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[hondovious]

Last night was great.  Obama won, McCain showed some of the man he used to be and maybe still is with his concession speech, and the GOP got their comeuppance.  Reading the aftermath today though, we have a long way to go, as many people had something much more important than who their next president is decided for them

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[feather_armor]

Wow. Let's take away one more chance for kids to get out of orphanages and foster care. Let's also make sure that all those unwanted kids get born!

Really disappointing. Especially California.

As you said though...gaining back some international respect is huge. How many times have you seen people around the world celebrating another country's election?

[hondovious]

The world is a better place when it has a country to look up to and be inspired by... how amazing it would be to deserve it again. As the man said, it cannot be made perfect but it can be perfected. Time to prove it.

[alkalinesky]

I seriously doubt the Supreme Court is going to uphold Prop 8.

But massive boos on California for passing it. It's the next front in civil rights.

[alkalinesky]

And I will say that Prop 8 was passed by dirty religious money and very misleading campaigning. It was a sham and a farce, and the no side took its failure for granted. It was as much a fault of shitty campaigning as it was a fundamental flaw in the population.

But, like I said, it will go down, eventually. You can't nullify marriages already granted. The legal challenges have already begun.

[hondovious]

I hope you are right.. I do not know how much the campaign was misleading, but it is sad if it was that people can be mislead so easily.

Do you think gays should be treated like second class citizens?
(Please check one)

A) Yes ____

B) No ____

[enkeli]

religion has a long history of distorting information. :)

[alkalinesky]

This was Mormon money, all the way. LDS has been planning this for over a decade. They distributed fliers to AA communities stating that Barack Obama supported the Amendment. A flat-out lie. Some people who thought they were voting no voted yes based on the lies and misinformation. It was a total boondoggle.