Speaker: Midge Noble
Midge Noble: Hi, everybody. My name is Midge Noble and I'm the host of the Gay with God podcast and also wrote a memoir called Gay with God Reclaim, reclaiming my faith and honoring my story. And let me tell you about why I voted. I voted because one, it's a gift. We have the gift to vote in our own lifetime. There were people who were not allowed to vote, then they had to pay a poll tax in order to make their vote count and they had to pass all sorts of jumps and hoops to get their vote in. We have been gifted with this moment of clarity where we get to choose who we're going to vote for and I am proud to place my vote as a out gay woman who has a wife and a family and a job that I love that I can do in a free country and a free democracy. I am voting for all of those who never could. I am voting for all those who should I am voting for all those who want to have their voice known as much as I want to have my voice, my voice. Known, voting is a privilege. And it is my way to say that I cast my vote for Kamala Harris because I believe in democracy, I believe in freedom of reading whatever we want to read without it being banned. I believe in all gay kids being able to reach out to adults and say I need to talk to you about this. I'm confused or I'm scared or my parents don't get it. I'm voting for all those people who are disenfranchised with images and, and rhetoric that may not be true and most often is not true. I'm voting for every bullied, marginalized person who is being terrorized with laws that are archaic and terrorized with the fear that my marriage will be gone, that we may get deported out of this country because we're not evangelical enough. I am gay with God and I deserve to be gay with God. I deserve to go to church. I deserve to praise God. I deserve to call God, whatever I want to call God. I deserve to kneel if I'm upset and I'm trying to protest silently. I deserve to have all the rights and freedoms of this country and yet we don't yet. So I am voting for Kamala Harris to keep that door of freedom open and I am proud to do it and I hope everybody else is too Noma Day and let's vote for democracy.
