Prop 8

[thumbcat]

92% of the precints are in, and unless the remaining 8% are places like West Hollywood and Santa Monica, to the tune of 400,000 voters, it looks like Prop 8 will pass.

You did it. You religious nut jobs, you LIED and FEAR MONGERED your way to victory. You know, lying is a sin, and I hope your God looks you in the face and spits on it for your

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[dasenergi]

Agreed.

[shadowd1]

you're channeling my anger.

the rock which i go back to for solace right now is hoping our new president will be able to appoint a Supreme Court Justice of Earl Warren's caliber and this will go to the Supreme Court as a 14th amendment case (which it is).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Warren

[thumbcat]

I am soothed by the failure of Prop 4 and that hideous prop in Colorado that defined humanity as starting at conception...

Picture in my head if Colorado's prop had passed:
Pregnant woman drives her car while talking on the cell phone. In her distracted state, she gets into an accident and the result is a miscarriage. Two months later, she's in court for murder by way of negligence. (swap cell phone for eating disorder, drug addiction, ignorance of your pregnant condition and therefore making a decision that results in the miscarriage of that pregnancy, too much stress... etc.)

[eurekagray]

I heard about Prop 8 :( It is very sad, I know at least one couple that will be directly affected by this idiocy.

Keep fighting for equality.

[shazear]

There are still ways to deal with this, and the whole "equal protection under the law" aspect of where this breaks down. So I'm sure this isn't the last we've seen of this.

If it makes you feel any better, most civil rights issues take between 12 to 20 years to work themselves out. And I believe the specific same-sex marriage laws are only 4 years in. So we'll see it fixed by the time our kids are ready to vote at the latest.

[amphitrite27]

In fact it takes decades. I am disappointed, but it was closer then I expected, and many more youth voted then I expected. And hell in teh right climate maybe we can just separate the religious definition of marriage away from the legal, and at that point I'll get the legal and the marriage peeps can get married to each other in whatever way they wish.

We did better overall then I could have ever hoped...now we just keep working.

[thumbcat]

3 million absentee voters have yet to weigh in... not that their voting patterns are much different that the norm.

Of course, the word is that blacks, latinos, and non-college educated whites were the primary push over the top of passing the prop - and they are not the typical absentee voter demographic.

So, if ye olde voting demographic (pre-massive Obama turnout of minorities) is sitting closer to "No" rather than "Yes", then possibly... maybe... potentially... Probably not - but the race will most likely close the gap further.

Can't call it "an overwhelming majority who don't support gay marriage" anymore - the number of "NO" votes is more than the entire number of voters for "YES" for Prop 22 back in 2000.

[shadowd1]

the fight for same-sex marriage in california has been going on for most of my adult life, so it's been more like 15-20 years.

[ninjakitten]

::hugs::

You do furious a lot better than I do. Thank you for that.