Bittersweet victory....

[azzychan]

I am glad that Obama won. He has some good policies he wants to enact. Unfortunately, Amendment 2 passed last night too. We now have discrimination in our state constitution. It's a happy day for america, but a sad day for Florida.

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[sulinpanda]

Exactly.

[azzychan]

Yep...definition of marriage amendment.

[ghostwolf]

Florida is a Southern Bible Belt state, very heavy baptist presence, as I need not remind you. Even though I voted against - I find the idea of legislated morality repugnant unethical and immoral - I wasn't hopeful of its defeat.

Though the Liberals (or whatever tag one cares to use) have won the White House, the Conservatives will have their say in the States. As I once said, change will not come until Congress has a serious house-cleaning.

[digoraccoon]

Legislative morality is offensive indeed. Though you gotta admit the liberals have control of Congress as well so let's see what they do with their new found power...

[vanslanzerfanel]

I'm in agreement. I voted against 2, and even though my own religion would have something to say about homosexuality (and I'm not sure they're even right anymore, based on my own understanding) I still voted against it, because I don't believe the state has the power to do that. Granted I also think the marriage should be a purely religious institution, and we wouldn't be having this problem except that it's a state institution with certain legal benefits.

And I know the demographic of our state, which is why I was expecting it to pass anyway. But it's still depressing that all most of these people thought was "We got to stop the gays!" rather than actually trying to read that thing, and figure out all the implications. It limits the rights of heterosexual couples as well, if they're not married. As it's been discovered to do in the other states that have done this.

Eh, maybe there will come a time when we could actually pass an amendment to repeal it.

[ghostwolf]

I imagine someone will learn the hard way the Amendment/Proposition affects everyone detrimentally, and there'll be calls for its repeal.

And I'm willing to wager the religious will scream the loudest: "But this was supposed to protect marriage!"

Yes, but only marriage, not "living in sin."

I can hardly wait.