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Nov 05, 2008 19:53

So excited and hopeful about the election of Barack Obama. So upset and dismayed about the likely outcome on Prop 8. Marriage equality never was going to be an easy fight. African Americans are still fighting for respect and equality 40-some years after the gains of the 1960s. Martin Luther King, Jr said that "[t]he arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." And as President-elect Obama said during the election, power does not give up control easily. So, I'll take solace in the words of Walt Whitman.

To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast,
To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead,
To calm, devoted engineers--to over-ardent travelers--to pilots on
their ships,
To many a lofty song and picture without recognition--I'd rear
laurel-cover'd monument,
High, high above the rest--To all cut off before their time,
Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire,
Quench'd by an early death.

Edit: If you are a law nerd, you might want to read this article about whether Prop 8 is a revision or an amendment and what that means. http://volokh.com/posts/1225923130.shtml
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