2008 Election Results

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Prop 8 passed, but it will be challenged, it will be struck down and there will be marriage equality in the future. I believe that strongly.

While I agree with your optimism for the future, I am truly embarrassed to be a part of the body of people who passed this proposition. It really makes me ill.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

While I agree with your optimism for the future, I am truly embarrassed to be a part of the body of people who passed this proposition. It really makes me ill.

I hear you. But take comfort in the fact that you are on the right side. Even though the rebels blew up the first Death Star they were still on the run and got their asses kicked on Hoth. The complete victory happened later. We will have our Ewok Moment!

[Gemini Cricket]

Is this simply a case of cognitive dissonance? By now, the media has reported the importance of the Latino vote to Obama's win in such key states as Florida, New Mexico, and Colorado. President-elect Obama, by some early estimates, garnered the largest share of the Latino vote of any candidate in history, carrying it by more than 2 to 1 over John McCain.
In spite of what seems to be sweeping approval for a progressive agenda, Latino support of Prop. 8 has exposed an entrenched bias against homosexuality at once profound and confounding.
Perhaps because of the teachings of the Roman Catholic priests and now the evangelical preachers who have captured many Latinos' devotional intensity; or simply because of the macho albatross we all carry as part of our Latino heritage, the very idea of gay marriage is anathema to many in the Latino community.

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