We'll drag this nation kicking and screaming into the 21st century yet!

Nov 05, 2008 00:50

At 11:00 tonight, I watched Barack Obama become the 44th President Elect of the United States of America, the first African American to do so. I wasn't really stressing this one at this point, but nevertheless actually breathed a sigh of relief. I feel a palpable weight of my shoulders, a feeling that things are actually going to get better after ( Read more... )

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jblum November 5 2008, 07:29:25 UTC
There is one upside to remember in the Proposition 8 debacle: we have entered an era where the conservative, fallback position espoused by the Republican presidential candidate is that gay couples should have civil partnerships which are legally equal to marriage, just not called marriages.

Look back and remember how insanely radically left-wing the idea of civil partnership was just fifteen years ago.

The country may be dragging its heels (and its knuckles) in the California and Arizona cases, but it still serves as a sign of how far we've come.

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matthewwolff November 5 2008, 14:35:35 UTC
You're right, of course. We have come a long way. It's just when you live in the "birth place of democracy," and most of the rest of the western world has already passed laws allowing flat out same sex marriage, it's hard to understand why the U.S. always seems to come last on civil rights. I just don't think this is an issue I can afford to be patient about.

BTW: John McCain does not feel that gay couples should have civil partnerships which are legally equal to marriage.
McCain supported a 2005 state initiative to "change Arizona's Constitution to ban gay marriages and deny government benefits to unmarried couples."
He has said: "...a lot of times it depends on what do you mean by gay union? Does it mean that they're able to enter into certain contracts, people have a partnership? I think so. But to give it the status of heterosexual marriage is not something that I would support ( ... )

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kateorman November 5 2008, 11:27:16 UTC
COUNTLESS QUANTITIES OF ASS: KICKED

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matthewwolff November 5 2008, 14:35:53 UTC
Thank you. :)

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