Meanwhile, Prop 8 in California passes, meaning that gay marriage is illegal again. What is wrong with people? I thought in a time of celebration of diversity, maybe there would be some recognition that all humans are human.
Don't blame me - I voted against it and it failed in my county. What they're saying is that the percentage of voters against gay marriage is far smaller than what it was the last time an issue like this was on the value so they're taking some comfort it that. And it's under appeal. And I guess it's still up in the air if the marriages conducted while it was legal are still valid or not. Wouldn't that suck if they weren't?
It really is a sad day re: Prop 8. I had really just assumed it would fail... not that I could vote on it or anything.
What's interesting, though, is that I read an article saying that it may be a downstream effect of Obama's get-out-the-vote efforts... apparently a large number of black voters voted for Prop 8, and they think a lot of these folks wouldn't have voted if not for Obama. We experienced a similar effect in my home county, where some of our best judges were beaten by, among other things: a) a man who has never practiced law before and ran solely because he didn't like the way the sitting judge handled his divorce case; and b) a woman who specifically said she didn't want the job and didn't campaign. The link between all of these strange winners? They were endorsed by the black caucus.
I don't know what the significance of all that is, and as much as I hate these results, I'm still glad we got Obama elected, but it is interesting academically.
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Homophobia isn't broadly seen as wrong as distateful the way open racism is.
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What's interesting, though, is that I read an article saying that it may be a downstream effect of Obama's get-out-the-vote efforts... apparently a large number of black voters voted for Prop 8, and they think a lot of these folks wouldn't have voted if not for Obama. We experienced a similar effect in my home county, where some of our best judges were beaten by, among other things: a) a man who has never practiced law before and ran solely because he didn't like the way the sitting judge handled his divorce case; and b) a woman who specifically said she didn't want the job and didn't campaign. The link between all of these strange winners? They were endorsed by the black caucus.
I don't know what the significance of all that is, and as much as I hate these results, I'm still glad we got Obama elected, but it is interesting academically.
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