And an Eventful Week Draws To a Close

Well, let’s see. Monday we spent most of the day getting everything ready here at the house for our trip to Raleigh on Tuesday to do our part in helping to combat the infection of our town by NOM. This meant getting up earlier than normal so that I could get laundry done, move things out of the spare bedroom, do some last minute cleaning, and change the fragrances in our Scentsy plug-ins, as well as getting the things we needed for dinner on Monday evening. Then I had to run to Goldsboro to pick up one of our friends who went with us to Raleigh. I had also originally planned to make some yarmulkes for us to wear to the event, but things did not work out to allow me to complete that project.

Then on Tuesday, we got up, showered, ate breakfast, and got in the truck and headed to Raleigh. We got there just about 15 minutes before the equality rally began, and while NOM was still setting up for their infection. It was a very good day, we outnumbered NOM 255-61, and BZ was interviewed by several TV & radio outlets, plus we were interviewed by one of the NOM Tour Trackers from Courage Campaign, and that video may show up on Courage Campaign’s “Testimony: Equality on Trial” site shortly. We met Arisha and Phyllis with the Tour Tracker, and they are both such lovely ladies.

Then on Wednesday, word came down that Judge Walker was going to rule Thursday on a motion to stay filed by the Defendant-Interveners in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, so everyone was antsy about that. The ruling was due between 9AM and noon PDT, but it was almost 30 minutes after that. In his ruling, Judge Walker denied the motion for a permanent stay, but stayed this decision until Wednesday 18 August 2010 at 5pm PDT to allow time for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to consider any motions and other filings related to a stay. Yes, that was disappointing, but it merely shows that Judge Walker is a very astute judge who is making sure to dot all his i’s and cross all his t’s in this case. I mean, he had 8- findings of fact in this case, and in addition to saying that Proposition 8 violated the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the US Constitution with regard to sexual orientation, he also ruled that it violated those two clauses based on sexual discrimination. He found that even though suspect classification was merited, it was not necessary in this case, because Proposition 8 did not even survive rational basis review.

And then Friday, we were making preparations not only for Sabbath, but also for a meeting with one of our sons and his daughter to work out details of BZ officiating at her wedding, which will be on New Year’s Day. In a way, I feel that I am getting off a lot easier with this wedding than I did with the last wedding BZ officiated. This time, all I have to do is have our suits finished, and bake two round challahs. Compared to working on the programs and other details while getting ready for Passover, this will be a breeze. Especially since I should hopefully have enough time to get the suits done without rushing on any of the steps.

And I also finally got my email inbox cleared out. I did it by transferring all of the old emails to a file where I can take my time trying to sort all of them out into different categories and actually see which ones I can delete. This will make things a lot easier to take care of and to keep track of.

And now, for the pictures from Tuesday’s rally.

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