Prop 8 Fallout
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The results of the proposition 8 ballot in California hit the gay community hard. They had felt that they had taken a step towards equality by being given the right to marry, however, that right has now been taken away by a small majority. It seems that mormons and christians came together to pump money into the “yes” campaign and that this may have been the straw that broke the camels back.
So the community in California woke up one morning feeling a sense of disappointment, like a giant step backwards had been forced upon them. They have reacted in various ways. In Los Angeles, they have had massive protests against the mormons and in San Fransisco they have had a candlelight walk through the streets in an effort to comfort each other. Melissa Etheridge took a good stance saying that she’d no longer pay tax as she’s seen as a second class citizen. To date there have been three lawsuits challenging the outcome of the vote. Different methods of giving a similar message – we are disappointed but not beaten!
It’s tough for the rest of the world to take too. I know it doesn’t effect us directly but any decrease in gay rights around the world deflates us and makes us wonder if we’ll ever live to see the day that we are seen equally! This will hopefully only last a short time and I’m hoping that when the history books of the future are written, proposition 8 will go down as the catalyst to a great turning point in LGBTQ history, a time when people all over the world showed that we will keep going and will keep fighting for equality.
For information of Irisg organisations fighting for gay marraige, visit Marraige Equality and LGBT Noise.
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It’s ironic to me that, in an election that was seen as a huge step forward in terms of the visibility and power of minorities, that we’ve been smacked back a huge step.
I read an article which I’ll try to dig out, which said that the very people who Obama inspired to vote and who wouldn’t have thought to vote before, are those who lost us Prop 8.
Thanks for the comment HAL. I remember seeing something on that too but I couldn’t find it again. It’s annoying when domocracy comes up with somethig like that, you want everyone to vote but then you also want them to agree with you
It’s a step back but sometimes that can lead to a massive push forward
here it is:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3388430/Barack-Obama-may-have-helped-California-Proposition-8-gay-marriage-ban-pass.html
and http://www.slate.com/id/2203912/
and http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-voters-put-prop-8-over-top.html
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