I am feeling immense relief over the result of our presidential election, but a heavy heart over the outcome of California ballot measure Prop 8. Yesterday, more Californians than not voted to reverse a California Supreme Court ruling making gay marriage legal in California. That means that the majority of people in the state I live in voted to legalize and actually make part of our constitution discrimination based on sexual preference.
Am I really living in 2008? Are the majority of people in this great state of mine actually bigots? How could this have happened?
Proponents of Prop 8 stated that they were trying to preserve “traditional marriage.” Well, if “tradition” was preserved in this country, Obama might be a slave instead of President Elect, my Japanese neighbors might be living out the rest of their lives in an interment camp, my Wiccan friend would be burned as a witch, and I would not be allowed to own my home because I am female.
Is “tradition” really what we should be fighting to preserve? “Progress” sounds a lot sweeter to me! I only hope that The California Supreme Court decides that it is illegal to make discrimination a part of our State Constitution.
