Good neighbors

Thomas Lang and Alexander Westerhoff believe strongly that neighbors should know each other. So strongly, in fact, that they've started KnowThyNeighbor.org, a website devoted to knowing, if not all about your neighbors, at least whether or not they signed a petition in support of traditional marriage. Oh, and in case you weren't sure which neighbors they are, the couple has posted home addresses as well. Tom and Alexander are one of the couples that got "married" during that brief time that Massachusetts was performing mock ceremonies for gay couples. It really cheeses them off that the rest of us don't believe they're married.

KnowThyNeighbor is a great idea, really. Even though I live at the other end of I-90 from them, I feel closer to these signers already. I'm inclined to send a batch of cookies to every family listed as they get published. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Lang-Westerhoff (or is it Westerhoff-Lang? Maybe they take turns) are such good neighbors – at 3 Colburn Rd. Manchester, MA, 01944-1201, (978) 526-9707 – that it would be downright unneighborly of us all not to drop them a card or something to congratulate them on their nuptials and their courage in exposing their neighbors for what they really are: people different from themselves.

Update: Woops! According to a press release at KnowThyNeighbor, Tom and Alexander aren't alone in their neighborly concern. They're joined by co-director Aaron Tomeos and his wife, of 7 Sunrise Rd., Boxford. MA, 01921-2319, (978) 887-8547.

A/T to my good neighbor Timotheos at Balaam's Ass.