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I don't think that anybody who knows me has any suspicion how I feel about the infamous Prop. 8, but this is the internet where everyone gets to have a say and I also believe that the more people that speak up and make their feelings known, the better. When it comes to local politics, I don't quite know where to turn, since I'm not sure what makes me a citizen of Washington or Illinois, I just know that I've got a mailing address here but I'm not registered to vote, and I am in IL. I think that means that I send a letter to Springfield, but anyhow.
Prop. 8 is a California thing, but it makes national news because it's a loaded topic that's on the nation's mind. There are a lot of people that supported the measure, and it got a lot of fairly dubious funding. Regardless of the interests that funded it, people still got the vote out in support of it, which means that the citizens of the state voted in favor of it, if barely. California's laws are different from most other states in that it only takes a simple majority of voters as opposed to a clear majority to pass, and that's actually good news from where I'm sitting.
No, not good news overall. Good news would have seen the proposition crushed under a locomotive. I will have to take what I can get.
California passed a measure to allow gay men and women to marry, and now a proposition is passed that they cannot. This is indicative of a larger struggle in the national mindset where this issue has become something people will talk about and vote over. That is went through the first time is a landmark, albeit a small one. That a proposition needed to be massively funded and barely passed demonstrates, to me, that this last ditch effort to stymie the tide of progressiveness.
It won't work. It's out of the bag now. This right, once given voice on the national stage, will never allow itself to be put back in the box. It will take some time, but we really must dedicate ourselves to sticking by our rights, as fellow humans, to create a better world for ourselves and others. Bills may be passed, but it is keeping the ideal in our minds and living it on a day to day level that eventually changes things and we're not about to go away.
Prop. 8 is a California thing, but it makes national news because it's a loaded topic that's on the nation's mind. There are a lot of people that supported the measure, and it got a lot of fairly dubious funding. Regardless of the interests that funded it, people still got the vote out in support of it, which means that the citizens of the state voted in favor of it, if barely. California's laws are different from most other states in that it only takes a simple majority of voters as opposed to a clear majority to pass, and that's actually good news from where I'm sitting.
No, not good news overall. Good news would have seen the proposition crushed under a locomotive. I will have to take what I can get.
California passed a measure to allow gay men and women to marry, and now a proposition is passed that they cannot. This is indicative of a larger struggle in the national mindset where this issue has become something people will talk about and vote over. That is went through the first time is a landmark, albeit a small one. That a proposition needed to be massively funded and barely passed demonstrates, to me, that this last ditch effort to stymie the tide of progressiveness.
It won't work. It's out of the bag now. This right, once given voice on the national stage, will never allow itself to be put back in the box. It will take some time, but we really must dedicate ourselves to sticking by our rights, as fellow humans, to create a better world for ourselves and others. Bills may be passed, but it is keeping the ideal in our minds and living it on a day to day level that eventually changes things and we're not about to go away.
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