sad & mad about prop 8

I really tried to hold out yesterday… that magically they’d count the rest of those votes & prop 8 would fail after all… but alas, it passed. And, as most of you know, the nation is pissed. It was hard for me to see so many celebrating Obama, and then curse out California. :'( It definitely sucks.

My friend Kevin’s tweet summed up one of my feelings on it: “YesOn8 voters: your lives are unchanged, but you crushed the hearts of many. If NoOn8 happened, your lives would have still been unchanged.”

I also really loved this post by Andrew Sullivan:

 

“Yes, it is heart-breaking: it is always hard to be in a tiny minority whose rights and dignity are removed by a majority. It’s a brutal rebuke to the state supreme court, and enshrinement in California’s constitution that gay couples are now second-class citizens and second class human beings. Massively funded by the Mormon church, a religious majority finally managed to put gay people in the back of the bus in the biggest state of the union.”


*sigh*

I really don’t have much more to say about it, other than my friends & I are committed to helping see this CHANGE. Obama as president is a HUGE step forward, and one I’m beyond grateful for. So maybe it’s just a matter of two steps forward & one step back. We’ll get there, people! Our country is changing, consciousness is rising… equality will prevail.

If you feel as passionate about this as we do, please sign this petition to re-open Prop 8.

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