Equality Box

From Yahoo:
"Gay marriage equality box spreads on social media"

Bud Light said it with beer cans and Martha Stewart with red velvet cake as companies and celebrities from Beyonce to George Takei joined millions of social media users in posting and tweaking a simple red logo in support of gay marriage.A square box with thick pink horizontal lines (the mathematical equal symbol) was offered for sharing this week by the Human Rights Campaign as the U.S. Supreme Court took up arguments in key marriage rights cases. The image, replacing profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest and elsewhere, is a makeover of the advocacy group's logo, usually a blue background with bright yellow lines. The HRC made it available in red — for the color of love — on Monday and estimated tens of millions of shares by Wednesday. "It shows the enthusiasm and the passion," said Fred Sainz, a spokesman for the nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Like viral campaigns of yore, supporting breast cancer awareness (pink), President Barack Obama (change your middle name to Hussein) and even Arab Spring (green), a bit of fatigue set in on some social media streams by those questioning whether such efforts serve to change any minds.

^ I saw the Equality Box all over Facebook. I believe gay people should be allowed to marry. I like the campaign "Straight, but not narrow" where non-gays show their support for gay rights. People have said that those that support gay rights are gay themselves. That's pretty stupid since history has shown examples of other groups helping those oppressed. Non-Jews helped Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, men helped women get the right to vote, white Americans helped black Americans bring down Jim Crow in the South. What really gets me is those who strongly oppose making everyone equal and protected under the law. You do not have to agree with their livestyle to support their rights under the law. Hopefully the Supreme Court will make gay marriage legal and we can move on as a better country. ^

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