So Is This Now Officially a "Gay Blog"?

On my walk home from work tonight, I was stopped by this very cool ad on a bus shelter near 18th Street and Florida Avenue, NW. I've since discovered it's one of three ads (the other two feature straight couples) in the Condoms4Life campaign, sponsored by Catholics for a Free Choice and launched just yesterday, Valentine's Day. The tag line at the bottom reads: "Good Catholics Use Condoms."

I haven't been a "good Catholic," as the Church would define it anyway, in many years. But when I hear about enlightened, sensible, and inclusive efforts such as this, I think, "Yeah, maybe I am a Catholic."

Then I read about some idiocy from the mouth of Pope Benedict XVI and wonder, yet again, why in the world a gay person would want in on that club.

In any case, I think this is an inspiring, life-, soul-, and sex-affirming campaign, and it cheered me to no end to come across it completely unawares.

It's very much like the feeling I get when I pass the Planned Parenthood building on my way from the bus stop in the morning and see two or three volunteer escorts contentedly standing out front in the freezing cold or rain in their orange vests, chatting away with each other, ready to accompany a client who would otherwise be harassed by the geriatric, rosary-toting, right-wing lunatic who regularly plants himself on the sidewalk there.

Thumbs up!