THAT'S DELIGHTFUL!

11:30 a.m.
Employing irony in the marriage debate

Outside
the State House, there are many more gay rights protesters than
anti-gay marriage demonstrators. One of the anti-gay marriage
proponents, Susie Hicks from Woburn, said this was because everyone
thinks gay marriage is a "done deal." She was at the State House with
her friend Angela Mitchell, also from Woburn. Mitchell held a sign that
read WE WANT THE BAY STATE NOT THE GAY STATE, THAT WOULD MEAN A SAD
STATE.

Her sign was in sharp contrast to some of those held by
gay marriage supporters that focus on gays who've made history such as
Leonardo da Vinci, Alan Turing, who invented the computer, and
Katherine Lee Bates, who wrote "America the Beautiful." The sign
focusing on Turning, for example, reads: DESTROY THE COMPUTER! IT'S A
HOMOSEXUAL INVENTION BY ALAN TURING. WHO CARES IF HE CRACKED THE GERMAN
ENIGMA CODE AND WON WORLD WAR II. IT'S A HOMO'S DEVIL MACHINE.

Tom
Lang of Manchester by the Sea held one of the signs -- which have taken
some viewers a few moments to figure out. "We're trying to show how
important gay people are to the American culture," Lang explained.
"We're not mental. We're not immoral. But we're important to society
and interwoven into the tapestry of America."

— reported by Deirdre Fulton

Doh! Of course! (Thanks also to Sean for pointing this out).

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