The Gay Marriage Debate Comes To St. Louis. Sort Of.

This morning, Fox2 News kept talking about a wedding that happened this weekend. The minister will attempt to file an affidavit of marriage today at the St. Louis County Courthouse.

Here's the interesting thing: The couple announced their intent to marry, applying for their marriage license when they returned from their honeymoon. They let the media know. Newspapers were spreading the story as far back as Wednesday. As a result, a handful of people showed in silent protest. There was no shouting. No one pointed fingers or threw rotten vegetables. St. Louis just isn't that kind of town. Our activists are lackadasical, at best. Something has to be a really big deal to bring out more than a handful of fruitcakes.
We've had more people protesting Bush, who shows up practically unannounced once a month; than people protesting a marriage they had time to prepare for. I think that says something.

I also think it says something when you can protest a wedding right in fromt of a church, but you can't protest the President anywhere around him. You must be in a designated protest area, sometimes as far as a quarter of a mile away. If you didn't follow the links to examples of this restriction of speech, at least read this one.

And speaking of protesting. I must protest my Cardinals Baseball team inviting Bush to the season opener.