Sorry if I was unclear - he moved to not hold a vote on whether we should become Open & Affirming for ten years, and the vote on that passed.
By tabling it for ten years, they avoided having to put “ALSO, STILL NOT OFFICIALLY COOL WITH GAY PEOPLE” in the annual report every year. No matter how nice and supportive folks actually were, having to reiterate that we weren’t Open & Affirming made us seem… Well, Closed & Disparaging, like the Catholics down the street.
I actually asked the guy about it a few years later, when I was old enough to actually pay attention to the annual meetings - he said he was pretty sure that the old lady didn’t have ten more years left, and he wanted to make sure that it passed the next time that it was voted on.
Why was it supported for 10 years but not 1 year?
Sorry if I was unclear - he moved to not hold a vote on whether we should become Open & Affirming for ten years, and the vote on that passed.
By tabling it for ten years, they avoided having to put “ALSO, STILL NOT OFFICIALLY COOL WITH GAY PEOPLE” in the annual report every year. No matter how nice and supportive folks actually were, having to reiterate that we weren’t Open & Affirming made us seem… Well, Closed & Disparaging, like the Catholics down the street.
I actually asked the guy about it a few years later, when I was old enough to actually pay attention to the annual meetings - he said he was pretty sure that the old lady didn’t have ten more years left, and he wanted to make sure that it passed the next time that it was voted on.