Some notes to add from Kate's notebook

I have a bit of time before I have to leave this morning to open the fair booth so I thought I would add some of the quotations Kate wrote in her notebook as she worked the booth last night. Here goes:

The Baptists from the booth next to ours came by and approached our booth asking "What do you have to do to get to heaven?" They conversed with Tony for 10-15 minutes. From what I understand the conversation was civil and polite. Here are some things they said during the conversation, which Kate wrote down: "I don't have the right to re-write the bible. We teach the truth that is in that bible. . . . If you go to my website, you'll see right on the front of our page how my church feels about homosexuality. . . . God has preserved his word for us."

Other visitors to the booth said:

"Is this the fist time you've been here? Wow. Something like this in Knox County--that's so cool!"

"My parents are both Pentecostal, and I'm the gay one in the family."

"Thank you so much. It's a good thing you guys are doing."

A young man and his girlfriend stopped by. He said, "My friend would be mad if she saw this. She tried to start a GSA at our school (Mt. Vernon HS) and she was turned down each time by this one teacher. She finally gave up when they wouldn't let same-sex couples at prom." Tony replied, "Well, by the time you're my age all this will be in the history books." The young man said, "If I have it my way, it'll be in the history books next year 'cause its illegal and they can't stop us."

One woman talked about the rainbow and how it's a secret way to show other lesbians you are gay.

An East Knox HS teacher stopped by for information and said, "There has been some interest by the students in this at the school lately."

Another passer by said, "This is different for Knox County."

Well, I am looking forward to working the booth today. I am hoping for a good one!