A veteran on my flist asks

[carolf]

Joining LJ gave me the gift of a friend I've never met who keeps me thinking ...

He is not happy about something in this election; so unhappy, in fact, that --

Well, behind the cut is my response to one of his posts.  You'll get the flavor of his unhappiness in the parts of his post I quote in my response.

Comments

[maiac]

I sympathize with his dismay over the passage of Proposal 8. The news put a considerable damper on my pleasure in the presidential election. It's unpleasantly ironic that so many Californians would vote against civil rights in the same election.

I'm not a one-issue voter, however. I don't judge the entire country by this one setback for sanity, any more than I expect everything Obama to be exactly what I want in a president and never disappoint me. The vote on Proposal Hate just reminds us that our society is complex and we still have a lot of work to do to achieve our ideal of a "perfect union".

dangit

[msminlr]

Sorry for the duplicate posts with the bum links. Here's the whole quote:

From the ACLU website:

"The petition charges that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process was improperly used in an attempt to undo the constitution's core commitment to equality for everyone by eliminating a fundamental right from just one group - lesbian and gay Californians. Proposition 8 also improperly attempts to prevent the courts from exercising their essential constitutional role of protecting the equal protection rights of minorities. According to the California Constitution, such radical changes to the organizing principles of state government cannot be made by simple majority vote through the initiative process, but instead must, at a minimum, go through the state legislature first."

If you go to singlemaltsilk's site you can find the actual link to the ACLU website.