Just a note FYI: 'The New Civil Rights Movement' blogger Jean Ann Esselink does a weekly piece where she chooses a brave reaction by someone being bullied or oppressed ... and lets us know of these wonderful people and what they have done.
This week, she begins the piece, On Our Radar – The Crusaders For Equality by describing being taught to play a credit card sized Ninentendo by a young friend. ... read and enjoy.
Eventually, we see SEVEN YEAR OLD Maddie, is already quite a teacher. FIRST, How to Play a NINTENDO she can barely see, then a life lesson. ...
It’s now ten minutes later and Princess Peachy is still taking her turn, but she gave me the opening for today’s Radar: “Sometimes you go looking for the battle, but sometimes the battle comes to you.’
..and as she describes:
The young group of friends from Marion County, Illinois who are On Our Radar this week, did not go looking for battle. This battle came to them.
Shortly after marriage equality became a reality in Illinois, these three billboards appeared at the corner of Routes 13 and 148, by the Marion Airport, in the community where our friends live:
HERE IS ONE of them, you get the idea.
It would have been easy for the friends to ignore the homophobic messages. Thousands of others who find them offensive do so every day. They could have vented their irritation with a choice comment shouted out the window or a show of the middle finger from the privacy of their cars. They could have commiserated with one another and moved on. Instead, the three couples and their friends, Bethany Groves and Vickie Valentine, decided not to let the Church Without Walls’ message of hate to go unchallenged.
The group started where everyone starts now, with a Facebook Page..
BUT THEN COMES THE REST OF THE STORY.. go to blog, you will see why they are ‘On Our Radar’