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Thu Dec 17
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11/06/08
It took a long time to win universal suffrage - for everyone to get a right to vote extended from only white men of property to white men without property to white women to African Americans & other people of color to youth over 18 years of age.
It's the same with this. The Yes on 8 people made it OK to openly discriminate against a group of people. It's our - all of us who believe in equality & justice for all, no matter our personal beliefs about marriage or religion - job to make people as ashamed about doing this as they would be about being openly racist.
Ponder this, a substantial portion of California Obama voters voted Yes on Prop. 8.
My husband and I married in 1993. But we couldn't have gotten married just a few decades before, because it was illegal for whites and people of color to marry - just like in apartheid South Africa. Imagine if that had been encoded in California's Constitution. Imagine if the Emancipation Declaration had to be approved by popular vote. Human rights and civil rights should not be a matter of the popular vote.
We lost - a discriminatory provision taking away civil and human rights was written into a state constitution for the first tine ever anywhere in the U.S. Eighteen thousand couples will have their marriages invalidated. I was hoping against hope, but California voters don't have a great record of doing the right thing (Prop. 22 - anti-LGBT, Prop. 187 - anti-immigrant). I don't know what our next step is - a lawsuit, or bringing another initiative to the voters.
We underestimated our opposition - we were out-organized, out-numbered, out-prepared, out-everything. They were effective with their misleading propaganda that this issue was about recruiting children to become gay/lesbian. We started a little too late and tried to catch up in the last three weeks what we should have been doing for months. We need to take lessons from our opposition and the Obama campaign if we are to succeed next time. Today, I'm in mourning.
11/05/08
11/05/08
"Chill, dude. I probably could afford that extra $12 if I made $250K. Whereas now, I cannot."
He also seems to think that we have all been swept away in a wave of starry-eyed magicality, and somehow forgot to actually look at any of the specifics of what Obama plans to do. DOH! I KNEW I had forgotten something!
11/05/08
Yes, it's spelled wrong (great schools too! Imagine...). I lived near and went to HS at West Hazleton HS.
11/05/08
I still say that without the bay area CA is just a larger, scarier FL. And frankly, despite lots of good stuff, the bay area still has a hell of a lot of liberal stupid floating around too.
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The whole WORLD really loves our new president, peeps!
11/05/08
How's the weather there, BTW?
11/05/08
Oh PS if you need references for your Obama transition staff job there are about 20,000 jezzies who would vouch for you happily.
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11/05/08
One can only HOPE. That anger will bring this stupid shit DOWN.
I've always talked about gay rights activism in the abstract, but I am now doing with a much bigger scope. I'm waiting for the LGBT Center to process my volunteer app so I can get to business.
11/05/08
I'm trying to stay positive... at least the chickens and cows and other farm animals have rights.
:-/
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I had to set a friend straight on the myth that Obama was voted in because he is black. Ummm, I'm black, and I can say with conviction that he was voted in DESPITE the fact that he's black. Plus, we all wanted the girls to get that puppy.
11/05/08
Quite the switcheroo.