Bittersweet at best. To quote a tweet I pushed out ealier:

FWIW I voted No on CA Prop 8. But apparently you still account for stupid people in large numbers. I'm hoping it gets overturned.

Prop 8 affects 1 state and it made me sad.

Presidential election affects 50 states and makes me happy.

I am left with 49 happiness.

^K0MMIE is left with no husband.

Copied from my Jon Stewart post:

Congratulations Californians, you've officially written BIGOTRY into the STATE CONSTITUTION! You officially care about CHICKENS more than you do about PEOPLE! I couldn't be more incensed and ashamed!

Beautiful.

>> ^Sketch:
Copied from my Jon Stewart post:
Congratulations Californians, you've officially written BIGOTRY into the STATE CONSTITUTION! You officially care about CHICKENS more than you do about PEOPLE! I couldn't be more incensed and ashamed!


I am going to use this line a lot. Thanks.

Well gays, you're not alone, there are plenty of you here on the sift. And yet you are alone...so very alone.

Well maybe in another 4 years it can always fail again!

I'm surprised by prop 8, and I am surprised a bit that such a thing could pass in California, but of all the myriad issues, gay marriage is pretty close to the bottom for me.

Yes, I think bans on it are backward and small minded, but there are plenty of people out there who think torture & no diplomacy should be permanent parts of US foreign policy.

There are people who think it's okay to kill doctors who work at abortion clinics, people who think tax cuts for the middle class are welfare, and that private citizens should be able to anonymously purchase military assault rifles.

There are people who think Democrats are Communists, and that anyone who doesn't believe every word of what Rush Limbaugh says is a mindless zombie brainwashed by the "liberal" media.

We lost one battle on one issue in CA, but Michelle Bachmann, who called for an investigation into which Congresspersons are "anti-American" got re-elected.

Alaska has very nearly re-elected a convicted felon as a Senator, and Sarah Palin is still a Governor of a state, with people hoping she'll run for President in 2012.

I want gay marriage rights to be granted, and with the name "marriage", not civil unions, but there are frankly bigger fish to fry right now.

We lost one battle, but we won 20. Prop 8 won't stand for long if we turn the tide of public opinion in this country, and I think we've started to do that.

Honestly, it shouldn't matter what someone thinks about gay marriage, the bottom line is that discrimination will be written into the State Constitution. And the ultimate goal for these people is to write it into the U.S. Constitution. I find that utterly offensive.

It did sour my elation a bit, but I'll still pretty happy. Obama will be in the position to overturn that bullshit for good in a few months, if the SC doesn't do it before then.

^Well, he's anti-gay marriage, so he's not going to exactly be gung-ho about it.

if you had voted in a president who upholds a rule of law instead of a rule of majority, you wouldn't have to worry about 51% of people banning gay people from getting married...

Law of Political Physics: For every good vote, there is an equal, yet opposite bad vote.

>> ^imstellar28:
if you had voted in a president who upholds a rule of law instead of a rule of majority, you wouldn't have to worry about 51% of people banning gay people from getting married...


What does the President of the U.S. have to do with a Prop vote? It's the Supreme Court that will eventually decide what the rule of law should be, not the President.

What boggles my mind is that to change the California state constitution requires only a simple majority vote but to provide funding for improving earthquake safety on BART requires a 2/3 majority (and it nearly failed). What the hell?