The Proposition 8 situation

[chrishansenhome]

As someone who votes in California but who is not able to vote on state offices or questions, I wasn't able to vote against Proposition 8. However, I feel its passage keenly. My friends in California have had a right granted by their Constitution removed from them, and have become, yet again, separate but equal. I cannot tell you how this makes me feel. As you might imagine, this move is profoundly un-American, mean spirited, bigoted, and just plain wrong.

While this battle has been lost, I hope to live to see the day where every person, everywhere, has the right to marry whomever they love deeply. Our own Civil Partnership should be a marriage, is called a marriage by most people, and IS a marriage, as far as I am concerned. HWMBO and I are very lucky indeed. Every person, no matter their sexuality, should be so lucky.

I truly believe that this vote will come to be seen as shameful and wrong by a majority of Californians, and I look forward to the day when Prop 8 is repealed.

I do hope that some effect on the tax-exempt status of churches that agitated for Prop. 8 might occur.

Comments

Re: Passing oppression and other societal flaws

[gmjambear]

Just like with anything that deals with society, change happens slowly. Too slowly for my taste.

I do hope that some effect on the tax-exempt status of churches that agitated for Prop. 8 might occur.

I concur.