Day 3 at the Fair, part II (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)

3:35pm Two people from the career center, about to graduate as RNs, one man and one woman stopped by and thanked us for being here. They also picked up information.

3:40pm Another visitor - A gay man with his gay roommate. He said he came last year and our booth was one of the reasons he came to the fair again this year.

3:47pm A boy stopped by and took some candy. He then asked his friends, "Hey, do you think this is gay candy?" Larry responded, "Yes, it is!"

3:47pm A lady stopped by, made a generous donation and thanked us for our work.

3:55pm A man walked past the booth saying, "it's all sin..." Victoria's notes say he went on and on being unkind.

At this point the three interactions with the gentlemen from the baptist temple (as explained by Victoria in the last post) took place. After the 8 year old boy, who was sent by the people in the baptist temple's booth showed us the bible verses and explained to our members that we were sinners, left a young teenage girl (12 - 14) came up to Robert sitting at the booth and said, "You just told my brother it's ok to be gay. It's not it's a sin and it's in the bible." Robert actually didn't say that to the boy, he had only just arrived.

6:27pm Sasha from the Freedom Center (which has a booth across the way) stopped by and said, "I just wanted to stop by and say I'm glad you all are here. You're turning a lot of heads and that's a good thing."

6:37pm Ruth came by and talked about how good this is, and told Robert about her gay grandson, who is getting his PhD, and how close he is to their son, who is his gay uncle.

6:43pm Tom stopped by, he goes to the First Congregational church where we hold our meetings. Always nice to see a friendly face.

7:02pm A kid came by and said that people are created to be straight and Robert launched into his response: "You have a friend or family member who is gay and they are afraid to tell you because they are afraid you won't love them anymore." The boy said, "Well, I'd love them anyway." He then asked us if we are gay and when four of us said "yes" he just said, "you're kidding me!"

7:14pm A person stopped by and wanted one of our flags, we gave him some literature.

8:16pm A man named David came by to say that we're using a lot of hate language in our signage in talking about bigots. Robert thanked him for pointing that out and he replied, "maybe I've said too much."

8:18pm A woman with a little boy came by to pick up some literature and took the Soul Force pamphlet.

8:21pm A woman pushing another in a wheelchair said, "We're married. We want to get involved in this." They have a 17 year old son.

8:40pm Monica, Chris and Sophie came to the booth with a couple and their two kids from their church in Centerburg.