Man Pledges To Starve Himself Until Same-Sex Marriage Banned In Utah

Via NYDailyNews
A Utah man is refusing to eat until his state restores a ban on same-sex marriages. Trestin Meacham, 35, has been surviving on water and the occasional vitamin pill since Dec. 21. Although he’s already lost 25 pounds, Meacham claims he won’t eat until all of Utah’s counties stop issuing gay marriage licenses. “You can start a blog and you can complain on social networks until you’re blue in the face and nothing will happen but actions speak louder than words and I’m taking action,” Meacham told 4Utah

. One day before Meacham began his fast with “no end in sight,” federal judge Robert J. Shelby ruled that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. This is “action”? Meacham, as a Mormon, believes that such marriages are evidence of sin. “I cannot stand by and do nothing while this evil takes root in my home,” the man wrote on Facebook. “Some things in life are worth sacrificing one’s [health]and even life if necessary.”
 If he believes that either the gays or the federal government cares whether this guy dies of starvation then he’s got life fawked up. “This has nothing to do with hatred of a group of people,” Meacham wrote on his blog. ” I have friends and relatives who practice a homosexual lifestyle and I treat them with the same respect and kindness that I would anyone. This is about religious freedom, and an out of control federal government.” Did he just invoke the “some of my best friends are Black” argument for the ban of gay marriage? SMH