National Day Without a Gay Encourages Same Sex Marriage Supporters to Call in Gay

After the Day Without a Mexican, We Now Have a Day Without a Gay. Could We Have a Day Without a Special Interest Group Myopic Agenda Bias Instead?

Call In Gay on the Day Without a Gay

Wednesday is slated to be the "Day Without a Gay" when same sex marriage proponents are suggesting a nationwide call in gay day. Taking their clues from the "Day Without a Mexican," organizers of call in gay day want to illustrate just how integrated gays and lesbians are in everyday society.

Call In Gay Day is NOT a Day Off

ABC News reports that "Day Without a Gay" is run concurrently with the International Human Rights Day. Calling in gay organizers urge prospective participants to plan on using their day off for volunteer work but to "refrain from spending money." This form of economic protest coupled with hands-on charity could potentially have a huge impact ... were it not for a few problems with the setup.

Calling In Gay to Protest Election Outcome Alienates Communities

With the narrowest of margins, Proposition 8 ended gay marriage in California -- even after activist mayor Gavin Newsome (the man who would be governor) and activist judges ushered it in repeatedly. When gay marriage was overturned by voters, the backlash against the Christian community - and the Mormon faith communities in particular - has become harrowing.

Street protests in front of houses of worship, McCarthy-esque outings of entertainment industry professionals who contributed to the Proposition 8 campaign and also a muddling of the issues - referring to the ban of gay marriage as an "anti-gay" ballot initiative -- do little to create a unified front.

Day Without a Gay Isolates the Gay Community

Even as organizers are thinking of the Calling in Gay day as taking "a historic stance against hatred by donating love," they fail to recognize that pitting the gay community into an "us versus them" battle based on absolutes that so very rarely exist, will actually lead to a potential backlash.

While quoted on ABC News as being "all for a boycott if that is what brings about a sense of community for people," referring to anyone who failed to support gay marriage as a hater most likely will fail to create this very impression.

Confuses Losing a Job for Calling in with Getting Fired For Being Gay