So, then.
I voted. Mark got up early and got down there to be in line when the poll opened. I decided to wait a bit and go down after I took The Claude for a walk and had a little brefkist. It was fine--the polling place is two blocks away, so I wandered down there, taking streets I don't usually walk on just to see them. On the way, I contemplated the fact that I hadn't seen or heard any ads against Question 6 (the marriage equality thing), and remembered that I'd read somewhere that they were concentrating their ad money in more, er, ethnic and more religious radio stations. I don't listen to the radio much, and when I do it tends to be NPR (which SO isn't going to be running ads against it) or more poppish/rock stations. Of course, I was also feeling nervous because the last poll I'd seen looked bad for 6 passing, although I just looked up a list of polls taken over the last year, and that was the one poll that stood out among the others as being by far the closest, and being one of two (and both polls were by the same people: OpinionWorks) where NO was ahead. And looking around a little more, they did another poll where more people were in favor, but other than the two that showed more people being opposed, it was the closest by a good bit. It's not a sure thing that it'll pass, but it's definitely less bleak than it seemed to me last week. Hopefully at least one of the states dealing with this will have it go well. It'll be really satisfying to see that asshole Brian Brown unable to say, "....but every time this has come up for a popular vote, it's been defeated!"
I want to see him crying just like he was in that picture when the equality bill passed in New York.
Aaaaaanyway, my point is that when I got to the polling place, I saw my first "NO on Question 6: Man + Woman = Marriage!" And I remember seeing things written by friends in California during the whole Prop 8 thing, and thinking that it seemed more personal for them than it did for me.....not that it didn't feel personal at all, just that they definitely seemed to feel it more than I did. Well, today when I saw that sign, I knew much better how they felt back then.
Yuck.
In other news, my stock-making adventure has continued. Yesterday I made turkey stock in preparation for thanksgiving. WHAT AM I GOING TO KILL AND BOIL NEXT?!
I want to see him crying just like he was in that picture when the equality bill passed in New York.
Aaaaaanyway, my point is that when I got to the polling place, I saw my first "NO on Question 6: Man + Woman = Marriage!" And I remember seeing things written by friends in California during the whole Prop 8 thing, and thinking that it seemed more personal for them than it did for me.....not that it didn't feel personal at all, just that they definitely seemed to feel it more than I did. Well, today when I saw that sign, I knew much better how they felt back then.
Yuck.
In other news, my stock-making adventure has continued. Yesterday I made turkey stock in preparation for thanksgiving. WHAT AM I GOING TO KILL AND BOIL NEXT?!