So tonight the motivation for writing in my blog is procrastination, which is as good as anything I guess.

A short bit on the news...So today the Massachusetts Legislature voted to ammend the constitution to disallow gay marriage. This will give the voters the decision to ratify or to not ratify the ammendment in 2006. I would be upset about this if I wasn't sure we had already won. On May 17th gay marriages will be allowed in Massachusetts, and nothing can stop that. By the time the people vote, they will have seen that gay marriages are not a threat to society, and that all the arguments brought up by conservatives are just a disguise for being uncomfortable with gay people. The Catholic Church is right to feel threatened by the ruling. Once people see how silly their arguments were, the Church will be ignored. That will be real progress...

I'm always moved by the statue in Marsh Plaza at BU. It is a statue in honor of MLK Jr. who graduated from the School of Theology, only a few yards from the spot of the monument. The statue's base is a stone block in the middle of the flat, concrete plaza. On top of the stone block is an iron flock of doves taking flight. On the sides of the block are inscriptions from MLK's most famous speeches.

I always thought it was a great work of art, because I think it really captured the spirit of the man. Unlike a somber figure made to look like him, it really conveys the indomitability of his cause and aslo the essence of what he fought for. The doves taking off always reminded me of the civil rights struggle, and how they went on no matter what. Sometimes, I'll even stop to read the words on the stone, because reading something engraved in stone can really make me feel the words, and hear the speech echoing in my head. It's always a powerful experience to observe it.